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Im just curious... do you guys with 90 runners have trouble on hills? When I go up snowboarding, driving up 6% grade hills, I can barely keep my rig going 55mph and chews through gas like no other.
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thats why its lovingly nicknamed the 3.slow... if you post up your details auto/std, tiresize, gearing.. then you might get some posts about how to better it. but you'll never remedy it completely.. well, unless you swap it out. lol
TONS of threads on this.
TONS of threads on this.
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Yea, mine has a bit of trouble but it still gets good milage even if i'm running it well above 3,000 rpm on the hills. It's MUCH better now that I have installed a cone filter and fabricated a heat shiled.
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Yes mine does , but most vehicles do just not as bad.The main thing I worry about is over heating my tranny on long hills trying to keep up to the traffic. Gas mileage doesn,t change much on mine . I get between 425-450kms per tank on 92 octane with 235/75 tires and 410 gears.
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Originally Posted by Dekri
Im just curious... do you guys with 90 runners have trouble on hills? When I go up snowboarding, driving up 6% grade hills, I can barely keep my rig going 55mph and chews through gas like no other.
If yours gets any worse, you may want to look at tune up items, like plugs, wies, cap and rotor, etc... If that doesn't work, check your compression. Loosing power is a symptom of many things: Blown head gasket, rings, etc...
Some guys here swear that their performance improved after changing the 'lifetime' fuel filter.
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yeah ive got the 3.0 and 32x11.5 BFG MTs, auto tranny...its terrible going up hills. The auto tranny's are worthless I have determined in combination with that motor for hills, it kicks out of gear constantly...you try to give it some gas and it will hold at around 4k rpms for 5 seconds..then kick back down...terrible combo!
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Part of the problem we have up here is that you're driving uphill at 10-11 thousand feet. If I'm at 3/4 power (or so) at 6200 feet, I'd guess you're close to half power when you're hitting the tunnel (let alone if you go up over it).
Gas use will go down with less air, but running wide open will still eat a fair amount of gas up.
My 3.4L does well on the uphills in 4th at 65+mph. If I drop lower than that I"ll never get going again and will spend the rest of the hill climb between 3rd and 4th at 50 to 60 mph.
Gas use will go down with less air, but running wide open will still eat a fair amount of gas up.
My 3.4L does well on the uphills in 4th at 65+mph. If I drop lower than that I"ll never get going again and will spend the rest of the hill climb between 3rd and 4th at 50 to 60 mph.
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hahaha my old 96 was pretty quick up to vail and back same with berthoud, but the 2000 5 speed s/c its 5th gear rolling 100 the whole way.
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of course you 3rd gen guys will have less issues, you have the 3.4L, some with, some without the supercharger.. which puts out alot more power then the 3.slow. I love my engine, but it is just a bit underpowered for the weight, and drinks way too much gas.. (get about 13.5mpg right now, which is pitiful) but hey, it's worth it.
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Originally Posted by Ontos
Hey.....not all the guys with 3rd gens have a 3.4........
Some of us 2.7 guys still lean forward on the uphills...
Some of us 2.7 guys still lean forward on the uphills...
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