Best mileage yet!

Hi.

I've been a long time reader, yet a poor contributor! Just wanted to let everybody know of my recent mileage record and see if anybody gets similar!

Drove from Mammoth Lakes, CA to Santa Cruz and back, and averaged 24.6 MPG overall for the entire trip. Best leg was 30.5 mpg from Mammoth to Merced, and worst was from Merced to Santa Cruz, and then a day of driving around town, and still averaged 20.2. Before the trip, i changed the oil, cleaned the PCV, and dumped in a bottle of Techron. My rodeo is a 98' V6 4x4 S, 5 speed, with standard wheels and all 4 tires at 34psi. Everything else is bone stock, with cheap NAPA 10w30 oil. A friend has the exact same vehicle but with an automatic and he averages 15mpg consistently around town, and 18-19 on the highway at best. I guess changing the gears myself makes a huge difference!!!

Cheers

NEIL

what did you do to your gears to get this great mileage?

Have a '97 Rodeo automatic with 174k miles; 32" tires (2 sizes above stock size), brushguard/heavy luggage rack system, class 3 hitch, 2" lift, currently running Valvoline Maxlife 5w-30 synthetic - averaging 18-19mpg city and 21-23mpg highway driving at 65 mph.

I'm running 38psi rear/40psi front on fairly aggressive A/T tires.

what did you do to your gears to get this great mileage?

yeah, what he said. I took my first road trip in 2 years a few weeks ago (250 miles round trip) and got 21.5 (the best I ever got was 22.5). The truck has 80k on it as of last Saturday.

I think he just meant that he drives stick and can select his gears. I don't think he regeared...

I can get just over 20mpg highway and 18mpg around town, at best.

I guess manual is better.

Mine has this vibration ( not from the brake pedal or steering wheel) every other time I stopped at a stop sign at low speed. It sounds like it's from under the hood.

Clogged up something?

Anybody got an idea?

IT could be driveline clunk. the 2004 has a grease zerk on the drive shaft someplace.

what do i have to do exactly?

grease it up?

where is that?

you just need a grease gun. I don't recall where it is at... maybe on the u-joints?

Hi.

....Best leg was 30.5 mpg from Mammoth to Merced, ....
NEILi don't think it counts when you coast down the mountain in neutral and drive with the wind pushing you the rest of the way ... does it?


:p


//bc

Missed the point of the post - sorry. Me bad...my best MPG was from Vegas, NV to Yuma, AZ cruising at 70mph, a/c on, 3 people in the truck - we averaged 24mpg, with 1 size bigger then stock tires and 110F degree temps.

fix for drive line clunk

http://forum.planetisuzoo.com/viewtopic.php?t=4669

I know 30mpg seems like a bunch of bs, but i no lie. That includes climbing all the way up Tioga pass as well. I rarely drive over 70, and it was damm hot by the time we got to the end of Yosemite. Does does a combo of altitude/heat/techron/driving style make that much difference?

Honestly, I think it's just pure luck - situation was just perfect.

I highly doubt your mileage would be that good a 2nd time around; average mpg is generally based off several tank fulls over the course of different styles of driving.

The noise came from the front when I applied the brakes at very low speed.

I don't think it's the drive shaft back there.

30 mpg on a rodeo sounds like a dream or a hybrid !


never gona get tha kind of mileage on my rodeo.