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Fill it absolutely full. Drive it. Fill it absolutely full (NOT to pump cutoff!!). Do the math. Forget the O/H console -- it's only a reference. They're not accurate enough to be meaningful.
Fill up your truck, set your trip meter to zero. Drive. Fill it up again. Divide the miles driven by gallons you put in on the second fill up. miles/gallons used = mpg
1.9 mpg would be less than 50 miles on a tank. i can certainly pull off 2 mpg, but either my tires, my transmisson, or my motor would be gone by the end of the day.
if it turns out you are actually getting 2 mpg, something is seriously wrong.