Ford 7.3L GASSER rumor confirmed

Cummins12V98 wrote:
"Wow 9 mpg towing 6K, I get 12 mpg towing 12.5K."

I only get 9 hand calc AVERAGE over thousands of miles towing a combined 33k. When I add my MC trailer and two Cruisers I am knocked down to 8.75. Maybe one of them new fangled gassers would do better???

BTW his second gen Cummins with a stick is about the most fuel effect vehicle out there.

My 98 12V would get in the high 22's when I was commuting 100 miles each way, hand calc. Reason it was not better was it was an auto. I logged many thousands of miles with that truck towing a combined 20k+ at around 11mpg.

You guys realize that was the mileage coming out of my 5.3 Silvy, right?
And to be fair I drive it like a Rental!
I did manage to pull down about 7 mpg according to the dic on my Diesel this summer.
TC on the back, boat in tow, westbound into a nasty headwind cruise on 70 sure burned some dinosaurs!

Regardless of whatever claims are made (some true, some not) no one else knows the actual conditions the claim was made in, but 1 thing is for sure. Diesels get roughly the same difference in mileage as the fuel has in btu content for the same set of conditions once you start working them.