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Any body have an early 2000's f250 with the 5.4 and a 5speed 4wd? Or have any experience with them? I am looking at one, but you never really know what the fuel milage is without spending some time with one. I mostly do highway driving as I dont live real close to anything so that is what I am looking for.

I had a 2003 F250 4WD, but with the auto transmission. I did a lot of highway miles intermixed with a lot of off-highway miles. On the ranch, 14 mpg was about tops. Most tanks were closer to 12--that was running around with minimal use of 4WD. On the highway, 16-17 mpg was the norm, running with no cargo and no trailer. Add a double axle 4-horse goose-neck and 12 mpg was about the maximum. Hope this helps.

I had a '98 F-150 3.73 rear end (auto)

Best I ever saw was just shy of 19 traveling in Wisconsin (where you obey the speed limit)

Could quite often push 16-17 empty, usually around 15-16 and pulling a 16' bumper pull horse trailer with a horse or two I was doing about 8-9 traveling 60 ish.

Other MPG's were 60-65

Thanks guys that is about in line to what I was expecting. I wanted to know first hand experieces, not what the companies say it should get.

I have had a 99 F350 , single rear wheel, short wheelbase, vrew cab, 5.4, 4x4 auto with 4.10s and 256/75-16s for about two years now. Around town, its gets 10mpg. On highway trips, it gets about 11.5 to 11.7mpg. I just got back from a 1000mi round trip hunting trip, and it averaged 11.5 mpg, hand calculated.

I'm looking at an SPD Y-pipe and 3" single exhaust with a Flowmaster in the near future. Everything I have read says if you can free the exhaust up, you can get 1-1.5mpg increases.

Real world mileage on my 2000 V-8 4X4 Tundra extra cab w/ work shell, mostly around town driving, average so far this year: 11.3 mpg on regular unleaded.

2003 Ram 2500 5.9 Diesel stick. From front range to Utah and back about 1K miles few miles 4X4 average 19 mpg.

2000 Chevy 4.8 5 speed... 17.5-19
2008 Dodge Ram 4.7 6 Speed 16-18
2011 Ford 5.0 18-20

98 Ram diesel, 5 sp , 3:55 rear. 21-22 highway and 14 solid pulling a 20 ft loaded gooseneck.Now if diesel fuel was not 75 cents a gallon more than gas,I would be happy.

Oh and incidentally I lost 2-3 mpg on everything as soon as the winter blend fuel hit also. So dont panic. Happens every year. I am pretty fired up about the Ford getting mileage like that on the winter blend.. will be solidly in the 20's in the summer.