need help 100$ fillups every 2 weeks

[nosefirst]

"A Year ago At $1.20 A gallon commuting in a truck was reasonable. At $2.30-3.00 a gallon it is a waste of money and a 2nd car to commute will pay for itself a hundred times over.[/quote]


Get a Cummins and convert it to run on Vegtable oil. Then you go arround to the restraunts and get fuel for free.

In 98' when I went to V8's I new I could afford it even if gas went to European levels. I want power and protection, and I knew I'd be sacrificing fuel effeciancy.

[blue4X4]

Goingbig- Its as simple as a bicycle when it comes to gears. Take a 10 speed and shift to a lower gear ratio by going to a sprocket with less teeth on it, on the rear hub, and then for every time you peddel around once you will have gone further, and as I said with less RPM. Back to Bigd7315 problem this would help because the motor with a 3.73 gear compared to your suggested 4.56, the engine would only be doing 1800 RPM at 55MPH rathur then 2600-2800RPM at the same speed. The more Rounds the motor makes the more gas you will use to fire each piston more often each minute! In this example aproximately 800-1000 more times each piston must be fired each minute. Thus, a lot more gas used to travel the same distance of 55 miles in one hour.

Because he pulls heavy equiptment, he does not want to sacriffice the 4.10 gear that helps him on starts from a stop. I doubt he will want to go to a smaller gear ratio, but it WOULD help a lot.

Bigger tires-same principal, each time the axle goes around once the bigger tire will travel a couple inces or so(depending on tire diameter change)further.

I dont know a racer that uses a muffler. A quiet race car-that is a concept they researched. They still have backpressure because they have to have an exhaust manifold of some type. But they go with as big a diameter as they can. It increases hoursepower thus you get more power with less pedel. That is why it would help on gas milage.

[Repo_agent]

I am not sure which web site it is at but I have seen a gear ratio and tire size chart that tells you what the best gear ratio to use with your size tire. It was at an off road supply site like desertrat.com or 4x4wholesale.com When I find it I will be back. You will then have any gear ratio vs gas mileage question answered.

[Repo_agent]

Here is one. Isnt the one I was looking for but it will help anyone who wants to go bigger.

http://www.samsoffroad.com/samsoffro...RatioGuide.htm

[bigd7315]

I have 2 other cars a 92 sonoma w the 4.3 and a 92 camaro w the 5.0 so the other car thing is fine I am looking to get thid truck to get better mileage than it is now and more friendly for hauling cars across the country a propane kit is out I am gas only because the propane is scheduled to go up this month

[bigd7315]

I am looking at putting a spicer 6 speed in it does anyone think this will improve mileage and does anyone have a 5 speed dually gas to give me some figures on there mileage