After 8 yrs. of fighting the (initially very) poor mpg of my 86 (the PO gave
it new heads in 1992 and me left side only in 98) it looks like Bob resolved
the last puzzler with his last week's post on valve adjustment. Last weekend
I adjusted accordingly, took a day off yesterday + drove the kids to an
amusement park 80mi from here (world's largest wooden roller coaster - once
was enough (too much ?) for me but my 11yrs. old daughter enjoyed it). Got
250mi now with the needle still before red so mpg improved at least 10% to
somewhere >20 (got an AT) even though I went faster than normal (5 girls
pushed) and some stop + go traffic. Compression always was ok over the years
but didn't check with the engine running. And a friend with his basically
identical van reporting around 22mpg...
Moral: One day you'll find her !
Thanks a lot Bob !
Michael, Germany
80 Westy
86 GL
86 Quantum
93 318 T