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dont forget to treat your fuel

chevyCowboy

chevyCowboy

I might be crazy but i ain't dumb
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I was on my way to work this am and i started my truck, fired right up went inside to let her warm up, left went to gasstation to get breakfast, still running fine. headed toward work got maybe 1/4 mi and started sputtereing and smoking white, got pulled over and it died. spent the next 2hrs and 2 bottles of Diesel 911 trying to get it started, ended up haveing to have my buddy drag it back into town to another buddies heated shop where we spent another hour with a torpedo heater under it added 5 gal of fresh fuel and finally got it going. The moral of the story is dont trust blended fuel make sure you treat it. I bought fuel on monday at a cenex station and it was supposed to be 50/50 blend. guess i learned my lesson.
 
Power Service White in the colder weather
Power Service Silver in warmer weather
Stanadyne all year round.
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6* with a -9* Wc. i used to always put a quart of 2stroke and about 1/3 of the big bottle of howels per tank. but due to short funds lately i havent been doing that.
 
im sure that i got bad fuel because i have not added any antigel all winter and it has started and run fine and we have had temps down this low before and even lower. maybe it was blended and it had a little water in it and that froze in a line. When it first died i could hear the LP run but i was getting no fuel out of the Fm bleed screw.
 
PS Arctic formula in the winter for my old hack...every fill.

4 bucks off a bottle right now:

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Been there done that.
Just like you the best way I found to get running again was to add more fuel.
When mine died I knew not to just try and start it again or I would just run the batterys down. I had some fuel that was setting in a 5 gallon can in the back of the truck. I just dumped some PS and the cold fuel in got it started. Let it idel for a few min. Was still running like crap but took off for work. With in a mile it was like somebody fliped a switch. It stopped fogging the hell out of everybody behind me and took off like a bat out of hell. Temp was -6F that morning.
That was the closes the old 6.2 came to leaving me stranded.
 
One should not have to add anything to the fuel,...i never do.
But maybe farm diesel is a better grade,i haven't had a problem in as long as i can remember,..i hardly ever change a filter either.
 
Farm diesel is the same thing you get from the pump, it just has a red dye added to it.

Farm diesel is tax exempt, and meant to be used in FARM VEHICLES, like vehicles that don't go on roads. The red dye is a gotcha when Johnny Law pulls you over on the highway and finds it in your truck's tank.
 
4thesporty said:
Farm diesel is the same thing you get from the pump, it just has a red dye added to it.

Farm diesel is tax exempt, and meant to be used in FARM VEHICLES, like vehicles that don't go on roads. The red dye is a gotcha when Johnny Law pulls you over on the highway and finds it in your truck's tank.
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I wish!,..here its only 6 c/ltr less than OTR.
But Canada is not as finnicky your guv-ments,we farmers can drive our farm vehicles and equipment anywere on it :D
 
You have a guest house?........Can I bring the the Wrecker, Rollback and various other vehicles and equipment?:rolleyes:

Or would a city boy just trip over his own shoe laces?...:ciappa:

I can "Skin a Trout line and Run a Buck!"
:haha:
 
We call it farm fuel but it is really called off road fuel.
In Brooklyn it is probably called constrution site fuel. Contact your local mob boss. Thay can hook you up.
 
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