Ya ready for diesel yet?

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Best I've gotten was a little over 22 at this altitude where the turbo may be a help. However, it's consistently around the mid 17's in a mix of town & rural driving.

no-brainer. Since it was meant to be an occasional hauler(5 years old with about 34K on it) , the gas guzzler was the way to go.>

Although from past experience I learned to HATE diesels in cars, I really love this Power Stroke for it's pulling power and utility Still, hard to get that $6500 back!

The Trtion seems to be a long-distance runner, too. My body guy has one with

450k on the clock (pulls a race car & trailer a LOT). Getting a little tired and starting to use a bit of oil now, but he says other than routine maintenance it's never been touched, says the valve covers have never been off. I'm not expecting this diesel to be anywher near this good!

Whenever I had dieseling on an old car I put it in gear and it quit.

Which worked for everyone else too. The correct fix would have been to put an idle cutoff like on an airplane but that was money. The "anti-diesel solenoid" was introduced in '75 or so, but it tended to fail and you blocked it off or adjusted it to do nothing.

Dieseling wasn't a problem until the smog era as I remember. I have had MANY carbureted cars including VW's, gas Benzes, a slant 6 Mopar, three Chevies, two Fix-Or-Repair-Dailies, an Alfa Romeo, a Kaiser with its original Continental flathead welder engine and several AMC products-two Jeeps, a Pacer, and two original 4WD Eagles. It was a problem only with 70's engines until you pulled the smog shit off. Like you still can in places besides Nazi Kalifornia.

Bret Ludwig did pass the time by typing:

The old C-10 would diesel, solved that problem by spray cleaning the engine bay, putting a new filter in the fuel line, a new gasket under the carb, adjusting the idle down a bit then wiping off all the crud that had built up on the underside of the hood, changing the oil, cleaning the battery terminals, and giving it a nice spiffy wax job before trading it in on the Jeep.

Easiest repair I ever did. Hasn't given me any problems since.

Probably the same thing that happened when the coil wire broke off at full throttle on my Ford. It died and like a big dummy I kept my foot down until I got it over to the side of the road. When I got everything fixed I cranked her up and....KABOOOOOM! All that raw gas got in the muffler and a spark on cranking...new muffler time.

Hardly life threatening.

I can so testify, I get about 14mpg unladen in mixed driving in my 02 Superduty Crewcab v10.

My last

What were you doing, 55 the whole way? Towing my trailer/TJ combo (total almost 6000#) at 65mph nets about 10mpg.

Best I've ever done with it was 18.5 (unloaded of

I could probably do that if I laid off the gas and people flew by me like I was pacing the Indy 500.

Yep, but no power. No ignition. A nitro burning dragster will finish the run, maybe even win, if it sneezes and chucks the mags once launched...but gas engines just poop out and flow raw fuel overboard. WWII fighters with zoomies it's no big deal. Cars, the fuel goes in the muffler.

Jesus H! At the rate I'm going, it'd take me another 60 years to get that kind of mileage on the clock. Woo hoo! Last truck I ever need to buy.

I was running 60/65. I do know that if I exceed 65 the mileage starts to go to hell so I tend to stick pretty close to the speed limit.

Well, if you had propane, that wouldn't be a problem would it?

In most of the world, it's easy. Over here you have to scrounge...but if gas stays higher than propane that will change.

A propane AMC conversion.