Back from 7,770 mile trip

Nunyabiz · 2013-06-11T20:16:48+00:00

27 days and 7,770 miles. Was packed full to the brim, seemed like the sides were bulging out, total blivet carrying 800lbs of shyte in a 400lb cargo area. Every square inch from back door to front seats and from top to bottom. So I was hauling a LOAD. I burned 391.66 Gallons for an average of 19.83mpg. That is hauling a huge load with temps ranging from in the low 20s up to 100 degrees, from sea level to over 8500 feet with lots of severe up and down hills. My worst mileage on a tank was 15.69mpg that was in Southern California in traffic and lots of idling. My best tank was 21.47mpg that was leaving Bend Oregon headed towards Yellowstone. So all in all was better mileage than I expected, so maybe the new Intake pipe/air filter and new muffler helped. I did have one minor problem and I do not yet know what it is. I had the "check engine plus VSC trac off lights come on" 4X, I reset with the UltraGuage which never said anything but "Pending Code" even after the lights on dash were lit. Wasn't my gas cap, checked that and I always click it good before I close the cover. I assume it must be some Evap emissions control system problem but do not have the codes yet. After resetting it around Montana somewhere it never came back on for the last 2000+ miles or so. What ever it was it never seemed to effect the truck at all, it really ran like a top the whole trip. Soon as we sell our house in NC will be doing another cross country trip, this time one way to Bend Oregon with 2 Kayaks on the roof rack. . .