So after we got the Expo I pretty much drove it instead of the Ram, or rode in with a friend, lately been in the Ram between 2 to 3 days a week, and man, the MPG's are terrible!

I've also noticed that despite everything I can find telling me the gas tank in the Expo is 28 Gallons and the gas tank in my truck is 26 Gallons it always costs more to fill up the Ram....

 

I've been driving mine to work this week and I can feel you. 30 mile round trip... 5 miles per gallon. That is with a 15 minute warm up on the morning, and 5 to 10 minutes in the afternoon. Funny thing about mine though, it uses about the same amount of gas for a single trip to work as it does to drive 90 miles to the closest "big" town.

 

5 miles per gallon? That's terrible....... Something is seriously awry there... Unless you have two tons of dirt in the bed?

 

So, my brakes got super touchy out of the blue and are way easy to lock up, and now they sqeak coming to a stop. Hmmmmmm so I guess I'll be doing brakes ontop of front u joints, my transmission now also revs higher in first then drops down into second, and jts not a TV cable issue that I know of because I adjusted it and put about 100 miles on it before it started this

 

This poor old 360 has some issues. It was rebuilt by a kid in high school before I bought it. I wound up using the truck on the farm I was working on, so it received plenty of abuse there. While using for the farm, pulling a heavy trailer with seed or empty on 20ish miles of dirt road, the breather hose got a big crack close to the CAI top hat that I didn't see.
I finally found it because of idle issues. I fixed the hose, but the motor had already been sanded. On top of this, the plenum had blown out which caused plugged cats... 3 to be precise before I figured out the culprit. This in turn carboned the rings in #8 cylinder, and probably cracked the heads. So now after beating this poor thing for several years I have a motor that acts like it has 200k miles on it, with a dead hole, at anything below 3,000 rpm.
This is why I'm building the 408. The current motor needs to be put out to pasture.

 

Ok, I can see how that might happen.

"You may eat a peck of dirt in your lifetime, but, only a cupful will ruin your engine."

Don't recall where I read that....

 

custom fit seat covers I ordered last month arrived.. look great and hope to install them by end of the month, need headliner done first and I don't want them crawling around on the new covers while working.. also have a new carpet that came with the truck I want to install

 

made appt for the headliner repair Firday, $250 which I don't think is a bad price.. they will pull it down clean all glue and recover.. I requested the factory style material
will be done Friday morning

 

Lon ride!

 

Sure seems like a FLAT ride to me.