I'm curious. Where you driving the the O/T on or off?
I've a 2000 QC with the 4.7L and I'm not getting anything better than about
20-21 mpg on long road trips like that.
Have you done anything to help increase the gas mileage?
Jeffrey Wilson
>From: "Will Coughlin" <willcoughlin@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
>To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
>Subject: DML: 4.7L Mileage
>Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 23:35:04 CST
>
>Ok you guys that didn't believe me, My overhead computer was a little off,
>but not much.I checked my mileage by doing the following: Sunday,I left
>home
>on my way back to school&stopped to fill up.Reset the trip odometer,pumped
>the tank plum full of gas(all the way up the tube).Left the gas
>station,drove to school-90 mi.Got to school,shut truck down.Didn't move the
>truck all week(as usual).Today,friday,cranked the truck up and allowed it
>to
>warm up while loading up,left school and drove the same 90 miles back to
>the
>same gas station.checked trip odometer-179.6 mi.pumped gas until tank plum
>full,all the way up the tube.checked gallon meter on pump,6.51xxx
>gallons,or
>6.5 gallons.Did the math,got 27.63xxx mpg!!!.So, I am not actually getting
>29 mpg, but I think it's doing pretty darn good for a V-8! Hope this clears
>up some speculations and doubts.
>
>Will Coughlin willcoughlin@hotmail.com
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