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Well I've now had two fillups since doing the brake job In regular driving I went from averaging 10.81 mpg over 5 fillups to averaging 12.16 over 2 fillups if this stays consistent that works out to roughly an 11% increase and at the same time I got much better/safer braking. The pay back on that assuming prices remain the same is 7727 miles or roughly 2 years of driving at my current rate.
At the moment I don't have the money to replace the shocks which need done but I've heard that I will get a bit better mileage from them working better. Can anyone confirm this?
Also I still have the hangers for attaching a slide in camper sticking out under the truck. I'll remove them soonish and that should clean air flow up a bit. Maybe compensate for the steps I added so my wife could get in it.
The other thing I did part way through the last tank was I noticed 1 vacume hose disconnected and blocked under the hood. I put it back on and I found a larger line running the the charcoal canister disconnected and blocked. Someone in the past had been trying to remove the smog equipment without actually totally removing it. Reconnecting it resulted in no noticable difference powerwise and the mileage change was so small it could be one or two more stop signs vs the last trip.
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