You got 30mpg in a 3500HD diesel towing 8K? How the heck did you manage that? I have a couple of friends that have HD diesels (for their horse trailers) and they don't get above 20mpg even without the trailer.
5klbs towing cap with gas range extender?
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You got 30mpg in a 3500HD diesel towing 8K? How the heck did you manage that? I have a couple of friends that have HD diesels (for their horse trailers) and they don't get above 20mpg even without the trailer.
3500HD Chevy Express with a WWII searchlight behind. No idea how, but the '97, '98 &'99 models all pulled the same mpg with the same 6.5L Duramax. Those vans were pretty much empty shells that only pulled 24mpg unladen, but they consistently pulled 30mpg with the trailer back there, pretty much 100% highway mileage, driven overnight. I'm guessing something about the large round searchlight helped aerodynamics, but each fill up was tracked, gas receipts, etc. I really liked driving those vans for some reason.
Almost identical to this setup, genset up front, carbon-arc light on the back:
