I can tell ya this, the 88 F350 4X4 that i had did a great job on towing once we got the bugs worked out of it but that took five computer changes and i was using a computer from a 92 . The trck was a cab and chassi i built a 9 foot steel flat bed with a wood floor for it and built in every hitch you could think of even one for off set towing of hay bines and corn pickers balers . It had 4.10 gears with a 5 speed . I use to deal in used farm equipment and i was on the road atleast once a week to sales in Indiana or Ill. Some weeks i was changing oil in the truck twice with the miles i was running . Fuel mileage was always recorded for each trip . Empty truck no trailer she avg. 14 , with trailer 12-13 loaded 9-12 depending on what was on the deck.The worst she ever got was on a load i brought out of Plymouth ind. , it was a E gleaner with corn head and a 10 foot header . Loaded the header over the goose neck as the corn head was on the combine and then drove the combine on the trailer and tucked the corn head up under the grain head . There was a really stiff wind blowing out of the east that evening and when i pulled out of the sale lot i could not believe how hard it was pulling across U S 30 , I could hardly get to 60 mph with my foot to the floor . Both tanks were full and she was eating gas . She sucked down both tanks before i got to the east side of Ft. Wayne . Pulled into a small fuel stop to feed the beast and she took 35.8 gallons on a 36 gallon system . Started thinking that hey i doubt that i would make Beaver Dam sucking fuel like that . So just for the heck of it i unloaded the combine and backed on and chained her down and took off . That made all the difference in the world as how it pulled and the next stop for fuel was Canton . Now the other thing was that i had done some work on the 460 that shell we say did not meet the EPA guidelines . Like i had changed the cam timing back to 69-70 spec.'s and i ran the total ing. timing advance at 36 degrees at 2000 and i also ran high test . I never towed in 5th when loaded and tryed to keep engine rpm at between 32 and 3400 rpm . I now have a 95 Dodge 3500 4X4 with a 12 valve Cummings with 4.10 gears (bad choice for gears ) and i can tell ya that on a good day empty truck running around empty the BEST she has ever seen has been 14 MPG. I can also tell ya this a couple weeks ago was the first time i have ever towed with this truck and we used her to haul fertilizer a 26 mile round trip and hauled five rounds at around 12000 lbs each load and sucked up 32 gallon of fuel . My buddy's 2001 Dodge 3500 4X4 cab and chassi with a 9 foot aluim. flat with 3.54 gears and a 5 speed with his big free flowing exhaust and his CHIP get on the avg. of 16and maybe 17 mpg. Then old 460 took six qt. of oil per change and a three dollar filter the Cummings takes 10 qt. and a eight dollar filter and a 23 dollar fuel filter Diesel is 3.89 here and hightest here wright now 3.49 . The old Ford took one battery and the Dodge takes two . Now when i bought the Dodge Diesel was less then gas BUT NOT NO MORE. Been thinking real hard about selling off the Goat . The longer i keep it the more i find that i do not like about it .
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