gas guzzler

[raver_boi_88]

it is really ridiculous, It does excellent when I am on the highway but when I am drivin around town it sux gas like no tommorow. I only put a 3.5 in calmini lift on it. I could understand mabee ya know if I lifted it about ten inches if itr got that gas mileage but no just 3.5 and raised the torsion bar about another .5 or so. I guess i will try to clean the fuel injectors tonight but if there is anything else anyone can think of let me know plz.

[Anita]

Did it get that kind of mileage before the lift doing city driving?

[Joe_Black]

Did you put significantly larger tires with the lift? If so, that could affect your in-town mileage since you would have effectively changed the gearing to favor highway cruise speeds. When I put 31X10.50's on my '88 Trooper it hurt the in-town mileage, but just a little.

There's quite a few "big meat" tire folk here, so hopefully they'll chime in with actual VX experience.

[Triathlete]

With 31s on my Vx I still get no less than 15 MPG in town!

[Joe_Black]

Yeah, 31's wouldn't make much difference as the stock tire diameter I think is about 30", but if he has like 33" Swampers or something with a lot of rolling resistance as well as significant diameter. It's amazing how some things increase load almost exponentially after a certain threshold.

[Numba1goalie]

Well at 2.2 MPG you should probably take it in. Something I have always done to vehicles with over 30K miles is do that Seafoam Treatment. It has always cleaned up my engines well and made my Vehicross get maybe a extra 2 miles to the gallon.

[ScottinMA]

Time to hull the sea anchor (nautical term for bringing in the parachute-like-device the prevents movement in a stiff wind). Sheesh! If I was getting milage like that I'd have that baby lowered to about 1/2 off the asphalt.

S

[AlaskaVX]

I am running 33's and see 10mpg city and 13 mpg highway

Something is seriously wrong if you aren't exagerating, or your fuel guage is off

[dkmiller68]

move to a smaller town?