Ford F250 Utility body MPG?

sure; approximately bugger all!

Get yourself a geo metro, or a diahatsu charade 1.0litre turbo diesel (100miles per gallon!!!!)

Shaun

of possibly more interest to you; most f100/250/350 owners i know have extremely variable mileage, even with the same model. Carb setup seems to be critical with these engines with some swallowing almost twice as much fuel as others. Getting your engine well sorted with valves and carb settings will see much better mileage. There are also many LPG conversion kits available.

10 to 11

I had the exact same unit without the extra weight of the utility body. Got

12 on long trips. About 9 in and out of town. The extra weight will lower this result some.

Karl

Shaun, though my Focus gets a mere 36MPG, my old F-150 with the straight six could haul plywood. Do they make Geo Metro utility cars?

Aside from that, Gunner, are there any LPG capable fill> sure;

On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:29:08 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, Gunner quickly quoth:

LESS than the Ranger, prolly 12-14mpg with Grapevines involved.

Here's a beauty I'd love to have:

it's a gas engine. $30k

- Metaphors Be With You -

About 14-15 for me for a very similar '94 - mine has the same engine, but manual trans and a tow package, which I think means it may be geared lower. GVW is ~9500.

Ned Simmons

For purposes of discussion 10-12 around town, 12-14 highway real world, with the alcohol oxygenated low-BTU-content low-mileage crap they pass off to us as "gasoline" in SoCal. The EFI does help a lot, with a carb you'd be looking at more like 8 - 10.

You might be able to stretch 15 - 16 highway with a very light load, no big wind-catchers on the rack, and an egg under your right foot.

But nobody who has to get somewhere for a living and have all the stuff they need with them can drive that way...

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Gunner I have one of these Chevy C2500s and I get 17-18 with a medium load and a topper. Mine is a 2000 with a 4L80E - 350 combo, the last year they made this body style. When I pull my loaded trailer - Pickup and trailer weigh

12000 lb mileage drops to 11-13. Dependable, large brakes with tranny and engine oil cooler from the factory.

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Steve

Am I missing something... how can a vehicle with a 3/4 ton payload rating weigh 4 tons?

My old Brit Ford Transit van weighed 3500lb empty and had a rated payload of

2250lb. 26mpg diesel.

Mark Rand RTFM

I think that 3/4 ton, 1/2 ton label stuck from the old days. My Chevy C2500 GVWR is 8600 lbs, empty I think 6200 lbs with a fiberglass topper. It hauls

3000 lbs without a problem. Steve

12-14 city, 16-18 HW.

My Saturn SL1 stays in the mid 30's range and a $850.00 5x8 trailer makes it perfectly capable of bringing home 3-400# of plywood at a time. I really don't miss driving my old truck that much other than leg and gut room.

Wes

Gunner, thought reclining seats were one of your considerations. I certainly like to nap in my vehicles especially when my wife is shopping.

Ivan Vegvary

I think the highway mileage will depend a lot on the gearing. The mileage will be drastically different between a 4.11 diff and a 2.70 diff.

If my old Dodge with auto trans, 5.9L (360 c.i. for us 'mericans) and 4.10 diffs is any indication, it would do about 12MPG on a good day with the wind at my back and 65mph. Once over 65 the mileage would start dropping dramatically and by about 80mph mileage was down to 7-8mpg. By 90 it was probably measured in gpm instead of mpg. A friend of mine had a very similar truck but had the 2.70 diffs and he would get about 17-18 on the highway (again on a good day and no load).

The truck you mentioned is a work truck so I would guess that it has the 4.11 diffs and it's a bit heavier so I would think that if you got 12 you would be doing GREAT. Still may be possible with flat roads, cruise control, wind at your back, and light load.

Wayne

I had a 97 5 speed. Averaged 13.2 for nearly 200,000 miles while carrying 2500 pounds.

--Andy Asberry--

------Texas-----

My old '73 carb equipped F250 with a 390cid and A/T used to get 14+ on the "highway." It got around 12mpg when I bought it in '82. Within about 18 months it had dropped to 10 (not to mention it was going through a quart of oil every 500 miles), so I overhauled it... main bearings, a little valve work, and I don't recall what else... and it got

14-15mpg.

I used it mostly to commute to work... 25 miles each way, about 5 miles of back country roads, a couple miles of "town" driving, and the rest pretty much secondary roads. Not any real "highway" to speak of, so I was pretty happy with 14+.

When I hauled heavy loads, it wasn't generally for more than 30 to 50 miles on a tank, so I don't have much recollection of what it got under load.

I should also mention it had a 3.55 gear which was too high for taking off in any but granny gear.

--Andy Asberry--

------Texas-----

Most propane suppliers have stations. The two in the small town I lived near out in N. CA had them.

Martin

Mart> Shaun, though my Focus gets a mere 36MPG, my old F-150 with the straight

Gonna be pretty hard to put 500lbs of tools, a welder, OA rig and a 10 and 8' ladder in a Metro.....

Carbs on Electronic Fuel Injected engines?

No shit?

Gunner

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