Re: Re: I made it!

From: jay & dana (jay&dana@telus.net)
Date: Tue Dec 19 2000 - 20:21:13 EST


Will

How can you drive that distance and keep the truck under 2000 RPM? And why?
Haven't you ever heard about blowing the carbon out of it? I know your
truck is new but bringing it up to at least 3500 RPM won't hurt it! Just
curious.

TTYL
Jay

-----Original Message-----
From: Will Coughlin <willcoughlin@hotmail.com>
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Date: Monday, December 18, 2000 10:17 PM
Subject: Re: DML: Re: I made it!

>Tom, I don't know if you've seen my previous posts about my mileage
>figures,but in the summer/fall driving back and forth to college I was able
>to manage 27.6 mpg out of it.All I have done to help the gas mileage,which
I
>thought was pretty impressive stock, is add my hard bedcover,a K&N drop-in
>filter,and a 2-chamber flowmaster dual oulet muffler.Oh yeah and I keep my
>foot way out of it! I drove 14hrs/700 miles yesterday and the motor never
>once got to 2000 rpm.Oh, and it wasn't shut off at anytime during the trip
>either.The 4.7L ran great all day!
>
>Will Coughlin willcoughlin@hotmail.com
>'00 reg.cab,2wd,4.7L/hd5-spd/3.92sg(9.25")
>http://www.geocities.com/willcoughlin/index.html
>
>----Original Message Follows----
>From: "Tom (Silver89)" <SilverEightynine@aol.com>
>Reply-To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
>To: dakota-truck-moderator@twisted.twistedbits.net
>Subject: Re: DML: Re: I made it!
>Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 23:24:43 -0600
>
>26 MPG?????? HOW in blue blazes did you manage THAT??
>
>
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