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Gallons Per Hour
- Thread starter jmsull
- Start date
langer1
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Mineral City,Ohio
5 gal?
carmike692000
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- North Carolina
No clue, but what are you planning on doing that you want to know? Just curious...
Yucca-Man
NAXJA Member # 683
- Location
- Castle Rock, CO
Let's see....at 16mpg, and 75mph...you do the math. I know the answer already, but let's see if you can do the calcs.
Jim
Jim
alpinetiburon04
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Severn, MD
I bet 3.86938 gallons. but that was at .997382 hours. Sorry.
TheNerd
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- San Diego, CA
NOT IT testing! But I bet you would burn less than 1 gal/hr. at idle....I'm going to go with a bet of 1/2 gal/hr. So on a full tank, your Jeep would idle for almost 2 straight days...
Gerr
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- River Drive Norco Ca 92860
If i base it off of the gas welder at work id estimte about .3-.4 galons an hour. for high idle .15 for low idle I imagine a engine thats larger but more eficent would be simular
rumblebelly
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- FT COLLINS, CO
Plan on getting stuck in a snowdrift anytime soon?
Yucca-Man said:
Thanks douche, I can do the mpg when the car is moving, but I said IDLE, no miles per hour, no miles per gallon, NO MILES WHAT SO EVER, standing still, idling in park.
Thanks for everyone else that answered with out being a smart a$$.
For those who wonder why I ask, I live in Chicago, and usally have ten of fifteen minutes to burn before work, so I sit in the car and read. Now that its colder I'm keeping it running for the heat. So I was just curious what it was costing me.
Menzenski
Formerly Mambeu
It shouldn't be too hard to test this. Fill your tank, idle for fifteen minutes, and then fill up again. Multiply the amount of gas you put in by four, and that's about how much you would burn in an hour.
kubtastic
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Tacoma, WA
I guess around 1 cent/minute. Maye 2-3.
zfinger
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Boulder, CO
Well the other night I let my 97' 4.0 idle for 2.5 hours, and started at 3/4 tank exactly, ended one bar lower. No Idea how much that is, but I lost one bar in 2.5 hours.
Jeffro600
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Cheyenne, Wy
zfinger said:
Wow, i think somethings screwy there...arent cherokees fuel gauges in 1/4 tank increments(to lazy to go check :laugh3: )? You burned a 1/4 tank in 2.5 hours? I dont think i burn a 1/4 tank when wheelin for 4-5 hours!
zfinger
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Boulder, CO
I'll go count in the morning, but I have like 10 or so little bars.
Purple
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Idling gets you nowhere, keep in mind you are polutting air as well.
Yucca-Man
NAXJA Member # 683
- Location
- Castle Rock, CO
Well screw you too...jmsull said:
What is it with uptight asses on
recently? Someone take away their bottle? :rattle: Jim
Yucca-Man said:Well screw you too...
What is it with uptight asses on
Jim
If your going to post some smartass comment like "I know the answer already, lets see if you can do the calcs" I think you should expect a response like mine, especially if you didn't even read the post in the first place.
In my experience on this board, people like you, jump at the first chance to say " hey your an idiot, I'm so much smarter than you", well half wit, your the idiot.
How in the world is calculating 16 mpg at 75 mph going to give me the answer to how much gas the car burns at idle in park. I want to see that calculation. You said you already know so lets see it. Is it 4.6875 gallons per hour, seems a little high for standing still.
Maybe you would encounter so many "uptight asses" if you offered constructive help, instead of trying to belittle people. I already know the answer to this, lets see if you can figure it out.
MyJeepXJ
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- SW Virginia
This thread is entertaining, but I dont think its finished yet, so Im gonna keep watching it.
- Location
- Harrisburg, NC
jmsull said:
chill out dude! Maybe he mis-read your orig. post....people do make mistakes you know. And before you go around bashing Jim on "smart ass" comments, you might want to go and do some reading on this site of all the useful information and help he's given alot of people, including me. So if it seems like they're saying " hey your an idiot, I'm so much smarter than you", guess what??, given the circumstances, you are an idiot, and they are much smarter than you are, because they've probably been here longer.
Oh, and if you plan on hangin around this site much longer, you're gonna get picked on. It's like a big brother pickin on a little brother. But it's all in fun (if you choose it to be, how you take it has alot to do with the funness). You'll still never find a better bunch of people to hang with than fellow Jeepers, period!
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