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as an automotive mechanic by trade, these little suckers have always had a place in my heart. Bless the fleet teams that keep them running! the LLV is powered
by nimbius 8y ago
as an automotive mechanic by trade, these little suckers have always had a place in my heart. Bless the fleet teams that keep them running!
the LLV is powered by one of these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Duke_engine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Duke_engine
technically its a pontiac engine, but its powered a ton of stuff including the 92 Chevy Lumina. parts for this engine are almost free, and you wont find a cheaper fleet vehicle other than maybe Crown Victoria.
Mileage...people are complaining about 10mpg but forget to mention this is a V4 and geared at the mission to haul 1 ton of cargo. coming from the shop floor of our diesel engine repair building, 10mpg for a 4 cylinder iron block mail truck is good. freight trucks are often lucky to see 6.
Your lumina engine however is geared much more respectably and will see 18-22 city/highway.
- jandrese 8y ago10mpg with almost all stop and go is really not that bad. Most non-electric or hybrid cards would get terrible mileage doing mail routes all day.
- war1025 8y agoUnrelated, but I really enjoy coming across your automotive posts.
- bluedino 8y ago>> V4 and geared at the mission to haul 1 ton of cargo I’m sure you made an honest mistake, but a V4 is very rare - the Duke was an inline-4. I had one in a 1984 Fiero, and even in a small car like that it was lacking in power. Not that it didn’t have bigger problems, like catching the damn car on fire, which they recalled them for. Somehow that engine ended up in the even larger Firebird/Camaro...