dorkweed

Nice "beached blonde" mullet!!!! I hope that's an "OLD" picture Mike!!! But at least........................you have "HAIR"!!!

Where you at????? I thought it was hot all over the country. 99*F where I hunt in NoDak yesterday..............92*F and very humid here yesterday.............

I like to do math by hand. I could do it on my I-phone; but then I'd have to find the calculator on the darn thing!!!!!! It's just a bit faster and easier if I round down the miles by not counting the tenths; and then just round up the gallons to the next tenth.............that way only one decimal place to account for in the math.........................and I also know that I got a RCH better mileage than the math shows!!! Just saying!!!

This tanks averaged in at 20.6mpg hand calculated. Wound up with 630 miles driven and stuffed the tank with 30.5 gallons of fuel. What I do when hand calculating mileage is to just take the WHOLE number of miles and eliminate the decimal. For instance, on this tank of fuel, I actually drove 630.7 miles. Then for the fuel; I round up the decimal. On this tank I filled up with 30.47 gallons.................rounded up to 30.5. This way; I'm actually getting slightly less fuel mileage than actual. 630 divided by 30.5 equals 20.6xx.

That "extra gear" between 1st and OD is what makes the NV5600 the "cats dupe" for towing!! I've had both.........................nv5600=way better!!!!!

The 1st "mod" I ever did to my truck was the "fuel tank vent mod". When I first got my '04.5, it would take 27-28 gallons of diesel to "fill her up". After the "fuel tank vent mod"; when I fill up now, MightyWhitey takes 30-32 gallons. I think I have the "little" tank.

Isn't there a place out of Texas that is rebuilding the NV5600's and creating a great reputation for themselves also??? Don't recall where I read that.

My current tank of fuel................................just touching the top of the 1/4 tank mark.

SuperTech is good stuff. I'm back to running SuperTech as engine oil now.

How much of an incline???

It has been shown that the tranny does run warmer/hotter with the overfill, based on posts in other forums. It's been speculated that it's either due to foaming and the oil not cooling ............or that oil is now getting to areas it didn't before and removing the heat. I dunno.

Most any brand of "new" stuff will be better than the "old" stuff drained out.

Drink a beer....................re-read Mikes posts..............drink another beer....................and just do it. Power steering doesn't hold much fluid at all.

Also; I'm approaching 160,000 miles on my SB Con OFE clutch. Just saying.

My SB Con OFE makes a heck of a racket at idle without the clutch depressed. Still does with more oil also.

Just got done changing out all the fluids on my truck. Diffs, tranny, transfer case, coolant, power steering, blinker and engine oil. It's been a consensus that one should overfill the NV5600 tranny by a quart for as long as I can remember. In the service manual, it says that the tranny will hold 9.5 pints, or 4.75 quarts. If you drain and refill on level ground until the fluid runs out the top bolt hole of the PTO cover, you'll likely only get about 4-4.25 quarts back in. Well when I drained mine, I let her drain over night on level ground. Only 5 quarts drained out. Could've sworn that I had more in there. Anyhow; when I refilled, this time I got 6.25 quarts in her. Jacked up the drivers side front a bit to get it in. Impression is that the truck shifts much more easily now. Not that my tranny shifted hard before, but, with the 1.5 quart overfill, it is definitely different.................for the better.

When you tow as often as I do; I figure at least every other time out, that I'll be cut off etc. Whole bunch of asshats out there on the roads.

Mike has no problems with his box or his nuts.....................

Agreed. I knew even a couple years ago, that those "hard" parts would need replacing...........................eventually.

My truck almost never sits for more than a day.

I'm so jealous.

1. Fan Clutch and special tool 2. Alternator 3. Batteries 4. Water Pump 5. New Amsoil Fluids for Diffs, Tranny, Transfer Case, and Power Steering. 6. New Zerex Hoat Antifreeze for cooling system. 7. Oil and oil filter 8. Fuel filters So far. Will probably nee to get new tires before the end of the year............Have over 73,000 on the current Cooper AT3's. Hopefully nothing else goes away.

I do.

Since my "flood" pix in the other thread, there hasn't been a drop of rain here and it's been really hot too.

I think weight rather than volume would be a more equitable solution