Fuel milage

[oklagp1200r]

Okay I have owned my 2001 Ford explorer sport trac 4x4 since new (September 2001) and always gotten 15 to 16 mpg combined fuel mileage with highway speeds no more than 62mph. Once on the highway years ago doing 55mph for the 200 mile trip I pushed out 20mpg. Now the good old girl has 214,000 miles on her! So with that being said what kind of fuel mileage you guys getting?

 

[Fix4Dirt]

Okay I have owned my 2001 Ford explorer sport trac 4x4 since new (September 2001) and always gotten 15 to 16 mpg combined fuel mileage with highway speeds no more than 62mph. Once on the highway years ago doing 55mph for the 200 mile trip I pushed out 20mpg. Now the good old girl has 214,000 miles on her! So with that being said what kind of fuel mileage you guys getting?

with 373s, sohc, 31s, winch bumper, roof basket, getting about 16-17 doing 75 on hwy, and 12 in town. 324k miles on the clock. still original sohc and 5r55e, and even the timing components were original until 2 years ago at 310, sine then only the primary guides have been changed.

 

[Lee's Automotive]

I get around 19 20 and that's stock with 3.55s and the 4.0 SOHC and 5r55e

 

[oklagp1200r]

Okay I have owned my 2001 Ford explorer sport trac 4x4 since new (September 2001) and always gotten 15 to 16 mpg combined fuel mileage with highway speeds no more than 62mph. Once on the highway years ago doing 55mph for the 200 mile trip I pushed out 20mpg. Now the good old girl has 214,000 miles on her! So with that being said what kind of fuel mileage you guys getting?

Maybe I'm taking it to easy on her! Lol

 

[429CJ-3X2]

My '02 Sport Trac with 3:73 gears and 235/70/16 tires gets 15-16, sometimes 17, in mixed driving locally. On long interstate/4 lane highway trips, it gets 18. On one 140 mile highway trip, it got 20. That's all at the speed limit, whatever it is - except leaving Kansas City a couple of times at 4:00 when it's pedal to the metal for an hour. That's also with the topper on and tools and junk in the back adding a fair amount of weight. Currently has 118,880 miles with what I believe are the original plugs, so it can probably do better.

 

[Oldbutslow]

Got 22mph on an 800mile trip last month with my ‘02. Auto, 2wd, 4.10 gear. ,Bob

 

[429CJ-3X2]

Drove my wife from Des Moines to Kansas City and back today so she could pick up a bird she bought. (Don't ask details about the bird because I don't know and don't care. That's her thing.) The round trip was 405 miles, all interstate except for about 10 miles. With the truck as described above, cruise control set on 67 mph on the way down and 72 mph on the return trip, it got 18.5 mpg. That's figured on miles driven according to my odometer which matched the mile markers in Mo. almost perfectly, as well as Google maps, and gallons of gas used.

Interestingly, it got better mileage on the return trip at the higher speed, 19.3 for the last 145 miles vs 18.1 for the first 260 miles. I thought I had set the cruise at 72 going down, but realized it was set on 67 as we got to the north edge of the KC Metro area. I might have noticed sooner, but that was about what traffic was running so it seemed right. Traffic was faster all the way home, but I ran up behind semis and had to slow up to let traffic go by several times. Didn't really have to do that going down. There was a light wind from the south/southwest, but not enough to make a difference. Maybe the truck liked the gas I bought in Mo better than the Iowa gas.

 

[oklagp1200r]

Drove my wife from Des Moines to Kansas City and back today so she could pick up a bird she bought. (Don't ask details about the bird because I don't know and don't care. That's her thing.) The round trip was 405 miles, all interstate except for about 10 miles. With the truck as described above, cruise control set on 67 mph on the way down and 72 mph on the return trip, it got 18.5 mpg. That's figured on miles driven according to my odometer which matched the mile markers in Mo. almost perfectly, as well as Google maps, and gallons of gas used.















Interestingly, it got better mileage on the return trip at the higher speed, 19.3 for the last 145 miles vs 18.1 for the first 260 miles. I thought I had set the cruise at 72 going down, but realized it was set on 67 as we got to the north edge of the KC Metro area. I might have noticed sooner, but that was about what traffic was running so it seemed right. Traffic was faster all the way home, but I ran up behind semis and had to slow up to let traffic go by several times. Didn't really have to do that going down. There was a light wind from the south/southwest, but not enough to make a difference. Maybe the truck liked the gas I bought in Mo better than the Iowa gas.
Thanks for the update!

 

[BigDakota]

My 2001, I stuffed 33’s under it on stock rims with factory gears.. 230,000 approx.. miles, I get around 16 highway about half that in town.. 5r55e trans. Second trans now The bigger tires retired the first trans.