Is 10 MPG Possible with a Fully Loaded (80K gross) 5 Axle Truck?

I got back in yesterday around noon with it raining and decided to take Craig up an offer to hang out at MicroBlue Racing all afternoon that turned into 8 pm at night for a very impressive learning experience on just how the process works with the micro-polishing and the coating applied.

Seen some tractor pull stuff, legend car parts, Harley Davidson flat track racing and even a 6 cylinder boat racing motor ready to be micro-polished and treated. They have several big vats with ceramic media of various sizes that does the micro-polishing with a chemical media process that has the vat vibrating at a high rate to polish the parts that then went to the paint booth where the parts were all coated that dried as soon as hit the metal.

Got to talk to JW on the phone when he called in with his order for wheel bearings and even another trucker called and ordered some too. All these in between calls from a drag racing engineer, a pro tractor puller, a legend car tuner and even a British engineer from an Indy Car Team.

Even met at the end of the day a truck driver from nearby Hickory, NC that bought 2 rear ends in to be done that were Arvin-Meritor who had heard MicroBlue discussed on Kevin's show. I hope to have some pictures of his rear end gears MicroBlued posted on here that had around 1.2 million miles on them.

It was an interesting and very impressive visit that I felt honored to see some high tech racing technology that could highly benefit the Trucking Industry in huge way. It has me really pumped up for my future rear end install with MicroBlue treated parts.

I would like to thank Craig and Kyle at Microblue for the honor of the personal tour.

FYI: MicroBlue is starting to stock some of the more popular wheel bearing sizes for big trucks.

 

From yesterday's visit:



That ring gear had around 1.2 million miles on it before it was MicroBlue polished and coated.

 

I am having two brand new rear ends disassembled to have MicroBlue polished and coated next week to reassemble and have in my truck by August 1st for further testing and if I did not believe it would improve my MPG in a big way I would not be going to this expense.

I asked the same question about new or used to the reman shop and to MicroBlue's owner with both telling me to go brand new for the best results even though a remanned rears would be $900 cheaper.

I am after 10 mpg with my dedicated run that I feel is very possible if not more.

 

I asked the owner of MicroBlue about doing this and he agrees with you about it, but it will end up in the bottom of the oil pan and not on the metal. They spray it on and it dries on contact with a tough bond to the metal.