glindy
Junior Member
First post here looking for some experiences. Had my Quad 04 off road 3.92 gears,since new and it has ~6x,*** on it now. New it had plenty of power and did around 13/16 mpg.
I have done all services tranny, diffs, tunes,etc on time and recently did factory copper plugs,airfil,fuel treatments,cleaned MAF,tranny filter,etc. But,I'm getting like 10/12 mpg and it has slow response and seems much quieter even with its single exhaust,than it should. It seems to run fine,no smoke,noises,misfires,codes,but something ain't right.
The only mods made were going from factory 275/70/17 to 285/70/17 tires due to costs,which might account for 1-1.5?mpg diff in readings on OD,but it still had great power when first swapped. It still has power to pull a bobcat.tractor and sometimes a 14,*** crawler,but not response like it had.
I had even took it on a ~1000 trip to DC hauling a 900lb bike w small 9' trailer to blow it out,and max mpg on cruise was 12.
Looking for a possible way to increase performance/mpg that won't cost more than its worth. Wondering if the computer itself could be going out of adjustment,or if a bad sensor could be causing it to run this way,I have never had computer adjusted/checked unless the dealer did it during services.
If you have any ideas that might help I'd appreciate it,plan on keeping it till it's a rust bucket(dealer wants it in trade)and then some,because I like it and its paid for.
I have done all services tranny, diffs, tunes,etc on time and recently did factory copper plugs,airfil,fuel treatments,cleaned MAF,tranny filter,etc. But,I'm getting like 10/12 mpg and it has slow response and seems much quieter even with its single exhaust,than it should. It seems to run fine,no smoke,noises,misfires,codes,but something ain't right.
The only mods made were going from factory 275/70/17 to 285/70/17 tires due to costs,which might account for 1-1.5?mpg diff in readings on OD,but it still had great power when first swapped. It still has power to pull a bobcat.tractor and sometimes a 14,*** crawler,but not response like it had.
I had even took it on a ~1000 trip to DC hauling a 900lb bike w small 9' trailer to blow it out,and max mpg on cruise was 12.
Looking for a possible way to increase performance/mpg that won't cost more than its worth. Wondering if the computer itself could be going out of adjustment,or if a bad sensor could be causing it to run this way,I have never had computer adjusted/checked unless the dealer did it during services.
If you have any ideas that might help I'd appreciate it,plan on keeping it till it's a rust bucket(dealer wants it in trade)and then some,because I like it and its paid for.
