Removing drive shaft for better fuel economy..

lol.

 

10/4

 

10/4.

 

Interesting didn't think of that but right there would be considerably more ware on the front drives. Good stuff.

 

It is a joke question. I was just wondering what others thought as I had heard of other drivers doing this successfully. Sounded like a load of bs to me and from the reply's it is verified.

 

Ok, tell me if I'm hearing you correctly. So I'm hearing you say that there is always power going to all 8 drives all the time in general driving conditions and the only thing you can change is in locking the differential. Is this right? I thought that only drives that received power full time were the front drives and the rear only when engaged. I'm probably showing my ignorance but it's worth it to learn.

 

Absolutely. This is something I have recently learned with running my own rig. I started running 65 instead of 70 and my mileage went from 6.5 to 7mpg. Funny when your a company driver you think it will be so nice to have my own truck with no governor and I can run the speed limit all the time but then you don't figure in the fact that you will be paying for the fuel which will be significant according to how fast you run. Now that I'm running my own truck I run it slower than I ran my company truck lol and I'm glad to do it, especially when I see my pay difference at the end of the week.

 

10/4. Learn something every day.