Re: OT-powerstroke milage?

Posted by T_Bone on January 13, 2006 at 04:41:30 from (4.240.39.133):

In Reply to: OT-powerstroke milage? posted by Don-Wi on January 12, 2006 at 21:19:18:

Hi Donovan,

I have a 02 F350, DRW, CC, PSD, 6spd, CC, lwb, 4wd, completely stock.

You have to retrain yourself to drive a DBW, (drive by wire) fuel system to yeild the best fuel mileage. The most important being how hard to push on the go pedal to get you moving.

I set up a test road thats typical for my area when I first bought mine. This test road would yield:
20.75mpg@55mph
19.2mpg@60mph
18.1mpg@65mph
17.2mpg@70mph

I decided that I could live with 19.2mpg. Making that happen was not easy. I found that if I pushed a tad to hard on the fuel pedal, I would drop to 18.5mpg real easy, hence the retraining.

My 15k mile life time fuel mileage average, 17.1mpg that includes pulling 16kGCW for 6k miles thru the Colorado Rockies.

My 23k mile life time fuel mileage average, 15.2mpg that includes 6k miles pulling 16kGCW and 3k miles of pulling 31kGCW.

I now use tank averaging on a XL spead sheet, single tank, 3, 5, 10, trip mileage and life time fuel mileage, as I use a aux tank. This is a very accurate way to figure fuel mileage.

Do not use the overhead display to figure fuel mileage as there known to be off alot.

Total miles/gallons used = accurate fuel mileage.

The 7.3 doesn't need to be chipped. It has all the power you need in the stock configuration.

The KBB prices are phoney. I paid $30,997 cash with 18miles, and for the next two years the KBB listed my truck at $33,000 and change.

T_Bone

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