I had figured the weight would affect it some, but I thought I might break
even with the mods, I guess that is what I get for thinking!?;-) Like Ray
said though, I do find myself listening to that exhaust tune a lot, so I may
be riding her a little harder than I realize!!! I would say with the weight
you put in you will notice a big change! Maybe you could add an extra fuel
tank as part of that weight and kill 2 birds with one stone! Of course if
you are using it too fast the 2 birds might get you!!8-]!!!John
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net]On Behalf Of Terrible
Tom
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 2:54 PM
To: dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net
Subject: Re: DML: Fuel mileage question
I would suspect the weight in the truck would be the leading culprit out
of all the other things you mentioned. Some place I remember reading
that for every few hundrid LBs weight you add, you could expect to see
something around a 1 MPG drop. I can't confirm that but I know I read
it in some manual somewhere. (I think that refered to payload and not
trailor towing)
I just dropped 480 LBs into the bed of my Dak (going to up it to 600)
for the snow plow counter weight. And I just filled the gas tank up on
the same night - - should result in some interesting MPG nubers.
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