1HZ fuel consumption.
Submitted: Thursday, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:11
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Rockape
I was a bit bored the other day at work and have always thought I would get the fuel consumption for my old and faithful underground ute that is starting to show her age.
Have always refilled at about 130k on the speedo with either the 1HZ or the V8 utes, most of the time the fuel gauges don't work or are inaccurate due to the amount of vibration or corrosion.
If we are filling a large machine we radio through the amount but with utes we just fill them at the underground fuel bay and never take the amount used.
Well I know old petal is getting a bit long in the tooth but the amount of fuel floored me, she comes in somewhere between an roadtrain and a b double in the fuel usage stakes.
Here are the figures. 130k and 84 litres or about 1.55 kilometres to the litre and 64 litres per 100k.
I think I will need to have my right foot removed with these consumption figures. In the next couple of weeks I must grab a V8 at
test it's figures.
Reply By: member - mazcan - Thursday, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:19
Thursday, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:19
hi rockape
are you sure the tanks not leaking or some one isn't milking it
find those figures a bit hard to except
surely all that fuel cant be going through the engine ????
what's coming out the exhaust near pure fuel ??
cheers might be cheaper to bury it lol
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Follow Up By: Rockape - Thursday, Feb 17, 2011 at 14:32
Thursday, Feb 17, 2011 at 14:32
Mazcan,
the old girl is not leaving any puddles on the ground but I am not game to crawl under her incase the chassis collapses.
I will
check the fuel again using the front tank only and see what that gives.
No one steals the fuel because it is a remote site and it is easy just to fuel up at the bowsers.
I always have her sitting on just over 3000 revs 3rd gear low range.
As I said will rerun the figures and also take the figures of a V8,
well the best 8 that is, ours, because the other one has had an engine change out of a troopy or a 70 series shorty making a slug, miss matched computor I think.
The old girl has out lasted about 6 V8's to date, they are already in the tip.
Have a good one.
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Follow Up By: Axle - Thursday, Feb 17, 2011 at 15:27
Thursday, Feb 17, 2011 at 15:27
RockApe, Thats not a good look for the V8s!
Cheers Axle.
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Reply By: Baz&Pud (Tassie) - Thursday, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:45
Thursday, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:45
G'day Rockape,
Yep, you are right when you say the fuel consumption is about the same as a road train, we were at Stuarts
Well last year and we were talking to a road train driver, and fuel consumption came up in the conversation, when loaded they do 700 meters to the litre.
Cheers
Baz
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Reply By: Robin Miller - Thursday, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:54
Thursday, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:54
Rockape
My Brothers does about 15lt/100km normally - but forget that , I love it when someone has figures that make my petrol patrols 17lt/100km look good.
Over long weekend coming I'm going to dessert with measuring jug and will accurately measure my cars consumption in the sand , its going to be nasty , but nowhere near 64lt/100km (I hope - and if it is I won't tell anyone anyway.)
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Follow Up By: Rockape - Thursday, Feb 17, 2011 at 14:41
Thursday, Feb 17, 2011 at 14:41
Robin,
you can feel good about your consumption, we had 100 series wagons with 1HZ engines and a couple of time people going to the Isa and back ran out of fuel, distance 600K and 120 litres of fuel. Guess they were sticking to the speed limit Ha Ha. The vehicles were empty and would have been two up so not much weight, 400k flat country and 200k hilly.
Have a good one
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Follow Up By: Member - Joe n Mel n kids (FNQ - Thursday, Feb 17, 2011 at 16:59
Thursday, Feb 17, 2011 at 16:59
so exactly where are you ?????
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Follow Up By: Rockape - Thursday, Feb 17, 2011 at 21:17
Thursday, Feb 17, 2011 at 21:17
Joe
about 80k south west of
Mckinlay at the bottom of the Selwyn ranges
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Reply By: Dave(NSW) - Thursday, Feb 17, 2011 at 13:57
Thursday, Feb 17, 2011 at 13:57
Geez Rockape,
My Western Star got 2.6ks per liter with a C15 Cat opened up a bit. Your not running an 892 GM in there are you LOL.
Cheers Dave.
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Follow Up By: Rockape - Thursday, Feb 17, 2011 at 14:13
Thursday, Feb 17, 2011 at 14:13
Dave,
Must be a 892 tta somewhere in there, although it is not using a gallon of oil a day LOL.
Haqve a good one
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Follow Up By: Dave(NSW) - Thursday, Feb 17, 2011 at 14:41
Thursday, Feb 17, 2011 at 14:41
Only way to stop a GM useing oil is to wrap it in glad wrap and don't start it LOL.
Cheers.
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Reply By: Member - Bruce C (NSW) - Thursday, Feb 17, 2011 at 17:01
Thursday, Feb 17, 2011 at 17:01
Hi Rockape,
Those figures would have been mainly low gear work would they not.
The
mine you work in is it underground or an open pit.
Cheers, Bruce.
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Follow Up By: Member - Bruce C (NSW) - Thursday, Feb 17, 2011 at 17:03
Thursday, Feb 17, 2011 at 17:03
Sorry mate, I re read your post and you said "underground ute"
Duuhhh!!
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Reply By: brissle - Friday, Feb 18, 2011 at 20:22
Friday, Feb 18, 2011 at 20:22
how long would the engine be running to get 130k ?. A lot longer than 130k on a highway I would reckon!
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Reply By: get outmore - Friday, Feb 18, 2011 at 21:27
Friday, Feb 18, 2011 at 21:27
do you still have both tanks?
84l is pretty much emptying one tank
the one time I tried to work out how much fuel our underground ute used i worked out about 30l per 100 which sounds more like it
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Follow Up By: Rockape - Friday, Feb 18, 2011 at 21:50
Friday, Feb 18, 2011 at 21:50
get outmore,
still have both tanks and I filled both at the same time, then ran on the back one, nightshift changed to the front tank but didn't reset the trip meter. I will retest the ute and see what happens, it may have a leak but it is not showing up with puddles or diesel on the rear of the chassis, it went in for service and they didn't say anything about a leak.
This ute still has plenty of poke and I havn't noticed any smoke, reversing flat bickie I still don't see any smoke.
Have a good one
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Follow Up By: get outmore - Saturday, Feb 19, 2011 at 23:17
Saturday, Feb 19, 2011 at 23:17
Actually ive used up 90l in about 400m
Id just filled up and was driving the causway between 2 sites (one was on an island in a
salt lake)
the
grader had been grading the causway and left a windrow - not too high
i was cruising one side of it but it moved over too close to the edge so i went to jump the windrow
- Too late I saw a big
rock as i was straddling the windrow BANG
I then watched as the rear tank emptied within about a minute due to being sliced one end to the other
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