Waste of bloody time...
Posted: 17 Feb 2012
As many of you know my current only-motor-available-when-i-needed-one four wheeled shed is a crappy Daihatsu 4x4. Now whilst it may be fun on the muddy stuff and generally reliable it's piss-poor in the fuel economy department! Being a little 1300cc through a permanant 50/50 splitter it drinks petrol like Rab C Nesbitt drinks Buckfast (25-30mpg).
So, me thinks that as i don't need the 4 wheel drive element particularly i should just hack a couple of wheels off the drivetrain, gotta help significantly I thought and probably free up a bit of power.
I'd have preferred RWD but as the front propshaft is fitted directly into the transfer box via a slipjoint and seal it'd have to be FWD. No biggie really. So, i takes off the rear prop, takes just 15 minutes et voila!
Checks the previous mpg which was 30 and nips off down the petroleum establishment for a top-up. Took it out and felt no discernable different except for a distinct lack of engine braking and after a 60 mile run i topped it back up and low and behold an improvement in the mpg was had! It managed to gain a whole massive impressive unbelievably exciting 3mpg! Waste of tossing time!
So, me thinks that as i don't need the 4 wheel drive element particularly i should just hack a couple of wheels off the drivetrain, gotta help significantly I thought and probably free up a bit of power.
I'd have preferred RWD but as the front propshaft is fitted directly into the transfer box via a slipjoint and seal it'd have to be FWD. No biggie really. So, i takes off the rear prop, takes just 15 minutes et voila!
Checks the previous mpg which was 30 and nips off down the petroleum establishment for a top-up. Took it out and felt no discernable different except for a distinct lack of engine braking and after a 60 mile run i topped it back up and low and behold an improvement in the mpg was had! It managed to gain a whole massive impressive unbelievably exciting 3mpg! Waste of tossing time!