Eric (Hummer H1 meme) has a ton of miles on that hmmwv in the pic. He bought it as a total basket case. Other than his two canoes, that is the first time I saw anything different on the roof rack. Haha.
Any of you guys in Cali want to do adventures- Eric is not a “hummer snob”. Be goes wheeling with anyone in any rig and has pulled out a few oops things along the way.
The mpg is the one killer of the hmmwv/hummer. Unless you are willing to diy fuel.
Black diesel runs through the db2 all day long no problems. So you make an additional $1200 investment, and fuel costs are no longer the problem because all your diesel fuel is now 25% the cost. So the end result is like getting 40-50 mpg. Anyone that can get away with a db2 pickup can do it to obviously.
Btw- Erics hummer is around 6,000 lbs how you see it. Mine is 10,000 lbs. Eric drives properly, and when I drive that way I get same mpg, actually doing 65 on freeway I get 13.5 mpg. When I drive foot to the floor from every stoplight, and doing 85 on the freeway- I get 10.5mpg city, 12.5 hiway. I have a buddy that has his weighing 16,500 as a big camper build and tons of gear and parts. Same fuel mileage as Eric unless he goes over 75 mph on hiway. He learned with his tall roof that from 75-85 makes it loose 3/4 mpg. The normal hmmwv roof is at 6’, mine is 7’6”. The camper one is 10’
