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Old 10-15-2008, 02:10 PM   #22 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by 95badbird View Post

I would highly NOT suggest lowering the 4x4.
get rid of it, and get a 2wd.
That's not an option. This truck was a gift from my dad and was purchased from a company auction for $1500. I was disabled by cancer in 2001 and my total income is $697 a month. While we have lots of trees here, I haven't the one fruiting money yet. If it wasn't for THIS truck, I wouldn't have any opportunity to make any money with my backhoe.


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lemme ask you, what do you get for gas mileage now?

I went from an average of 13mpg, to an average of 17 mpg, just by changing the way I drive.
I have no idea what the truck is getting at the moment. We've only had it a week and haven't driven it to the point of being able to get any idea of the mileage it's getting.

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and, when putting around town, with or without a load, a lower gear would help....say going from 3.55's to 4.10's.

If you want to know the gear ratio you have now, you can check by two ways:
first, get under the truck, and see what the diff tag says on it....or, look when you open the driver's side door, their is a sticker in the door jamb that has info about the truck....their will be a place on it that says AXLE, it will have a code of something like H9 on it. write that down and post back, and I can see if its in my Ford shop manual.
I crawled under it and didn't see anything on either case. The door sticker, under "axle" just says "19". I don't have any experience here but the whole thing looked kind weird. The front wheel axle is set off to the passengers side of the underbody and the rear wheel axle is centered. No numbers on either casing.

I still think the aerodynamic mods have a great deal of merit since I am forced to use this vehicle and need to make some kind of progress in the FE arena. I just have to work with what I have at the moment.
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