Posted by Mark - IN. on September 21, 2012 at 19:05:01 from (50.121.19.81):
In Reply to: o/t Jeep Wrangler 4.0 posted by bill from scotland on September 21, 2012 at 14:37:37:
Pretty lousy fuel economy. I picked a 2001 up a year or so ago, the barn jeep. My dogs adopted it. 4.0 automatic. It goes places in the snow without a doubt, and I have a sister that works nights at a hospital about 20 miles away in the Lake Michigan snow effect area that I loaaned it to last winter and will this winter as well, because she can store her car for the winter and know that it will get her there safely with its on the fly front end engagement, but it is really lousy on fuel economy. I am honestly thinking of putting a 3.9 V6 in it, which was an option that I hear isn't as powerful or as torquey as the inline six 4.0 (think 258 CID?), but is better on fuel, and then taking that 4.0 down to the barn and mating it to a generator head that I hope not to need too often.
The wrangler was bread and butter, but reliable. I think on the highway though, I got about 18 MPG in 2H when I drove it a few hundred miles. That was highway. My full size Cummins Dodges get 20 or 21. I run premium in the jeep, which is as expensive as diesel, so the Cummins save me money.
Good luck in your decision. My lab and golden love their jeep. Someone says "Jeep", and out the door to the barn they go, tails wagging.
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