Lost the old rig time to rebuild
We are moving from a Ram 5500 to a F350. Insurance was too high on the "commercial truck" Considering a Gas over Diesel. More payload would be nice and the savings of a Gas vehicle over diesel is no...
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haha, the speed limit is only 60mph for most of BC (coq is 70) so its not a strech to only do 55 when your twisting around and climbing mountians.
it has always gotten deicent milage stock it got 18.3 mpg (US) going to work and back, my buddies were all averaging about the same. after I tuned it that dropped to 21.3 mpg (US) and when I do the delete I expect about 23MPG or better but thats just guessing. that is driving at 70 Mph to work and back average. I think my best run empty since it was tunes was driving to edmonton and back doing the speed limit and I got 23.5mpg US.
maybe our fuel is just better up here, I know it has more lubracation in it, which is why our cp4 failure rate is the same as england at less than 1% where the failure rate in the US is over 7%.
I always get better gas mileage (I have a gasser) when traveling through Canada to/from Alaska that I can't explain. The slower speed helps, but I've always wondered what is different in the gas, no ethanol maybe?
Our ram had LS suspension and it was a game changer, from leveling at the camp site, to smoothing out the road either loaded or unloaded. Night and day difference.
liquid springs are the last thing you want. check it out they are having lots of issues, stranded truck needing to be flatbeded home and so on.. put the camper on before you thing you need to upgrade anything and see how it is.
Yes a pickup. Found a platinum without a moon roof. Rides like a truck, needs liquid spring to smooth it out.
Congrats on the new rig!
450 Pickup I presume? Those are badass!
As of 10 years ago when we lived in AK, there was no corn laced fuel available. Which I’m sure you know. Idk about now though.
Your mileage bump is due to the lower avg speed. Frost heaves net better mpg while blowing shocks and breaking springs!we have ethanol in about everything now.. if you buy 94 octain from some places you can still find no ethanol. speed is huge once you get over 50-55mph. even in my new little Bronco sport, well I have had it for over a year now so not so new haha, but if I drive to work and back at 55mph I will be at 6.8L/100km which is 34.6mpg US, if I drive 70 (120kph) which is the speed limit on that road and 65 on the other road, then my milage drops to 29.5ish mpg US.
now take a truck with a camper and you are adding a huge increase to the frontal area, mine is old so the cab over isn't near as tall as the new ones, but it still adds to the wind resistance you are fighting as you drive. Also wind resistance is a fun one because it increase with the square of the vehicles speed. so if you double your speed the wind resistance is 4 times more, so lower speed it isn't a huge factor but once you get over say 50mph it becomes an issue real fast.
some stats I looked up years ago when I was first trying to learn about how wind resistance affects fuel milage are quite interesting.
so driving at 70mph uses up to 9% more fuel than driving at 60mph, and driving at 80mph uses up to 25% more fule than driving at 70mph. so you can imagin even chaning from 50 to 60 mph would be a noticable difference. it also afects the amount of horse power needed to maintain that speed.
so the lower speed up here maybe combined with different directions of prevailing winds could make a huge difference in fule milage, especialy with the increased frontal area.
Picked up our new F450. First 200 mile trip at 75mph got 17mpg. Thats empty. I know loaded we will get around 8 to 12 depending on wind and terrain. So nice to be back in the roomy cab of a Ford superduty. The ram was nice, but passenger foot space was limited due to the transmission hump.
