New Truck
Posting Guru
Joined: Apr 2009
Posts: 2,447
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From: Northern Idaho
Oh! I gotta, I just gotta!!!
OK, just so you know there are lots of possibilities with these trucks, lots of power, lots of options, ect.
Anyhow, recently I ran from Seattle to my parents place, about 367 miles and got 23.5 mpg going 68 mph @ 2K RPM. From reading everyone's posts on here I have learned that 2K is the optimum cruising RPM and 2.3K is for power at high speed.
Anyhow, I just wanted to throw that out there
Edit: Oh, and BTW, on the new truck, YOU SUCK! yet, NICE FIND
Wish I had a truck with so few miles on it but none the less I VERY much enjoy my truck. 190K and ready for the big load!
Next weekend will be pulling my dad's 7K lbs boat out to Montana to do some fishing and camping. I make him jealous because his gasser will use about 76 gallons (Ford 460 1 Ton) and I use about 20 for the same trip!!!!
Enjoy your truck man and post those pics! We love to drool over each other's trucks.
OK, just so you know there are lots of possibilities with these trucks, lots of power, lots of options, ect.
Anyhow, recently I ran from Seattle to my parents place, about 367 miles and got 23.5 mpg going 68 mph @ 2K RPM. From reading everyone's posts on here I have learned that 2K is the optimum cruising RPM and 2.3K is for power at high speed.
Anyhow, I just wanted to throw that out there
Edit: Oh, and BTW, on the new truck, YOU SUCK! yet, NICE FIND
Wish I had a truck with so few miles on it but none the less I VERY much enjoy my truck. 190K and ready for the big load!
Next weekend will be pulling my dad's 7K lbs boat out to Montana to do some fishing and camping. I make him jealous because his gasser will use about 76 gallons (Ford 460 1 Ton) and I use about 20 for the same trip!!!!
Enjoy your truck man and post those pics! We love to drool over each other's trucks.
Hotshot
Joined: Jul 2003
Posts: 12,177
Likes: 40
From: Newport, WA
18mpg... somebody kill me now. I don't know what I'm getting, but I'll bet even with my DP its not 18. If I wasn't so broke, I'd top off the fuel tank and do some mileage checking just to be sure.
Hotshot
Joined: Jul 2003
Posts: 12,177
Likes: 40
From: Newport, WA
And when I'm full, I'm usually hauling something heavy.
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When anyone in my family speaks of a vehicle they'd like to buy, its sort of an inside joke for someone else to say "somewhere, some old man has one in his garage and it only comes out twice a year". Haha..well..turns out that old man really exists. Nice find!
Oh and congrats and welcome to FTE!