you be fine pulling small loads but put his 32' trailer with two rigs and wind drag and your ford might hurt with not having the gears. thats up to you. what are your egt's like pulling a small trailer?
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you be fine pulling small loads but put his 32' trailer with two rigs and wind drag and your ford might hurt with not having the gears. thats up to you. what are your egt's like pulling a small trailer?
I know I'll be fine with a 16 ft. People just can't get past the fact that I'm only doing this for a few years. I still have the 4.10s and I don't have access to a gooseneck anymore. I'm not going to be hauling any heavy loads and if I do I'll just avoid the rocky mountains because I hauled Tate's 7-8000 lb F-350 before any of my mods and I used overdrive the whole time except on TX 46 when it is slow (60 if you're lucky an no grandma's get in your way) and hilly. The only load overdrive ever struggled on was a large a/c that was 8 feet wide and 7 feet tall so it was a sail and I crossed the scale at 20,500 lbs. That was also before any mods.
I'll tell you what my EGTs are when I install the thermocouple! :eek: The guages have been in for 6 months or so and I just haven't hooked them up.
go for it then!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's already done. My mileage increased 2.25 on the first tank with 70% hw. It'll still take nearly two years to recover with fuel costs as they are now, so basically I'm going to break even in a little less than two years and if I have the change by then I'll get the overdrive unit and put the 4.10s back in. I don't need a new vehicle until I have kids, and who knows when that will be. I swear I'll get a noise reading today.
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are they actually measured in cubic millimeters?
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then it'll only take ten years to break even again...
My office is 51.4db :flipoff2:Quote:
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I'd get a noise reading from the honda, but I can't hear the engine when I am standing next to the exhaust pipe, and it gets 30 mpg :flipoff2: (this is fun)
fbronco: My office is 58 dB. I wonder if this Radio Shack thing is calibrated.
agjohn: I don't care about recovering after that. I'll have ten forward speeds, and 4.10s or 3.20s!
jimmy: My rig is not a real rig therefore it does not drive home therefore I need more than a honda. :flipoff2:
Chadnutz: Just doing my thing. Don't you think my new gears are cool? Why don't you people realize that I know what I'm doing? Why does anybody care what I post on the board!? What's the matter with you people!!!???
there...i fixed it for you...makes the thread more interesting... :gigem:Quote:
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Sure seems to me as though some people care a little too much. :flipoff2:Quote:
Originally Posted by uglyota
Eric - I Promise I Have No Issues. I Just Don't Like Small Cars. The Mustang Had Huge Long Doors (could Fix With A 4 Door), The Back Seat Was Virtually Useless For People, The Trunk Could Not Fit A Cooler In It, And I Am More Comfortable In A Truck (fullsize - Ie My Feet Do Not Extend Out In Front Of Me) If Anything I Would Pick Up A Little Ranger- Then I At Least Have The Bed. It Would Get Well Into The Twenties On The Highway Too I Bet.
I DON'T GIVE A **** ABOUT GAS MILEAGE, although I would like a longer range in the truck, but I could fix that w/ 100 gal of diesel in the bed
i'm going to put a 2wd tailhousing on the rover tranny and swap in a rear ford 9" axle so I can run 2.70 gears. That should pay for itself in the long run.
so you have a chip, bigger injectors, and you are about to install an egt and you are trying to save a few bucks on gas?
hey its chadnutz, hes dumb
My fuel mileage went down by 0% after adding that stuff. I guess since I dropped $155k on a house I should run a/c on 60 degrees even though the house is bigger than an apartment. I mean, why save money when I could have lived cheaper by renting. :rolleyes:Quote:
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I guess all those guys that drive corvettes should hammer down everywhere they go and burn gas like its going out of style too... Why conserve, anyway?
It's my truck. I'm saving 15% of my fuel costs. Sorry for sharing.
None of your logic makes sense. Everyone thinks I'll be lugging my truck and they don't know **** about my truck, what it can do, or what I'll ask it to do. No one knows anything about powerstrokes except that they suck, and everyone has their own opinion about what EVERYONE else should do. Keep your opinions to yourself. I didn't ask for them.
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unless you truely are a moron, you should have known exactly how this thread would turn out. you could cure cancer and post it up and you'd still get reamed.
on the other hand, if you'd bought a fuel efficient third car...
I think we have a new mazda thread!! Woo-Hoo!!!
I asked them to bring it back anyway.
Don't worry. I'm fixing to start another one.
that mazda thread had some good tech in it
my logic? i said nothing about wasting fuel, I'm talking about throwing good money after bad to save a few bucks at the pump.Quote:
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regearing couldn't have been free, and all the chip/hotrod stuff isn't. Maybe you are saving 15%, but how much is your time worth? Think that gears you setup yourself are as reliable as the factory pattern? I'm entitled to my opinion also, and that is that you will never come out ahead doing this.
Your logic sucks if you think I am talking about people with corvettes hammering it down all the time. Not sure where that even came up, but if you can afford a corvette, you can afford 3 bucks a gallon.
Conservation? petroleum fuel will be around forever, or at least long enough for any of us to be concerned with it.
And you can keep your house as cool as you want, not really relevant to this topic either.
You stated that I spent so much money on power upgrades that also help burn more fuel yet I want to save some... Well the power is there when I need it, just like a Corvette. I think that analogy is perfectly correct.
Ask me how much I paid for the injectors, the chip, the IDM, the guages and the exhaust... Shipping.
I had the gears installed. I didn't do them myself.
I got a quieter truck and 15% savings in fuel. I lost 4x4 that I haven't used in a while and didn't need when I used it and $800. The $800 will saved in time, as will my hearing. The 4wd will come back when I can afford an overdrive unit, and long before I need it again.
That is the end of me in this thread. Again, thanks for your input.
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id bet good money against this.
you just dont get it. its like deja vu everytime you start a thread. pathetically entertaining.
i was amazed how long it took to go to ****. more power to ya nutz, he likes his truck quieter - i can relate - i have a buddy who had 4.10s with his powerstroke and it was 4x2 (smaller tires) it got old having to almost yell. i better be careful or i might be siding with nutz here....
eh, I don't get why everyone's being an *******? He changed gears to get better gas mileage and save money (just like I bought a bike to save money, ha) and lower the noise in his cabin. If he likes it, whats the deal?
I know it's "chadnutz" and all, but atleast he isn't a douche.
"The deal" is that it obviously will take too long to break even monetarily to use that as justification. The noise excuse I can tolerate, but why go all the way down to 3.08's, as opposed to something "normal" for a 1 ton truck like 3.55's or 3.73's that you wont have to change later? The fact that it is only temporary is also retarded, he basically just flushed $800 down the ****ter in the long run, and thats alot of fuel.
does your truck never leave pavement. maybe the next gen. are considerably heavier, cause I would love to build a bagged 2wd ford drw, but my current truck seem like it just sinks any time its in the dirt. I use the 4x4 regularly at job sites and every one else I work with that has one does also.Quote:
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my old man just bought his first 4x4 - he has been in construction for 30+ years and never needed 4x4. the few times he has gotten stuck, he just borrowed a backhow and pulled himself out. its all about picking your route. you want access, not a bunch of rutted up muddy paths. as for why he got a 4x4, as he put it. "ah what the heck"
as a side note, he chose 3.55 gears for his mpg. really.
my dad also just got his first 4x4...2007 3500 Mega cab with cummins and auto...said he needed more then the expedition to tow the irrigation trailer on occasion :rolleyes: the reason for 4x4 was much like that of seth's dad..."it looks better"...the most dirt this thing will see is going to come from airborn dust from irrigation jobs
Ok, here is my $0.02. If it was a perfect world, my stroker would have had 3.73 and 6spd in it when I bought it and an underdrive for those big loads, but it doesn't. The 4.10 / 5spd auto combo is great, but it could be so much better. With the amount of time I have at the house, I can not see any advantage in changing out the gears in it, so I will stick with what I have and decide if the next vehicle purchase will come from the factory with the 10 spd and georgia overdrive, or a 3/4 tonn cheby duramaxxer. I will be having the egt sensor installed before I get home though, I do not want to have to put a new turbo on again. I haven't done the math, but the 35's on it now ought to put me close to the 3.73 now, but not for sure (as I don't remember what came on it, 245's i think).
I want to be like chadnutz
My Dodge did pretty good up to CO and back earlier this month - sorry, don't have time to catch up on this thread...
I run about 1900 rpms in fifth @ 75
that's about 2400 in 4th
When I dropped down below 65mph on uphill climbs, I shifted to 4th so I don't lug the engine too much - it keeps the rpms around 2000.
pull both the patrol and the jeep? Know what the avg. mpg was?Quote:
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yep,Quote:
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I have all the receipts but haven't had time to average them all together. One tank I got 10.5, but most were around 9mpg
Anyone seen this?
http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_...earth/me3.html
Also cool: http://www.biodieselwarehouse.com/
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Yep. I would say I use mine regularly. More than once a month.
I averaged 11 MPG and some change on our CO trip. Mine seems to drop off sharply under any kind of load. Maybe part of the auto tranny. I've gotten 19.5 MPG on a 8 hour trip to S. Padre two years ago. Whitney's Dad was driving. I never get quite that good, coulid it be my driving style? Nahh. :D
One more: http://www.goldenfuelsystems.com/
Where would one get a lot of veggie oil?
I used 4wd three times in CO pulling my trailer - kind of a must have thing for my tow-rig