Just one photo here cause it's back to my southeastern Oregon stomping grounds. Took my wife for a quick run to see some desert Mountain landscapes.
So this is just some BS on a quick trip with a lot of miles in a 84 with 98K miles on it, stock drive train, original emmissions et all.
474 miles driven
32 gallons of gas ($3.25-3.45 per gal)
14.8 mpg
this was not a wheeling trip, never locked in the hubs, even the back roads were dry. I did use my newly aquired 2lo selection on the transfer case. Couple of roads are very rocky, soft ball size rocks scattered in both tracks, so slow low was needed but traction was no problem.
I pulled the yakima rack cause I did not need the storage box..Man what a difference in wind noise!
It was 80 miles of 50 mph dirt roads (they had all just been graded so little to no wash board) and 100 miles of pavement going down.
30 miles of dirt and 170 of pavement coming back. Obviously didn't go in and come out the same route..
when on the open paved road Drove @2300-2500rpm showing 53-56mph on speedo but that works out to around 60-63 over the ground with the 33s which are down to about 25%.
As this rig usually does, it got up to 7/8 HOT on the temp gauge on the first long hwy streach, I pulled over and gave it some time then took off again and it stayed just over 1/2 the rest of the trip. I dunno why this rig does that, I have not touched the cooling system in 2 years. I don't drive it much "on the road" but it always heats up at the start of a road trip, I pull over it cools and never gets up that hot again? Guess it could be the fan clutch needing to get real hot while sitting to get it to lock up..but it did not do it when I started back..Just one of those curiser thangs..
As you can see in the photo, no use for the winch even if I did get in some mud..nearest tree is about 3miles off on the hills behind the rig..
So this is just some BS on a quick trip with a lot of miles in a 84 with 98K miles on it, stock drive train, original emmissions et all.
474 miles driven
32 gallons of gas ($3.25-3.45 per gal)
14.8 mpg
this was not a wheeling trip, never locked in the hubs, even the back roads were dry. I did use my newly aquired 2lo selection on the transfer case. Couple of roads are very rocky, soft ball size rocks scattered in both tracks, so slow low was needed but traction was no problem.
I pulled the yakima rack cause I did not need the storage box..Man what a difference in wind noise!
It was 80 miles of 50 mph dirt roads (they had all just been graded so little to no wash board) and 100 miles of pavement going down.
30 miles of dirt and 170 of pavement coming back. Obviously didn't go in and come out the same route..
when on the open paved road Drove @2300-2500rpm showing 53-56mph on speedo but that works out to around 60-63 over the ground with the 33s which are down to about 25%.
As this rig usually does, it got up to 7/8 HOT on the temp gauge on the first long hwy streach, I pulled over and gave it some time then took off again and it stayed just over 1/2 the rest of the trip. I dunno why this rig does that, I have not touched the cooling system in 2 years. I don't drive it much "on the road" but it always heats up at the start of a road trip, I pull over it cools and never gets up that hot again? Guess it could be the fan clutch needing to get real hot while sitting to get it to lock up..but it did not do it when I started back..Just one of those curiser thangs..
As you can see in the photo, no use for the winch even if I did get in some mud..nearest tree is about 3miles off on the hills behind the rig..
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