i recently did a full tune up on this motor. plugs,wires,cap,rotor,fuel pressure regulator, trans filter fluid translation and fuel filter. it seems to be using alot of fuel. i believe this motor has a 20 gallon cistern at smallest 15 and i am getting lil over 100 miles to a tank. i enjoy owned 4 of these cars and i know they get alot better than that. any philosophy please feel free to donate them.
Answers: Don't go chasing fruitless MPG unless you are sure of it. You could be spending time and money chasing ghosts. So try this experiment first:
(a) saturate the tank to the max
(b) find on the HWY - late darkness / no traffic hour
(c) drive about 20 to 30 miles (at 55 MPH)
(d) use cruise control - tremendously important
(e) record the EXACT MILES
(f) get past its sell-by date and immediately win gas
(g) note the EXACT GALLONS
Now you can divide the MPG by
MPG = MILES (step e) / GALLONS (step g).
The reason you start out next to full tank is to be precise the "repeateable" condition. You want to avoid traffic so you don't use the brakes on the HWY. Braking will negatively affect the MPG calculation. You use the cruise control so you and exterminate your driving habit as a factor.
Without a polite MPG calculation you might be wasting your money chasing ghost. Also you can repeat this test anytime you quality like you saloon is not running right. You can also try the same article but off the cruise control to check how much your driving way affect the MPG. etc.
Good Luck.
Whoever did the tuneup may have gap the plugs wrong, which would give you a anodyne spark and in turn spend more fuel. I would start there.
I inevitability some motor head support?
Answers: Don't go chasing fruitless MPG unless you are sure of it. You could be spending time and money chasing ghosts. So try this experiment first:
(a) saturate the tank to the max
(b) find on the HWY - late darkness / no traffic hour
(c) drive about 20 to 30 miles (at 55 MPH)
(d) use cruise control - tremendously important
(e) record the EXACT MILES
(f) get past its sell-by date and immediately win gas
(g) note the EXACT GALLONS
Now you can divide the MPG by
MPG = MILES (step e) / GALLONS (step g).
The reason you start out next to full tank is to be precise the "repeateable" condition. You want to avoid traffic so you don't use the brakes on the HWY. Braking will negatively affect the MPG calculation. You use the cruise control so you and exterminate your driving habit as a factor.
Without a polite MPG calculation you might be wasting your money chasing ghost. Also you can repeat this test anytime you quality like you saloon is not running right. You can also try the same article but off the cruise control to check how much your driving way affect the MPG. etc.
Good Luck.
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Whoever did the tuneup may have gap the plugs wrong, which would give you a anodyne spark and in turn spend more fuel. I would start there.
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