<VV> Tire Pressures with Modern Tires

[Mel Francis]

Glad to see you are doing this in small increments that you can test.

My wife's '01 Sable's gas mileage responded really nicely to 39- front and 
34- rear.
She's up to 28 mpg, highway now, before, around 24mpg.

I've also used 38-front, 24-rear in my '78 Ranchero for years, since it 
balances
out the nose-heavy feeling somewhat. Same pressures in my S-10, the daily 
driver.

Mel Francis

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Mikeamauro at aol.com>
To: <ronh at owt.com>; <>
Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2008 2:14 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> Tire Pressures with Modern Tires


>
> "... Why?  Solid, rock hard tires went out in the 30's and the loss  of
> traction and ride quality make going back to them a complete  loser..."
>
> These are not your run-of-the-mill, narrow, stock size tires... I've been
> running the higher pressure (38-rear, 24 front), with this set of tires, 
> for
> about 20,000 miles. I rotate front-to-back about every 8,000 miles. The 
> wear  is
> perfect across the tire surface and the ride is not at  all harsh. I'll
> either keep the pressures where they are, or try going up a  couple of 
> pounds,
> more, and see what happens... "if you always do what  you've always done, 
> you'll
> always get what you've always got."  Recently,  by working outside the 
> envelope
> with carb float levels, I was able to get  otherwise stock--inherently 
> rich
> running carbs--to operate near  stoichiometric.
>
>
>
> Thanks to all who provided useful comments. As I always do, I'll report
> back. (Bob Helt... I haven't forgotten about checking for a gas dam in the 
> NAPA
> #M3988 fuel pump; I'll check and report back when I get the time to do 
> so.)
>
> Cheers...
>
> Mike Mauro
>
>
>
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