Problems at the pump
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Problems at the pump
Ok, here is my problem. We have a 99 F-350 and sometimes we will be going on a long trip. We stop at a fuel station, and all they have is diesel for 18 wheelers. As you may know the filler for the 18 wheelers is bigger than the standard diesel filler therefore we can't get diesel there. Does anyone know a way to eliminate this problem? can I put a bigger neck on it to accomadate the bigger size. As always any help is greatly appreciated
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Sometimes these truck stops have a normal size pump mixed in with the gas pumps. I've found this many times.
Also I've found that just barely cracking open the truck pump nozzle will fill OK but you have to be carefull as not to get a bath.
Also I've found that just barely cracking open the truck pump nozzle will fill OK but you have to be carefull as not to get a bath.
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I believe the reason your truck has a smaller neck is to keep you from using one of those high flow pumps. Your owners manual should have a blurb in it about how fast your tank can take fuel, and its no where near as fast as the big nozzle pumps put it out.
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Originally Posted by Bimmerboy1989
Ok, here is my problem. We have a 99 F-350 and sometimes we will be going on a long trip. We stop at a fuel station, and all they have is diesel for 18 wheelers. As you may know the filler for the 18 wheelers is bigger than the standard diesel filler therefore we can't get diesel there. Does anyone know a way to eliminate this problem? can I put a bigger neck on it to accomadate the bigger size. As always any help is greatly appreciated
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Originally Posted by origcharger
I believe the reason your truck has a smaller neck is to keep you from using one of those high flow pumps. Your owners manual should have a blurb in it about how fast your tank can take fuel, and its no where near as fast as the big nozzle pumps put it out.
...I have modified the filler neck and I can pump fuel like a demon at the truckstops larger nozzles.
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Transfer Flow makes fill spouts that let you fill with high flow nozzles. They are not cheap though be prepared. Here is a link. http://www.transferflow.com/ford_fillneck_kits.html
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Here is a link to a page with do it your self instructions about half way down. http://pages.prodigy.net/stevebaz/_i...az/index3.html
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