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[Dftodd]

I suspect my Ram would trip the pump if it were any faster than the car aisles. Heck, sometimes it trips those, until I withdraw the handle about 1/2" before locking the lever.

The big truck pumps trip for my service truck if I go full tilt. I have to click it to the lowest setting and hold the handle sideways.

The biggest reason I will hit the big truck side is DEF at the pump. It's $4ish/ gallon versus $20+ for the 2.5 gallon jug of def fluid inside the store.

 

[Dftodd]

I'm not a heavy equipment operator, but from what I've seen, it appears steel tracks have no sideways traction... right? If they have any lugs at all, they're usually straight across the tread, at least those I see around here.

Ice really plays havoc with traction on the steel tracks as well.

We had a 1950ish deere dozer when I was a kid.

Dad welded spikes to the tracks for traction in the winter while we were using it to log. If not it would just sit and spin.

 

[Renze]

My pickup is 36 gallons, and when I'm near empty, even that feels like a long wait on a cold windy night.

I take the pump with the high speed button for trucks. 70 liter (18 gallons) in 50 seconds makes my time in the wind minimal. And it gets me another 1300km (800 miles)

 

[Renze]

I went to an ag focused fuel station, since it was closest, needing to fill my 5 gal diesel jug. Dang! made a mess, 'cuz it flowed so fast.

Learned my lesson!

Yes, the dedicated truck stop fuel pumps pistol is too thick, it doesnt allow enough air to flow out of the filler neck without spitting fuel over your hands. The pump with a standard nozzle size, but a high speed button for trucks, is my favourite.

 

[BigBlue1]

I take the pump with the high speed button for trucks. 70 liter (18 gallons) in 50 seconds makes my time in the wind minimal. And it gets me another 1300km (800 miles)

What vehicle do you have that gets 44.5 mpg? That's almost as good as the diesel Chevette my parents had in the early 80's that got 50 mpg before emissions junk came along.

 

[Renze]

What vehicle do you have that gets 44.5 mpg? That's almost as good as the diesel Chevette my parents had in the early 80's that got 50 mpg before emissions junk came along.

Volvo V70 2.4 Diesel, 163hp. A bit quicker than a 50hp Diesel Chevette
I can get 50mpg when commuting, but when i put that 350Nm of torque to hood use, i get a little less. I dont always feel like driving economically. Towing a heavy trailer may half that mileage.

I only mount the DPF on the day it goes for annual inspection, because since 2 years a exhaust gas particle count is part of the safety test. The previous owner cut a hole in it, emptied the catalytic material and welded it shut again, because a few years ago, only having a DPF registered and it not throwing fault codes was enough to be exempt from exhaust gas testing.
So, emissions dont hurt my mileage. Deeper low end torque and a 6 speed improved it.

 

[KennyG]

Volvo V70 2.4 Diesel, 163hp. A bit quicker than a 50hp Diesel Chevette
I can get 50mpg when commuting, but when i put that 350Nm of torque to hood use, i get a little less. I dont always feel like driving economically. Towing a heavy trailer may half that mileage.

I only mount the DPF on the day it goes for annual inspection, because since 2 years a exhaust gas particle count is part of the safety test. The previous owner cut a hole in it, emptied the catalytic material and welded it shut again, because a few years ago, only having a DPF registered and it not throwing fault codes was enough to be exempt from exhaust gas testing.
So, emissions dont hurt my mileage. Deeper low end torque and a 6 speed improved it.

How do you guys usually talk about economy? Kilometers per liter? Liters per 100 kilometers?

 

[WinterDeere]

...almost as good as the diesel Chevette my parents had in the early 80's that got 50 mpg before emissions junk came along.

What emissions components were added to tiny diesel cars in the 1980's? I thought only the gassers were subject to emissions, at that time.

 

[WinterDeere]

How do you guys usually talk about economy? Kilometers per liter? Liters per 100 kilometers?

Liters per 100 km is standard in Germany, and I would guess probably all of Europe.

 

[Rockbadchild]

How do you guys usually talk about economy? Kilometers per liter? Liters per 100 kilometers?

Vehicles sold in metric countries will show liters per 100km. In Canada most people will speak both mpg and L per 100km but I would say since vehicles started to show the Liters per 100km you hear less and less people talking mpg.

 

[Renze]

How do you guys usually talk about economy? Kilometers per liter? Liters per 100 kilometers?

Liter per so many km is what we talk about, though the onboard computer shows liter per 100km.

1 on 20 is about 50mpg
I can get 1 on 23 if i insist, but 1 on 10 isnt unusual when towing heavy (7k pounds)

 

[Renze]

What emissions components were added to tiny diesel cars in the 1980's? I thought only the gassers were subject to emissions, at that time.

I am not familiar with on-road emissions, but offroad emissions didnt get serious untill 1996

Volvo pioneered with the controlled catalyst, with the Lambda sensor, in the late 70s. When the EPA mandated lower emissions, my coworkers 1981 Chrysler had only 180hp from its 5.9, about half of what it did a few years before.

My first diesel, a 1995 Volvo 440 1.9 turbodiesel, had no emission stuff on it, not even EGR. With its 90hp and 1033kg it was quite driveable.

 

[BigBlue1]

What emissions components were added to tiny diesel cars in the 1980's? I thought only the gassers were subject to emissions, at that time.

At some point after the 80's. Not sure when. I'm just saying that the eventual emissions stuff really killed mileage. I just know that little diesel Chevette could get 51 mpg easily and by the 90's there wasn't a vehicle on the road that could get into the 50's and I'm pretty sure there still isn't today. The 44 from Renze is pretty darn high for today's vehicles, AFAIK.

 

[WinterDeere]

At some point after the 80's. Not sure when. I'm just saying that the eventual emissions stuff really killed mileage. I just know that little diesel Chevette could get 51 mpg easily and by the 90's there wasn't a vehicle on the road that could get into the 50's and I'm pretty sure there still isn't today.

I think you're just not paying attention to what was out there at the time. I drove a mid-1990's diesel VW Passat wagon company car for a few weeks in Germany ca.1998, and I'll double-check with one of my old work buddies this weekend, but memory tells me it did roughly 60 mpg from one fill to the next. I remember specifically tracking it, because fuel was so absurdly expensive in Germany, by comparison to here.

It was also memorable to me, because I drive almost exclusively very large displacement engines here (current is 6.4 liter), which are decidedly not fuel efficient. I think the car I drove in USA that year averaged 8 mpg.

I didn't love the diesel Passat, it wasn't exactly a sports car, but it could do an easy 160 km/h (100 mph) on the autobahn. I was only there about 2-4 weeks per year, back then, so always got whatever company car was available at the time.

 

[RobertN]

Liters per 100 km is standard in Germany, and I would guess probably all of Europe.

Do any other country still commonly use miles or gallons any more? A quick web search says US and sometimes UK.

 

[bcp]

Bruce

 

[bcp]

As MPG gets higher, Liters/100km gets lower.

Maybe we should use gallons/100mi.



Bruce

 

[dstig1]

How do you guys usually talk about economy? Kilometers per liter? Liters per 100 kilometers?

Furlongs per fortnight

 

[KennyG]

Furlongs per fortnight

Actually, that's speed. Maybe barrels per league?

 

[California]

You are correct, I have operated dozers on high wall ledges and it has a pucker factor like no other.

You reminded me of a similar near-catastrophe. Guy with the gold mining claim downstream from us had an ancient small bulldozer.

A pine tree had fallen across the narrow cliffside fire trail. Now getting in/out from there to pavement went from what had been an hour, to 3 hours going the long way around.

Guy drove his dozer to where the tree was across the lane. The tree was resting at near 45 degrees from flat with the base up on the left bank, and the right side, top end of the tall tree, hanging off the cliff on the right side.

Guy asked me to come along as a spotter, he knew this was going to be dangerous. He bladed a ramp up to the near side of the sloping tree but there was no way to compact what he pushed to the far side. Then he started to drive the dozer across it.

But with the far side too soft, he teeter-tottered on the sloping tree trunk and slid down toward the cliff edge. He gunned it and just barely made it across, scarily close to sliding off the cliff and tumbling down to the stream far below.

I wish I could get that image out of my head.