Save fuel

[taslucas]

Carburetted engines create vacuum, more when under load, eg. a light foot on the pedal will show low vacuum and heavy on the go pedal will show high vacuum, this is a good indicator of fuel consumption.
Cheers, the ferret.

The old VC commonhore had an "economy gauge" that worked off vacuum as ferret says

tappn it

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ooohhhh... wow, good explanation, quick and simply... my new rigs a carby so looks like im goin to get a vac guage! does it only work with petrol tho? im also runnin gas.

[the ferret]

[QUOTE=Breaks;208809]ooohhhh... wow, good explanation, quick and simply... my new rigs a carby so looks like im goin to get a vac guage! does it only work with petrol tho? im also runnin gas.[/QUOTE

The gas goes through the carby too, with a vacuum gauge, it will tell you when you are being too heavy footed, so you would try and keep within the green band, and that would help save fuel.
Takes a bit of getting used to but it's worth it.]
Just plug it to the inlet manifold somewhere.
Cheers, the ferret.

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Shweet. Cheers for that, been part of this site for an hour an already i feel like im winning lol

[the ferret]

Shweet. Cheers for that, been part of this site for an hour an already i feel like im winning lol

You can find answers to most things 4x4 on here mate, even to some things that aren't 4x4 related.
Just bung up a question and soon you will get a result.
Cheers, the ferret.

[GQsweep]

If you have the Auto and carby, discreet use of the 'power' button on the shifter can help as well. Don't be sucked in to thinking if you use the power option you will use more fuel. It's more to do with the position of the butterflies as to how much fuel is going in and lugging up a hill in a higher gear can use more fuel than higher revs with a lighter throttle. At the start of the hill pop the button and it will change down earlier without you having to force the 'kick-down' with a pedal stomp. Approaching the top push it back in and let it change up when it's ready.
I remember from my youth being told that a smooth drive will always use less fuel and to try and drive as though you have an egg between your foot and the pedal - nice smooth accelerations and anticipate the changes and throttle back or up accordingly.

Chris

[Winnie]

Don't decelerate, like ever. That brake pedal costs you a lot of fuel. So fly around everywhere at freeway speeds and you'll use bugger all fuel.

[the ferret]

Just drive like a Nanna, not a tear arze and you will use less fuel!!
Cheers, the ferret.

[Clunk]

I've said it before and I'll say it again, I didn't buy my GQ coz of its amazing fuel economy, if I wanted that, I'd ha bought prius lol

[Richo460]

get a set of cheese cutters for city driving