I agree with Jason here, I get weary with everyone whining about gas on these trucks.... Either realize the last of Jason's quote here or SHUT UP! If you are using these trucks for a D/D get ready for a hammering to the wallet PERIOD. I personally knew what I was getting into when I bought mine, did i see $4 gallon gas...no. Whatever the reason for $4 gallon gas, its now reality and probably permanent. So now you cant give these trucks away. My advice is do what I did, buy you a cheap beater like a nissan sentra for about 2 grand for work or whatever and GET OVER IT!

 

I dont mean to jack this thread but this statement rasied a fewquestions for me. With bigger tires your not getting correct milage right? So you odometer would be notdisplayingcorrect miles? So say the truck has had 35's on it for 8 out of its 11 years with no correction, would that mean the milage shown is too low or too high?

 

Yeah but we really don't get that either. These trucks don't have a ton of hp and aren't super strong. Look at all the transmission and rear end problems they have.

 

these trucks are pretty strong, compare it to a ford or chevy of the same year, our trucks will out pull both of them, and not only will they do that they wont over heat trying to do that, unless you live down here in florida cause then everything overheats

 

I don't know about the same year but my uncle had a Chevy Suburban that was a 02 and had a 5.3L and it felt like it was a fair amount faster than my 5.9L. Another buddy has a 04 Chevy with a 6.0L and it's only .1L bigger and it's amazing how much faster. According to the dyno charts Hypertech shows over 100hp more stock.

 

One thing I've noticed after owning my 2000 Ram 2500 quad cab for 6 years is the mileage increase if I stay just under 65mph..about 2000 rpm. Anything over that and I can hear a sucking sound from the gas tank. But I still love my truck anyway.

 

You have to remember though that those 5.3L and 6.0L engines were designed at least a few (if not several) years after our 5.9L was. And that Chevrolet/GMC goes for speed/performance and not reliability. There's a reason (besides gas prices) that I see tons of Chevrolet trucks in used dealership lots and very few Dodges.

 

I wasn't looking for a few of you to be smart ***' and tell me it's a truck and get use to it. NO ****!! I already knew that, I just know that the truck was getting MUCH better mileage before now. I know it's going to use more then our 6 banger car and wasn't built to get the same kind of gas mileage. I was just hoping that someway I can get it back to the mileage it use to get.

Now with it having the 265's and not the 245's to my knowledge the 265's are and option and would be the same on the speedo. This was the tire size on it when I bought it, so I just stayed with the same.

I replaced the O2 sensor just a couple of weeks ago and when I checked the mileage it was coming back at 14mph HIGHWAY. All my miles that I have stated are HIGHWAY and NOT city as all my driving is about 98% highway.

Now a couple of you mentioned "plenum repair." What is that? I may already know but having a brain fart here, so please enlighten me.

I'm a truck/semi driver so I tend to drive 5mph over the limit on a regular basis. Maybe the key is to slow down a tad bit too, but that's a hard thing to do. Maybe someday GREED won't keep the crude oil prices going up, up, and away!

And again of course I knew when I bought the truck it was going to cost me more for gas. That's common sense. I was a mechanic in the Army and managed auto oil/tire centers for many years, so I do know these things. My ONLY thing was to get back to the MPG that I got with it a year ago, and it's that simple!

 

Duckhtn, get a motorcycle!!!! When the weather is beautifulride then drive the Rammie during the winter and rain. I still have the same amount of gasoline in the truck that I started with last week. I put over 120 mi on the bike.

 

Yes, drive a motorcycle.

Oh, and don't forget to make sure you're an organ donor...