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From: "ronald bruce taylor,jr" <taylor9565@msn.com>
To: <dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net>
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 9:44 AM
Subject: DML: Re: Re: 4 banger gas milage?
>
> The earlier GEN-II Dakota 4 cyl/5spd trucks used a Mitsubishi engine,
> typically those were pretty good for 18-22 mpg depending on if it saw city
> or highway driving........
I've never seen anything mitsu related under the hood of the Daks.. The 2.2
from '87 and the 2.5 from 88-95 was all Ma Mopar, when the Daks came out
Mitsu was supplying Dodge with a 2.6L for the cars, but that never made it's
way to the Daks, only in the D50's.
>
> The 96' models got the 2.5 Magnum 4cyl/5spd which typically got really
good
> mileage.....the 96'I had got between 18-24 to a gallon and I had driven it
> some 400 miles on a tank full and on a long turnpike trip it got close to
> 500 miles on a tank of gas.
> Ron-
> 01'Dakota Sport 3.9 4WD
> Street,Strip,and Show!
>
The '96 motor is the 2.5L from the Jeep Wranglers, they dropped the OHC to
go back to a OHV, I believe the Jeep motor had a better torque curve than
the actual Dodge motor, just not as good of performance as the earlier
motors.
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