This one had a floor shifter 2wd, 4wd, 4wd lo range.
Highway miles, maybe? Probably not around town or rural roads.
Dang, my 5.7L Hemi, 4x4, crew, 2019 Classic, with 1 size up on tires, ATs, gets between 18.5-19.9, almost all rural roads. Now, those are 60 mph rural roads, and no major hills. I know when we go to north GA, those hills eat the gas.
My 2016 still has a floor shifter for transfer case. Now every thing is push button on a friends
I would like to agree with you, but the electric ones are very reliable. Buddy of mine owns a truck shop and repairs floor shifters that tend to get jammed or stuck, especially if the owner don’t use 4x4 enough.
Not pulling a trailer my truck gets between 18- 20+ a little over freeway speeds. Rare occasions I use in town truck gets 16 or so mpg not pulling anything or putting the hammer down in stop and go.
Gmc did a pretty good job of making a handy trimmed out storage tray around transfer case shifter. I've never had manual transfer case shifting problems weather it was one of my previous old Toyotas or my GMC. However a transfer case mounted external speed sensor went out on it a few yrs ago the Allison went into a limp mode and either started out in a higher gear 3rd I think and only went up to the 4th gear max.
The Mercedes W-116 was the first production car in 1978 that had four wheel ABS, though my first car, a 1991 Volvo 440 1.7, didnt have it. My next was a 1995 turbodiesel which had it as standard, and every other since the mid 90s
Having a front wheel drive family car or a lifted truck doesnt say anything about, if you get stuck: It just dictates WHERE you get stuck.
It's very hilly where I live, in fact the back of our house looks out onto the slopes of a ski resort. So that could be part of it.
I think you're the first person I've ever heard say that! I hate the things, but not out of principle, it's just due to the horrible implementation:
I don't remember all of the details, but I do remember my buddy used to constantly complain about the ABS on his aggressively-driven Nissan Sentra SE/R. It would blindly and simultaneously pulsate pressure equally on two or even all four wheels, any time just one wheel locked up, which used to drive him nuts.
It's very hilly where I live, in fact the back of our house looks out onto the slopes of a ski resort. So that could be part of it.
I will also say that my wife and I get very different MPG's in the same vehicle. I remember one fun little Audi A3 2.0T we owned about 20 years ago, it was her daily driver for her long commute up and down the turnpike, over some big hills into the Lehigh Valley. Her trip computer would usually read about 29 mpg, but one afternoon of some spirited driving with me behind the wheel on local roads, it'd be down to 19 mpg.
I think you're the first person I've ever heard say that! I hate the things, but not out of principle, it's just due to the horrible implementation:
- Unpredictable operation. When working on a vehicle up on jack stands or a lift, a manual transfer case can be shifted into neutral, and you know it's in neutral. Every time I need to put one of these electronic transfer cases into neutral, I have to pull out the manual(s) or spend ten minutes between Google and fighting with the correct combination of key position and a pencil into a tiny reset style button on the switch cluster, to actually get the thing into Neutral. It's just a stupid unnecessary PITA.
I forgot that step: why should I have to go dig up a pen, just to put my TC in neutral?!?
In any case, it doesn't work like that on mine, but maybe it's a sign I got a bad switch. I always have to try it multiple times, with the key in different positions, and even then it seems when it finally unlocks it's using some combination I'd already tried twice before.I'm sorry, I thought this was a thread about "a good basic truck, like the old days"!
It also depends on who is driving. I used to take my 2wd pickups places where everyone said I needed 4wd. I've also gotten my 4wd trucks stuck in places I should not have been...Having a front wheel drive family car or a lifted truck doesnt say anything about, if you get stuck: It just dictates WHERE you get stuck.
Though, there are some offroad trucks that if they do get stuck, youve got to bring a crawler to get them out
I switched an old chevy truck from power back to manual steering when my power steering belt broke. I replaced the belt soon after.I forgot that step: why should I have to go dig up a pen, just to put my TC in neutral?!?
Point is, a floor shifter is easy and as reliable as concrete, and always operable in the dark without taking your eyes from the road.
If given the choice, I'd still be driving a manual transmission with a manual transfer case. I switched brands from GM to Dodge just to get that combo, back in 2005, but it doesn't seem to be available from any maker today. It's not a huge deal, but I will always favor manual control over automatic, in just about anything. Heck... I switched one car from power steering back to manual, in the late 1990's!
I'm sorry, I thought this was a thread about "a good basic truck, like the old days"!
Power steering with a broken belt and manual steering are two very different animals. The power steering hydraulics add a ton of drag, and the ratio is usually much higher, such that lock to lock might be half as many turns.
