Why diesel trucks?
Judging from my other two posts a lot of folks that responded drive DRW diesel trucks to carry the heavier multi slide campers. I understand the DRW for heavier payload but why diesel? Just looking at...
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jaycocreek wrote:Kateg1 wrote:
Diesel #2 (summer blend) has gelling point about 10F, so it would take 0F overnight to bring tank to this point (will wary with wind chill).
That would be fine where you live maybe but not where I live/lived and play..It is common to get -25F or more in our mountains..When my diesel gelled I had to go 20 miles to get a winter blend/#1 diesel..I had to put a tent over my diesel truck to warm it enough to get it to run that 20 miles and I had a gas engined pickup following with a good chain.
By the way,I get almost the exact gas mileage you have in your signature for your '17 Ford with my TC loaded and from Missoula to Kooskie over the pass(Lolo) then another grade(Harpster) to get home..11.6 mpg hand calculated for my 460 Ford DRW but with only 4K for a TC...
Diesel for your needs and gas for mine..Go figure we both have different needs and uses for our TC haulers and the different area's we use them in.
I get it, you don't want an oil burner pickup, but I could come up with different (trivial) issues with a gas engine. I grew up and have spent many other years where it can and does get -25deg. You'd have to try hard to hit your scenario of fill up one day with summer fuel and be below zero the next day. That actually happens in Kaytegs area, though. Rip up out of Vegas on a 70 deg December day and hit the backside of the Uintas that afternoon and it's below zero. But guess what? Every fuel station out of town once you get around the state line has a big sign saying "WE SELL WINTER DIESEL HERE."
And apples to apples, a EFI 460 doesn't get the same mileage as a comparable diesel. That is almost laughable. You two may have gotten the same claimed mpg but there was a difference in load, wind resistance, speed, terrain or all 4 to get one to equal the other.
Good thing is, they make both flavors. I'm not downplaying one against the other, it's just silly though when someone tries to defend their preference with outlandish claims. No different than the diesel guys who claim 22mpg in their Duramax Dually with stacks!
