holy crap mpg suckage!!!
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holy crap mpg suckage!!!
haha and you thought your gas milageae was bad!!!
it reads half from eye level....
and no my trip meter does no say 0000 it says 100....yes 100 miles...10 gallons of gas...WTF!!!!! i hope my gauge is off what can i do to improve this...i must have a leadfoot this tank...geeze!!!
i have a k&n filter and modded airbox
an exhaust?
honda incite?
it reads half from eye level....
and no my trip meter does no say 0000 it says 100....yes 100 miles...10 gallons of gas...WTF!!!!! i hope my gauge is off what can i do to improve this...i must have a leadfoot this tank...geeze!!!
i have a k&n filter and modded airbox
an exhaust?
honda incite?
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well i did that 2 tanks ago and those 2 weeks it went up so im just gonna leave those like they are....helping your engine breathe better should improve mpg because it allows more air to get in with same amount of effort and more air=bigger boom which makes more power for less gas
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well my excuse for that is becuase I have 4.88's with 265/75's.
Also could be because: It's cold, may need a new air filter. Humm.....yea, the 4.88's with 265/75's are the main thing.
Lance I remember you saying you get around 300 mi/tank with 4.88's and 285/75's right?
Also could be because: It's cold, may need a new air filter. Humm.....yea, the 4.88's with 265/75's are the main thing.
Lance I remember you saying you get around 300 mi/tank with 4.88's and 285/75's right?
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Originally Posted by Bighead
Now that doesn't sound right.
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My Yotas have always been the opposite - 90 miles before it moves off Full, then it drops exponentially toward the E mark.
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I'm running 33s and get about 120 miles on the first half, then another 80-100 miles second half on the odometer. This means that for a full tank (16.5 gal) I'm getting an average of 210 odometer miles, or 210*32/27=248.89 road miles per tank (15.08 mpg). That's in the city with my jackrabbit driving.
On the highway, keeping it at or below 65 mph (on the odometer, which means I'm actually going at or below 77 mph) I can get 240+ odometer miles on the tank (284.4 miles +, 17.24 mpg +)
I haven't regeared - I think it's 4.88s. I may be off on the correction calculations, but I think the original tires Toyota put on the truck are about 27" and my 33s are actually 32"
On the highway, keeping it at or below 65 mph (on the odometer, which means I'm actually going at or below 77 mph) I can get 240+ odometer miles on the tank (284.4 miles +, 17.24 mpg +)
I haven't regeared - I think it's 4.88s. I may be off on the correction calculations, but I think the original tires Toyota put on the truck are about 27" and my 33s are actually 32"
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Mine goes down gradually until I hit the halfway point, then it drops like a rock. When the guage says it's empty, I usually have about 2 gallons left. I think they do this on purpose so people won't get stranded.
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to gauge mpg you cant look at the gas gauge.
fill truck to full
drive truck x amount of miles
fill to full agian and record gallons added. and how many miles you drove.
devide miles and gallons to get your real mpg.
my gauge makes a huge drop alittle past half and agian at 1/4 tank. but ive never run out so its a moot point to me.
fill truck to full
drive truck x amount of miles
fill to full agian and record gallons added. and how many miles you drove.
devide miles and gallons to get your real mpg.
my gauge makes a huge drop alittle past half and agian at 1/4 tank. but ive never run out so its a moot point to me.
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Originally Posted by payyourtoll
so to summarize. Toyota fuel gauges bite the big one!
The reason they go down slower on the first half then faster the lower you go is simple - there is an arm with a float on it that swings across a resistor. Resistors are not linear. The resistance increases exponentially. There are some linear fuel senders out there these days, but that system costs more....