After 3 days of dragging trees and logs up from the woods, stacking split wood to the hilt all the while in 4 low with the 98, I still managed 10.1 MPG's on the fill up with 89 Octane.
It's also been raining so I use the 98 for road traction with it's Mud Claws. K.

 

Sounds like fun why wasn't I invited?

 

^Anytime Ham Bone............I'll loan you a saw. K.

 

Got it and installed the new muffler today, need another length of pipe or shorten the test pipe I have in there for it to dump before the rear passenger tire, again. Or down pipe it, that sounds cheaper, lol.

The sound is nice at idle and pretty mellow than I was thinking while getting on it, which will hopefully keep me from mashing that go pedal

 

I had my 232,000 Laramie's transmission repaired. Was working beyond perfect then convertor started leaking the death. Repaired now onward faithful steed

 

No school till next Wednesday so I got started on the new exhaust. Got the jegs y pipe on and have the hooker maximum flow muffler and magnaflow tailpipe left.

 

The old truck got some new shoes today, a set of Michelin LTX M/S 2's. The Falken High Country AT's that came off were crap in under 25,000 miles. Heck, they were crap 10,000 miles ago, wearing unevenly and losing winter traction like it was good sense despite being constantly properly inflated and rotated at no more than 5,000 mile intervals. The Michelins ride nice, and having stepped back down to 245/75's they roll remarkably easier. It feels like the fuel economy must have just shot up, but only time and miles will tell.

 

Yesterday I made an adjuster nut preload wrench, 4.56 gears will be here next week.

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On Friday last week I drove the 96 down to the new farm. Sweet spot is perfectly at 65MPH. Got 16.8MPG when I was driving 65MPH steady for about 100 miles. At any other speed it got 11-12MPG.

Now that it's down in the mountains I can tell I really need to adjust timing and carb settings. Lol.

Edit: I forgot to say that it didn't give me even the slightest lick of trouble. Haha. Newer 09 had a fan clutch go out...

 

Fixed some kind of squeaky transmission linkage that was driving me crazy by spraying the **** out of it with PB Blasters ,high flash point, fast acting, formula with capillary action.