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<blockquote data-quote="swampratt" data-source="post: 2981746" data-attributes="member: 15054"><p>Thanks.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Yea I have a son that has a 2013 with 5.3 and a buddy with another truck with 5.3 his is a 2012.</p><p>My 47 dodge and 57 chevy with No overdrive get better MPG and has more power with old school 350 and a carburetor.</p><p>I thought the new stuff with Fuel injection was supposed to trump the old school carbs.</p><p>We have pulled my small Bayliner to the lake 160 miles away and my carbed vehicles get 2 MPG better than their fuel injected ones. Kind of sad really.</p><p>My 6000lb 82 ford van with 4" lift powered by a 302 with a 2 barrel got better mpg than the newer truck when pulling my Bayliner also and I had 350 gears and cruised at 2800-3200 rpm down the highway 17.6 mpg.</p><p>Yea I built the 302 for MPG also. It ran 18.0 in the 1/4</p><p></p><p>I hate on the new oil injection mercury outboard also.</p><p>Steel gear around the crank that drives a plastic oil injection pump gear... yea that's a great idea.</p><p></p><p>I feel Mercury did not trust it fully either , as in the shop manual it states after rebuilding one of the oil injection engines </p><p>you need to mix gas and oil in the fuel tank at 50:1 and have the oil tank full and hooked up so the oil injection also feeds the rebuilt engine for the first 10 hours of operation.</p><p>I am pretty sure it was 10 hours. No trust.</p><p>I rebuilt a V6 inboard 2 stroke jet drive mercury a few years ago.</p><p>The ladies that owned it did not fill the oil tank and scalded a cylinder and melted the plastic oil pump drive mechanism. And ruined the oil pump.</p><p>They ran 3 tanks of fuel through it after I rebuilt it and never opened the dog house to fill the oil tank and did it again.</p><p>I did not rebuild it again.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I suppose the pontoon boat will keep the wife happy.</p><p>I just want to drift fish and run trot lines and jugs.</p><p>Hopefully it is not too high off the water for that.</p><p></p><p>I think she wants to BBQ and walk around like on a big floating porch.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="swampratt, post: 2981746, member: 15054"] Thanks. Yea I have a son that has a 2013 with 5.3 and a buddy with another truck with 5.3 his is a 2012. My 47 dodge and 57 chevy with No overdrive get better MPG and has more power with old school 350 and a carburetor. I thought the new stuff with Fuel injection was supposed to trump the old school carbs. We have pulled my small Bayliner to the lake 160 miles away and my carbed vehicles get 2 MPG better than their fuel injected ones. Kind of sad really. My 6000lb 82 ford van with 4" lift powered by a 302 with a 2 barrel got better mpg than the newer truck when pulling my Bayliner also and I had 350 gears and cruised at 2800-3200 rpm down the highway 17.6 mpg. Yea I built the 302 for MPG also. It ran 18.0 in the 1/4 I hate on the new oil injection mercury outboard also. Steel gear around the crank that drives a plastic oil injection pump gear... yea that's a great idea. I feel Mercury did not trust it fully either , as in the shop manual it states after rebuilding one of the oil injection engines you need to mix gas and oil in the fuel tank at 50:1 and have the oil tank full and hooked up so the oil injection also feeds the rebuilt engine for the first 10 hours of operation. I am pretty sure it was 10 hours. No trust. I rebuilt a V6 inboard 2 stroke jet drive mercury a few years ago. The ladies that owned it did not fill the oil tank and scalded a cylinder and melted the plastic oil pump drive mechanism. And ruined the oil pump. They ran 3 tanks of fuel through it after I rebuilt it and never opened the dog house to fill the oil tank and did it again. I did not rebuild it again. I suppose the pontoon boat will keep the wife happy. I just want to drift fish and run trot lines and jugs. Hopefully it is not too high off the water for that. I think she wants to BBQ and walk around like on a big floating porch. [/QUOTE]
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