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cruising rpm's

posted by  someone claiming to be Bob Conolly on  Fri Apr 12 16:27 CST 2002 [RELATED]

Kswan,

My '85 240 with B230F and standard trans. (M46) cruises at 70mph at about 2600rpm.

Are you sure that the tach that you installed in the '87 is not bad, or from a 6cyl car? You might want to try swapping them and see what happens.

If both tachs are 4cyl tachs and check out 'OK', then the only thing that I can think of is that the '87 might not be shifting into overdrive.

Assuming that everything else is equal, cruising rpms should be roughly the same for both cars.

-=Bob=-






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