Dodge 3/4 ton diesel truck - 38 MPG !!

Just saw this ad this morning. Must be quite a truck. My Dodge- Cummins with a five speed manual gets a best of 21 MPG with a wind at my back.

Here's the ad.

"I have a 93 dodge ram 250 with a 5.9 trbo des with a jasper auto trans with all the updates with over drive,,20 to 22 around town and 38 open road,,it has 314 thousen miles and 3 or 4 dents but runs and drives grate,Has new rad and 10 ply tires,needs e cables for Inspection,,,1450 CASH or trade for FARM equipment or tractor,,ok if thay need repair,,,607-532-9994,, "

I want some of what he's smokin.

Share with me to. B) LOL.

More likely miles per hour, not miles per gallon.

Could be a clever way of saying that the odometer is not working properly.

Downhill only.

My friends always get a lot better mileage than I do. I think it is a simple math problem

Figures don't lie , BUT liars figure. LOL

I know what he's doing,,, finding a Big HILL, and turning off the key,, then adding up the numbers when he's felling numb on drugs ..
yippy kaie Yah ----

I have had 4 dodge diesel and they all got fair
mileage and the one i have now will get 12 pulling
a 28ft trailer and 20 to 23 empty if every thing
is just right, but 38 is stretching it a little too far.

hEY PAT, Same with me and mileage. Also all my friends that were older in school are now younger than me. Don't believe it. Ask them. Dave

He's got some odometer troubles or some wildly high gearing in that truck.

Hey if your looking for another truck like one you already have I've got a '94 F250 7.3IDI Turbo, 4x4, 5 speed with only 145k, but it wont be as cheap as the Dodge in your post. It doesn't like this new low sulfur fuel the mileage has went to 16 and has a slight miss at idle if I dont keep some fuel treatment in it.

I've already got a 1994 F250 ex-cab, 4WD with the IDI 7.3 turbo-diesel. One of the last made before the Powerstroke took over. One is enough (along with my 92 Dodge). The Ford is a much fancier and nicer riding truck - but has never been good on fuel. Mine has the E40D and 4.10 axles. 16 MPG is about the best it's ever done, and 14.5 is the usual average.

Yeah thats the reason I've kept this one as long as I have, I can still work on this one I dont have to have a computer or electronics degree to do anything that needs doing to this truck.

Glad I bought this truck and got it paid for while diesel was still cheap. I drove a truck just like mine except with a 351 gasser and auto. for a former employer of mine it never got better than 10 and if it had a shirt-tail full of anything in the bed it was less than 8, never checked it pulling a trailer, glad he was buying the gas.

What kind of luck have you had with the E40D tranny in your truck?

Well, I bought the truck without much history on it. I'm in New York, but the truck was from Colorado (rust free). Has a goose-neck hitch and was used to pull a huge horse trailer all over the country. Held four horses plus sleeping chambers. Trans was slipping while the guy was here in New York and I bought it. It also kept going into computer-default shift-mode. The trans light came on and it would start shifting rock-hard. It had 210,000 miles on it then. I pulled it apart and found an aftermarket, dual-clutch HD lockup converter along with some other internal upgrades, so I know it'd been apart before. Other than that, most of the internals looked like new except for a worn pump and bushing. That, however led to a fiasco too long to detail - but nothing I can blame on Ford.

End result is - most of the original slipping was caused by the little variable-resistor switch that's attached to the injection pump. It sends a throttle-position signal for proper trans. shifting. NAPA # 2-29331 I bought a new switch for $40, adjusted it with an ohmeter, and all has been fine since. Shifts great and has never gone into default-shift mode again.

I like the truck. In fact, I was a Ford hater until I started driving it. Engine runs like a clock, just kind of fuel hog. My Dodge, a 92 ex-cab, 4WD with a five-speed manual, is better on hard pulling and on fuel - but rides like a Sherman tank when it's empty. So - I like them both for different reasons. Both very easy to work on compared to anything new.

Maybe that's per passenger.

Miliage on my truck is around 20 , exact same equipment ,,,Been toying with a 2 speed axle Idea , Should increase to hi 20s ,,,,,Maybe that's what the Guy did ! ,,

Somebody doesn't know how to divide the miles driven by the fuel used. That's most likely theoretically impossible in a real use situation. I suppose if you coasted down hill part of the time with the key off and did some of those kinds of things, you might be able to get higher mileage but not in real use.

Heck, I've got a '03 GMC K2500HD, 6L, auto w/od, 410 rear that gets 52 mpg.

MPG confirmed by 10 ft roll back on the dealers lot, gas consumption calculated and projected out to 100k miles. Engine wasn't running during the test.

Mileage dropped off to 14.5 mpg upon leaving dealer's lot. The tires must not be inflated correctly? Been 5 yrs, warranty has expired, can't find correct aftermarket air. Guess I'll have to live with it.

What a piece of junk American built trucks are. In 20 - 30 years this truck will be nearly worn out. Think I'll buy a rice burner next time, no more American (Mexico? - Canadian?) junk.

Joe

Could it have possibly been a misprint? Seems everyone is ready to shoot the guy, for possibly hitting the wrong key.

Probably has a metric speedometer in it. A K is about .62 miles. That would make it almost believable. Have a great weekend.

Sounds like the guy I used to work with his cars always got 20 to 27 MILES to GAL "big Fords & GM Cars" (In His Mind).