boblynch
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We're Back
We're back from our Great Lakes trip. I'll try to get caught up on PMs and emails. The rig upgrades and new additions worked out well. After I finish unpacking and going through notes I'll post a better trip report. Thanks to everyone that offered help and advice.
I'll go through my fuel receipts and double check my math, but the rough numbers are as follows. The overall trip was about 4200 miles and we averaged 9.2 mpg. This included about 300 miles in 4wd. On the long highway run home the last two days with water tanks half empty our mileage was about 10mpg. The truck is still pretty new so I'm hoping it will continue to break in and mpg will get better.
I still need to get the odometer and speedo flashed to account for the 41 inch tires. My local guy tried, but it's still off about 16.5%. This made figuring out my actual speed a constant math challenge. After a while I made a cheat sheet and taped it to the dash. We're usually at or below the posted speed limits so this wasn't a big deal. Calculating fuel range was also a challenge.
The new tire/wheel setup handled good on the highway and reasonably well offroad even at max pressure. Steering was very good. Once I add onboard air I'll be able to lower pressures and improve offroad/backroad ride quality. The only place I was unhappy was on the poor quality/broken slab sections of the interstate. Ride quality was very rough in the rear. I'll be looking to upgrade the rear suspension setup before the next long run. The new upper boxes have helped the instability in cross winds I experienced last year. Still need to cut speed down, but the white knuckle moments are now few and far between.
We're back from our Great Lakes trip. I'll try to get caught up on PMs and emails. The rig upgrades and new additions worked out well. After I finish unpacking and going through notes I'll post a better trip report. Thanks to everyone that offered help and advice.
I'll go through my fuel receipts and double check my math, but the rough numbers are as follows. The overall trip was about 4200 miles and we averaged 9.2 mpg. This included about 300 miles in 4wd. On the long highway run home the last two days with water tanks half empty our mileage was about 10mpg. The truck is still pretty new so I'm hoping it will continue to break in and mpg will get better.
I still need to get the odometer and speedo flashed to account for the 41 inch tires. My local guy tried, but it's still off about 16.5%. This made figuring out my actual speed a constant math challenge. After a while I made a cheat sheet and taped it to the dash. We're usually at or below the posted speed limits so this wasn't a big deal. Calculating fuel range was also a challenge.
The new tire/wheel setup handled good on the highway and reasonably well offroad even at max pressure. Steering was very good. Once I add onboard air I'll be able to lower pressures and improve offroad/backroad ride quality. The only place I was unhappy was on the poor quality/broken slab sections of the interstate. Ride quality was very rough in the rear. I'll be looking to upgrade the rear suspension setup before the next long run. The new upper boxes have helped the instability in cross winds I experienced last year. Still need to cut speed down, but the white knuckle moments are now few and far between.
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