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Originally Posted by slowmover
So, while it's always a pleasure to see a guy get 20-mpg in a pickemup (an impossibility in the years I was growing up, it still astounds me) and I pass along my congratulations to you, I'd be mighty careful about gearing/tire-height/load capacity changes.
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I once had a 1955 Ford 1/2 ton six cylinder that would get 20 MPG. The king pins were worn so bad that it could not be driven over 50 MPH and the engine was so loose that it rattled until the oil pressure came up.
I also had a mid 70's Ford 1/2 ton that got 20 MPG. That one had a small block V8 and three on the tree. I wondered why the engine rattled until I dropped the pan and found a handfull of piston skirts laying in the sludge. I assume that losing half of each piston had something to do with reducing friction, which would at least partly explain the good mileage.