I totally agree, hell when I am trying to baby my truck I shift at like
3500RPM... My normal shift point is a hair over 4k and up over 5k when i am
on it... but hey to each his own...
Chris
>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!
> >
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