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Gas Mileage is killing me....

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Old 05-09-2011, 07:31 PM
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BTW, my truck is the offroad package with 4.10s. It gets about 10.8 around town.
 
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Old 05-09-2011, 09:58 PM
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Seems to me that about a year ago on Xtreme 4x4, Ian run thru a 96 Dodge p/u with crummy mileage and got good results by cleaning out the crap from the cab/bed. 300lbs worth. Air up the tires to spec. Use a vaccum gauge and drove like there was an egg between his foot and the throttle.

Now that said, my own truck the way I use it, is around 11mpg town and 15 maybe on the highway. I don't drive it that much either. Nothing to go thru $40 bucks worth of gas a night pushing sprint cars.
Run my diesel as a DD instead...about 18 to 22 mpg with it.

New spark plugs will be good, I just use the Champions or what ever Newfie Speed and Sport has on sale. My buddy put in E3's in his Dakota, was alot poorer and no increase in mileage.

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Old 05-09-2011, 10:15 PM
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I don't even know what's wrong with my truck. I'm usually easy on my truck. I drive about 100 miles a day. I put 60 in it today and it went from about F to half. I'm getting like.. 7-9 mpg. It sucks.
 
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Old 05-09-2011, 10:22 PM
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Originally Posted by SweetTooth
I don't even know what's wrong with my truck. I'm usually easy on my truck. I drive about 100 miles a day. I put 60 in it today and it went from about F to half. I'm getting like.. 7-9 mpg. It sucks.
I'm going to respond with the obligatory comment: check you plenum. Look at the top sticky on this forum for more info.
 
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Old 05-12-2011, 04:47 PM
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my 04 dodge ram 3.7 5 speed gets around 24-26 MPG my 03 4 door 5.9 auto gets around 7-10 MPG
 



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