Diesel Question for truck campers

valhalla360 wrote:

JumboJet wrote:
New Nissan Titan - Cummins 5.0 diesel
New Toyota Tundra - Cummins 5.0 diesel
New RAM 1500 - "Italian" 3.0 diesel (8,000 first run dealer orders placed)

More cars getting diesel engines.

I might not have slept in a Holiday Inn Express last night, but I surely doubt that the manufacturers and dealers would be excited to sell diesel powered vehicles if a fuel source was scarce (See CNG powered vehicles).

Proactive people plan fuel needs before they ever go on a trip. Starting in Salem, OR I traveled US20 from Albany, OR to Boise, ID in 2011 with my Lance 1050S. You can't get much more scarce towns and stops than that nearly 400 mile road. I didn't have any problems finding diesel.

Fuel source either way is a silly discussion for RV's. You can get diesel at most stations and gas trucks can cover reasonable distances.

Unless you cover insane miles and don't stop to take breaks, getting fuel and having enough range is an academic subject at best.

aka; mental masturbation.

I recall a certain poster here that ran bio in their diesel and then had a problem when they did not change their filter. Since then they have done their best to shoot down diesels...

xxx wrote:
The injectors went at about 150,000 miles so I had used a lot of fuel.
Some was bio blend diesel but I stopped using bio after it gelled in a cold snap and I paid to have an injector flush to get it going again.
We have driven the truck all over the place including Mexico and Canada so it's run a lot of diesel through the injectors.
Yes GM did extend the warrantee for 7 years and 200,000 miles. Alas my truck was 8+ years old at 150,000 miles so GM would NOT cover it.

It's like the Guys that chip their trucks and then drag race them. Pretty soon they are complaining that brand x sux because I blew a head at 40k miles.
Really? Pushing 1000 hp? Who would have thought?

As always...don't believe everything you read on the interweb...