How much fuel can you buy with the cost of converting? Between last November
and This February I made three trips with the motorhome from New York to
Florida. At some stops I paid as much as $0.80 more per gallon for Diesel
than what Gasoline was going for. Yep, real happy I spent the extra money
for the Diesel.

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Jason
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 5:56 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Still lousy gas mileage

I have never been happy with the mileage my van gets, so I am fixing it with
a TDI..... Fuel is just getting too costly to let your vehicle
get out of tune.   If all else fails check compression?  Low
compression will give worse mileage.  Take the cat off and look inside with
a good light too.

Jason

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@hotmail.com>
wrote:
> That Cat may be a smaller diameter/more restrictive than what belongs.
While it may reduce performance I don't know if it will affect cruising
mileage enough to measure.
>
> Dennis
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On
> Behalf Of Bryan Feddish
> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 4:26 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Still lousy gas mileage
>
>>> Just some possibilties like maybe leaky tired injectors? <<
> Those are new and are 2 years old.
>
>>> I'm only assuming that it's tuned up: cap, rotor, plugs, wires and
>>> coil? <<
> All of those are < 6 months old except the coil which is 2 years old.
>
>>> Plugged catalytic converter? <<
> This is on my "maybe" list. it's a 4 year old cheap BD one. Maybe I should
swap this out just in case. I've been stranded by a bad cat in the past....
>
> Thanks,
> Bryan