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Looking at a 1981 Diesel 200 1984

posted by  Rludwick on  Sat Mar 16 08:36 CST 2002
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Usually about 40 mpg is tops. but if someone had a tight one and cut the mixture back a bit , I could see 47 mpg as a possible.
I had a Rabbit diesel a number of years back that consistantly got 60-65mpg on fairly flat 2 lane highways, it would drop to 50-55 mpg in the mountains( I was commuting about 85 miles a day at that time)

The only bad thing I've noticed about the oil consumption going down is that my fuel milage is staying constant even with the extra compression , because before a large percentage of what was carrying me down the road was the extra oil in the mix.( I had leaned the injected amount down when it was burning a lot of oil , but when the oil burning slowed down I found myself down in the gears a lot and had to richen it back up a bit to get the torque back.)






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