Loren Busch wrote: > ...An acquaintance of mine that used to drive a cherry '90 Westy, 4 > speed, and > never got above 55, consistently got 21 to 23 mpg. And she put a lot of > miles on her rig before selling it and going to something bigger.
Indeed, I suspect one reason my 84 got so many trouble-free miles out of the original engine (220K) was because the speedo was so far off (indicated 72 = actual 55) that we always thought we were going much faster than we were. I knew it was off but didn't fully appreciate by how much. Geo
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