for starters, check your odometer, if you didn't when you swapped the rear gears, then skip using the granny gear and keep a light foot, that'd be about normal with the original 3.90 rear, should do better on the highway unless you're trying to run high speeds

Bill


Moved over to the Passing Lane

"When we tug a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world" ~ John Muir
"When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" ~ me
Some TF series details & TF heater pics