On 5/3/05 9:14, "jbange" <hfinn@INGRATES.NET> wrote:

> At 05:37 AM 5/3/2005, you wrote:
>> You might bump it up a half mile per gallon more by cruising at no moe
>> than 55 mph and addiing type F fluid to the trans to help the clutches
>> grab better, but you'll hardly never see 16 mpg. in an automatic
>> Vanagon.
>> 
>> If someone makes ridiculous claims otherwise, they are blatantly
>> pevaricating.
> 
> Call me a prevaricator, but over the course of 6 months and 2000+ miles
> before I had a head stud snap, I consistently got 18-19mpg from mine (auto
> transmission, over 200K miles on original engine). Flat highway driving at
> 55-60mph would get it to 19 and change, only ever breaking 20 if there was
> a downhill slope to it. City driving brought the average down, but I never
> did enough to get a good idea of what the mpg was. Mileage was recorded via
> GPS, so I wasn't a victim of an over-enthusiastic odometer.  An auto westy
> might never see above 16, but a GL certainly could do better than that.
> 
> 

The old mileage charts showed 15 city 19 hiway and 16 avg.  noncamper
standard trans.  For a camper they just estimated that it would drop about 1
mpg.  
For the auto it was still 15 city and the hiway dropped to 18 and the avg
stayed at 16.  Most auto vans around here that I have seen don�t usually see
the 18.  It is usually 17 on the hiway.

On my old AC engine it was supposedly the same specs as the later WB
standard trans but I got 13 city and 17 hiway with and avg driving of about
14mpg.
Several other camper AC std engine around here are getting about the same
figures I got.  I think the variations in altitude in colorado make fun of
mileage charts for older engines.

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