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From: Where Critters Are Free
Originally Posted by Matts72
I hope you guys are planning on making biodiesel in your basement.... diesel here is 3.79 a gallon, regular unleaded is 3.09 a gallon.
Yeahhh The price of fuel is killing me..I would love to run my Diesel more but we are paying $3.60 here per gallon.
Laughing Gas
Joined: Nov 1999
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From: 15 miles west of Venus
Originally Posted by superdutyjoe
Putting a 466 in a light duty truck? Are you mad? Do you know how much a 466 weighs?
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From: Montana Territory
Originally Posted by superdutyjoe
I'm going to be putting farm diesel in it which is about 50 cents cheaper a gallon.
You get caught with that in this state, and the fine is $25 per gallon of capacity, even if you only have two gallons in your 40 gallon tank, you get the fine for 40 gallons.
Cargo Master
Joined: Feb 2003
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From: Sacramento
Originally Posted by Scot
I guess you didn't see the guy with a c series Cummins in a Ford pickup? His name was c-seriesman or something. There are pictures on turbodieselregister. Last I saw, the truck was on ebay.
http://www.freewebs.com/nevrenufhp/additionalpix.htm
it's almost half way down the page. Quite inspiring to say the least.
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From: Midland
Yeah, I know about the fine but so far nobody around here has ever had their tanks checked. The neighbor has been running off road diesel in his Dodge for around 15 years now and has been pulled over numerous times, even by the weighmaster and they never look. His truck even has the farm name on the door. Now with semi's and grain trucks they check every one, but to bypass that you add a little used motor oil to the fuel to make it black and they can't prove a thing.
Those are some sweet pictures of the trucks with the 8.3 and the 466. I think those engines are great but that is still, in my opinion, too much for a light duty truck. But regardless of my opinion, it's still cool to see.
Those are some sweet pictures of the trucks with the 8.3 and the 466. I think those engines are great but that is still, in my opinion, too much for a light duty truck. But regardless of my opinion, it's still cool to see.
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From: Midland
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From: Where Critters Are Free
Originally Posted by Matts72
You get caught with that in this state, and the fine is $25 per gallon of capacity, even if you only have two gallons in your 40 gallon tank, you get the fine for 40 gallons.
In my State that is a $2500 fine and the Truck get's towed
Fleet Mechanic
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From: Green Springs, OH
Around here you get fined too but dont know why. The only difference in "offroad" diesel is the red dye they put in it so what is the big the deal anyways. My uncle borrowed my dads truck a few months ago and filled it with offroad diesel at the co-op cause he is always looking for a cheap way out my dad was ticked off and told him if he got caught my uncle was paying the fine.
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From: Midland
The big deal between red dyed off road fuel and the on road fuel is the amount of tax that is on it. The off road fuel does not have the "road tax" added into the cost of it. The reason the government gets so pissy and feels they need to fine you for it is becasue they aren't getting their cut. What I don't understand is why they dye the diesel fuel but not gas. We have been buying off road gas, or gas without the road tax, for years and we run it in everything. We had a C65 Chevy with a 427 in it and at 2-3mpg you could not afford to run anything else.
Now watch, due to the patriot act the government is reading this and now they are going to come busting in here and arrest me.
Now watch, due to the patriot act the government is reading this and now they are going to come busting in here and arrest me.
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From: Long Island USA
Originally Posted by Ford-Trucker84537
just a note here, i will not be doing the conversion til the 5.4 dies, i dont know that it will soon because im looking in to puting a new timing belt in it
