Wind deflectors
This is slightly stealing from the TT section, but was just wondering from those of you who pull using a roof mounted wind deflector on your truck. Do you see any significant gains in fuel mileage?
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fj12ryder wrote:
I would imagine it would take a lot of miles to ever recoup the price paid for the wind deflector.
I guess it would depend on what you are paying. I made mine out of scrap aluminum and plexi-glass (pic on profile). It cost me less than $50 and installs in about 20 minutes. I'm convinced that the side deflectors help a lot. When I see one of those large flat deflectors mounted on the roof of a long bed p/u and look at the distance back to the fw it just doesn't make sense.
I have a short bed non-sliding hitch with a revolution pin box. The trouble is that its a pain to hitch up with the wedge and I have gone back to using hitch the conventional way. This cuts down on the turning radius and for short trips I have been leaving the deflector off.
All one has to do is look at the front of the fw that is exposed to the wind and you realize that the top is not the only area that is dragging in the wind.
