just got new truck

[88gt]

i have a 95 s10, 4.3 with a stickshift and it gets 23 MPG. they make great DD rides and 23 mpg isnt bad compared to the mustang.

That's what my mustang gets..last I checked (or cared) it got 20mpg and I was playing around some...

 

[Roland69]

yea mine got 22 most days and sometimes it got 25.......and a few times it was 18

 

[25thmustang]

4x4s fun till you break something!

 

[PJB]

i have a 95 s10, 4.3 with a stickshift and it gets 23 MPG. they make great DD rides and 23 mpg isnt bad compared to the mustang.

My brother had the same combination and he got 25 mpg a few times.
The older 4.3's were better on gas than the '96+ motors.

 

[mantix33]

thats kinda wierd the older 4.3's getting better gas mileage than the newer ones, the older ones had only a single injector with the spider popets, and the newer ones had 6 inj, with spider popets... but that i think probobly goes with how the people took care of their crap

 

[Roland69]

4x4s fun till you break something!

yea I just did a front wheel berring and the whole hub cost 266 with tax at my boss's cost

 

[powertrax91]

well i am going to get it painted probobly after this winter... im thinking about black or maybe white. then eventually i might drop in a 4.3L and lim slip rear end with 3.55's or something, (its my DD and i dont wana kill my gas mileage)

Leave the 4 banger and put a turbo on it

 

[PJB]

thats kinda wierd the older 4.3's getting better gas mileage than the newer ones, the older ones had only a single injector with the spider popets, and the newer ones had 6 inj, with spider popets... but that i think probobly goes with how the people took care of their crap

Only the older Vortec motors had the spiders. The rest had TBI until '96 when they all had the spider system.
The TBI ones are the ones that seem to get better mpg.

 

[Henceforward]

Spray bomb that bi'ch with flat black immediately...