

| Subject: | Re: Gas mileage |
| From: | David Brodbeck |
| Date: | Tue, 26 Aug 2003 21:33:14 -0400 |
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Mike Miller wrote: > Hmmm. I don't think so and I checked some mileage just today and it was on. > Don�t rightly know how to check further. > > But it's a thought I hadn't thought of. On my '75 it had a cracked gear and was intermittently sticking when it passed three tenths. It was a long time before I happened to be looking at it at the right moment to notice. Fixed it, and my calculated fuel economy improved notably. ;> Anyway, unless you notice that it doesn't seem to show as much milage as you think it should on drives between towns, it's probably not that. I first noticed it when I made a trip from Houghton to Madison and noticed the odometer said the trip was something like 30 miles shorter than it should have been. David Brodbeck, N8SRE '82 Diesel Westfalia '94 Honda Civic Si
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