Depending on the day.. it can range from 50s up here and 90s down where I work,
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6.2 What's it good for? Just about everything.
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My throttle springs are not that stiff? Or maybe I just have gotten used to it. But I jump back and forth from a 2012 Cummins , 98 Cummins , the burb , the crew cab , and the my 93 6.5 plow truck . All of the. Feel about the same to me
My floor is dented just in front of the pedal so it's not natural for the foot position.. maybe I should just hammer it out.
We came so close to 50 today. Course it's cloudy so it was 48 today. And it is still 46. I doubt we will get much lower than 40 tonight as long as the clouds stay
I must be a gorilla cause it's only tough to get it to kick the lockup out when I'm cruising.
Getting about 19.5 mpg it seems no matter what
Getting about 19.5 mpg it seems no matter what
Life could be so much worse than that mpg.. damn
The MPG's are what I love the most about these little motors .
It's allowed me to actually drive a square body GM again as a practical vehicle and not just a toy
It's allowed me to actually drive a square body GM again as a practical vehicle and not just a toy
I dd the cucv with the rubber overdrive. I am a bit irritated it won't start without glow plug use in mild weather. 55 degrees this morning and I'll have to cycle em. Sensitive.
I have to cycle mine too.. I jut wait now..
This is my alibi. If I were getting 15MPG (or less!) I would never get around to actually driving the beast.
I usually am DD'ing my 6.5, but it is loaded with the camper at the moment. Not that I can't drive it with it in there, I just choose not to. But I'm only squeezing 15-17mpgs from it, which is still better than my Jeep.
I do have a very heavy foot though...
I do have a very heavy foot though...
I watch my tach very closely on the highway.
Cruising 1800 and below yields 15 - 17 mpg depending on altitude and terrain, but if I want to go 65 and up, I'm running 2150+ and mpg drops to 14 - 16. I may experiment with different precups - I have the big turbo diamond cups, and am curious what the economy ones would do. The engine is also very sensitive to fuel timing and metering changes; small adjustments seem to yield outsized results.
Looking way down the line, there's enough gear and tire to run a GearVendors and have double OD, but it sure is expensive. Maybe a good deal will come along. Interestingly, just pumping up the 38s to 45psi also added about 1 mpg on the second extremely flat leg of our drive to Santa Fe.
David
Cruising 1800 and below yields 15 - 17 mpg depending on altitude and terrain, but if I want to go 65 and up, I'm running 2150+ and mpg drops to 14 - 16. I may experiment with different precups - I have the big turbo diamond cups, and am curious what the economy ones would do. The engine is also very sensitive to fuel timing and metering changes; small adjustments seem to yield outsized results.
Looking way down the line, there's enough gear and tire to run a GearVendors and have double OD, but it sure is expensive. Maybe a good deal will come along. Interestingly, just pumping up the 38s to 45psi also added about 1 mpg on the second extremely flat leg of our drive to Santa Fe.
David
So being that I am in a lifted CC with an SFA swap and 33's with 4.10 ratio, I'm really not doing too bad then.
Do you guys that are turbo find it hard to maintain the speed limit in overdrive?
It depends:
1. I don't usually do the speed limit.
B. If I have my kids with me, yes. Maintaining speeds is fine.
This is relative. Is your O/D still broken?
That's a really vague question. Driving down a 25MPH residential street I doubt any of us have problems.
I do a lot of my driving at 55MPH and <2000' elevation, that's the most common speed limit around here. Eric cruises at 80 up in the mountains. Aerodynamics and altitude take over, both power-wise and mileage-wise.
No. After the turbo, and with a carefully tuned 4th-unlock, I have no problem maintaining 65/70 in OD, which is my personal speed limit.
David
I'm not impressed for an unloaded, turbocharged 2WD rig with new injectors cruising @2000RPM. Your rig isn't *that* much heavier than the short-cab GMT400 rigs that I have driven. And your aerodynamics should be quite a bit better than my square brick.
But YMMV, there is no doubt. Maybe your foot is the problem. A Cherokee should be 17-20MPG according to the EPA.
