Bio Diesel VS Diesel
Just finished a 3500 mile trip across some of the most beautiful and rugged roads in the lower 48. Colorado Utah Arizona Idaho California and Oregon. Spent a month and a half on the road and came away...
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Airstreamer67 wrote:LarryJM wrote:valhalla360 wrote:
As someone else said, the math doesn't work. Something else was going on. You are showing upwards of a 30% loss in efficency with only 20% biodiesel.
I agree and furthermore if the OP is getting 12.8 towing then he has the one in a million 7.3L out there since to break 11 to 11.5 is an exception rather than normal for a 7.3L towing. A real issue with the 7.3L platforms is getting a good fill up because of the way the tanks are vented. From first shut off I can get almost 4.5 gal more in my tank before it is totally full and all the air and foam is out.
Larry
My 1996 7.3L F250 with an automatic tranny and 3.55 differential easily beats that. I regularly tow my travel trailer at 60 mph and record a consistent 14 mpg average, and it has done so since I bought it 19 years ago. Without a tow, I get 23 at 60 mph and 21 at 70. Perhaps the vans don't do as well.
Wow Larry Looks like me and Mike are the only guys on the planet getting over 12 with a 7.3.:B If I was one in a million that would make Mike two in a million I wonder how many of those 7.3 were sold? Maybe it makes us two in two million.. Hell I am buying a lottery ticket tomorrow. But you are correct about the very hard to fill fuel tank. That's why I put in an auxiliary fuel tank that holds 35 gallons and rarely use the main tank at all.
