Re: Dodge/Cummins late model mileage

Posted by the tractor vet on March 30, 2007 at 07:40:14 from (75.19.126.101):

In Reply to: Dodge/Cummins late model mileage posted by fuel miser on March 30, 2007 at 07:18:47:

Well i owen a 95 Dodge 3500 4x4 and all my buddys owen later Dodge 3500 4x4's with the cummins and we all get between 14-18 mpg and a couple of them have spent the BIG bucks on the supposely up grades like the custom exhaust computer chips and being realistic after all the money spent all they did see was a power gain. As for milage increase nothing noticeable . When i got mine i bought it used and abused and she was getting around 10 and at the time i realy did not know much about that engine . So i started asken people that i knew about it , One guy was head service manager at the local Cummins shop and the other one was a guy that i know that owens Pittsburg Power or the old Diesel injection out of Pa. the renoned Cummins Hot Rod shop as Bruce and i go back a few Moons . On mine all i did was do a valve adjustment and reset the pump timeing and opened up the pump and increased the topend RPM to 3250 and i did gain 5 MPG and that is the best that it will do on a 4.10 gear . My one buddy has and 02 with the 3.54 gear with 5 speed the big exhaust the chip and a aluim. flatbed on his and he gets 17-18 , on a 3/4 ton being realistic with a 5-6 speed with the 3.54 gear well tuned ya may see in the 19-20 . As i said MAY see that. as for the extra cost of the diesel now today with the price of fuel running in the 2.70 -2.90 a gallon range about the same price of hightest gas compaired to a 3/4 ton gasser getting 13-15 on 87 octain at todays prices at the pump of in this area 2.699 you do the math . Oh BTW my Dodge diesel is setting and i have been driven and old junky 87 Ford ranger that gets 18-20 mpg on the cheap stuff .

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