Originally Posted by
Caveman
I would love to find this good mileage power band talked about for my 4.0 Ranger. I drive like a grandma and get pretty poor mileage IMO. About the same as a new full size truck with a V8, maybe worse.
When my Ranger was much newer I surely overloaded it with at least 1500 pounds of stone, twice. Had the bed heaped some, and the stone stacked. The leaf springs paid the price and needed to be replaced shortly later.
Hope you have continued good luck with the Ranger!
This Ranger has 19 year old technology , so yes new pickups are better . The power band for me is relative to this particular truck & appreciation of it on it's own merits . I've driven many cars & trucks, some with real power . But the 4.0 Ranger does have a nice effortless way of going about town.
It is by no means a 5.0 Ford 150 .
My 1999 Dodge 318 pickup that I need for it's purpose, is a killer in fuel cost so that has become my base line . The Ranger 4.0 is better then my 318 as a daily driver
One of my best scrap trucks from my past was an
Econoline van . I was using it during the days of the Floods . I was dismantling and loading boilers back then
this particular Van was originally used by DHL deliver service so I think is was kinda after market beefed up .
I could put 4000 pounds of boilers in it & it was still jacked up . The motor was the good old 4.0 V-6
The truck was kinda slow empty and was the same kinda slow with 4000 pounds, the 4.0 is a good motor
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