Best 4x4 vehicle for very long trips in remote wilderness

I agree, I have a 89 4x4 1-2 Burb with 3.73 gears and stock sized tires with a smooth tread (Michelen LT tires rated at 50 PSI) that I have had since it was new. It has 175k miles on it and it has never left me stranded or broke down on more than a dozen cross country trips and themost recent cross country trip was to Colorado in 2003 when I put on 4500 miles in a little over 2 weeks. It has a 40 gallon tank and has fantastic range. 600 miles on a tank is quite doable and 500 miles plus is a piece of cake with a lot a reserve left over. I visit relatives in SC one or two times a year and I can make the 565 mile trip down there from Ohio on one tank with no problems. I plan to take it to Colorado and Wyoming this summer. 1991 was the last of these great road beasts as the newer models have more things to go wrong with them and carry less fuel though a burb in the 92 to 96 range would be my second choice with its trouble free TBI injection system. One word of advise, they will do a lot better on MPG if you use better fuel. I get as high as 19 MPG with mine and it still gets 17 even when running 75 mph with 93 octane fuel and base timing set 8 BTDC. When it was new and fueled with 87 octane it struggled to get even 15 MPG and wanted to ping to even at stock timing of TDC. Set as above it has great power and responce too with its 350 TBI motor. Also the TBI motors allow you to tweat the base timing for best performance with fuel type and albreastude while the newer muiltport models do not. (when I am in CO area I set the base timing at 12 or 14 BTDC and it helps a lot in the thinner air as the ECM does not do as well on its own).

On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 07:25:23 -0800, Matt Mead