Have been driving my new 2001 Ram1500, 5.9L for few weeks now, and loving it. It has some many options from leather heated seats to steering wheel stereo control *****. Took it to the river and played in the sand little bit. NICE. That is my first full size 4x4 pickup, and I want to keep it for a while.
It is a big truck, and obviously MPG suck on it, around 10 MPG even driving like a grandma. I have read about several improvements that can be done to the truck to get better fuel efficiency and will try it.
I will probably have tons of questions for all you Ram owners, since I am a newbee to this big truck scene.

 

Welcome to the Dodge club! I wish I had leather and steering wheel stereo control ***** in my truck...maybe one day I'll have them.

Getting good mileage out of these things can be hard, but a cold air intake, free flowing exhaust, and a tonnuea (sp?) cover of some sort will help. Also, adding about 2-3 oz. of acetone to every 10 gallons will help.

 

welcome to the club. *secret handshake* Dude, It sounds like we are gonna have to trade trucks. I want leather and steering wheel controls. Any questions you have, we'd be glad to help you with. I am sorta a newb too though.

 

you might want to read thru this post 1st...

http://www.dodgetrucks.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=63390

seems the acetone doesnt work for everyone...

Any mod that helps low end torque will help with your mpg... welcome to DF...! have we seen pics of your truck yet?

 

Welcome!!! I just got my ram in January. It is my first truck as well and I don't know why I never had one before. I love this thing. The streering wheel controls are preety cool huh! I did't even know they were there untill a week after I bought it. My truck is a whole lot of fun though. If you have any qeustion feel free. There are a whole lot of really cool people on here that know what they are talking about. Welcome to the club!!!

 

Welcome to the club......There is so much good information here sometimes its almost too much. My suggestion is read everything twice and figure what is the best path for you. And damn I want steering wheel controls....but noooo leather have way way too many burns on the back of my legs from tx heat on my wifes suburban that has leather.....Enjoy

 

hey, [sm=welcomesign.gif], I agree with steve, anything that will help low end will help. im guessing you have the 5.9 ?

oh never mind, maybe if i read. sorry long night.

 

Welcome to the club man, yea you should be able to get better than 10mpg cause I have a 5.9 with 35's on it and I get 10.5-11 around town. Feel free to ask any questions!!

 

Thanks for the welcomes.
The tires that I got, are 285/75/16, and yesterday I found out that my speedo is about 15-20 % off. There fore my MPG should go from
10-11 MPG to 12-13 MPG. YEA..