Recent Content by PTomlinson

Any neighbors with a diesel and syphon hoses? I know it sounds like a bad joke, but with the price of fuel I wouldn't ignore the possibility. Paul

Not to be a jerk or smart*****, but just how fast do your brothers drive and do they overload their trailers? I've personally driven the Alaska Highway at least 15 times and I've never had a flat tire on any of my vehicles, nor have I ever heard of anyone blowing all 4 tires on one trip. In...

My parents just got in from Vancouver BC last night. The roads from Vancouver to Whitehorse were in pretty good shape, no rock chips in the windshield of the mini-van. Gas was $1. 20 a litre in Vancouver but dropped down to $1. 059 - $1. 099 once they got out of the Vancouver area. My experience...

I switched mine at about 6000 miles, not for economy, but because the manual told me that's what I needed for cold weather. However, it hasn't seemed to hurt the break in process as I got 23mpg (US, it was 27mpg imperial) hand calculated last summer on one road trip. Paul

Yes you can take a trailer, but they charge by the foot. Did a quick online check and it looks like if you booked a ticket with an overall length of 50 feet (truck and trailer), you'd be looking at about $2300 from Bellingham to Haines for the truck, trailer and two passengers in June. Here...

I'm guessing you'll be driving through the Yukon to get from BC to Alaska, right now it's . 959 L for diesel in Whitehorse or about $3. 206 US per gallon. Of course the prices vary wildly up and down the highway. Paul

Stock tank, full to the brim. I don't have the fuel vent mod, but I always get the tank full to the neck, that way I fuel up less often and my calculations are more accurate. I primarily use my truck for highway traveling, and the highest speed limit around here is 62MPH. One trip this...

I can 800 miles out of a tank if I'm empty, on the highway and I take it easy. That's not calculations, that's actual distance traveled. I've done it a number of times, and I never go under an 1/8 of a tank.

Oh that's just my dad wondering why he spent all those years with the camper on his Ford with a 460 :-{} . We were lucky to get 350 miles with that truck with full tanks. He was very impressed, especially with the fact that on the highway I could set the cruise on in sixth gear and climb...

Put the camper on and went hunting last week. The animals and weather didn't want to work with me, but the truck, it just kept going and going... It is so nice to have a vehicle that can go 600 miles on internal fuel and still carry all the gear I need. People talk about how an automatic is...

The North Canol is a road built in WWII in an attempt to get a easier path to Canadian Oil. It is a summer/fall road used by locals for hunting and tourism. The mining and oil industry uses it for exploration. It goes from the Alaska Highway up to the NWT border and beyond, covering a fair...

:rolleyes: So my dad took my 8 foot slide in camper on a road trip up the North Canol road last week. He called me last night to tell me that he hit a section of road that was like a ski jump and got himself airborne at about 15mph. Everyone is ok, but the truck (his Ford thank heavens :p ) and...

Hi Eric, 8100 miles on the truck, built on December 22nd, no flashes. Bought the truck and went on a 3000 mile trip, then hooked up a 4000 pound trailer drove another 2100 miles, and then I was getting good mileage. When driving 70MPH at the begining of the trip I was getting about 17 -...

Ok someone else will call BS on me too, especially since people keep saying that the 2006 6-speeds are doing lousy for mileage. I got 22. 6 MPG last weekend, and yes that's US gallons, hand calculated. Drove up to Dawson and back, 701. 3 miles and took 119. 34 litres (filled to top of the...

I've run my cruise control at 75mph, 70mph, 65mph, 62mph (100km/h) and 56mph (90km/h). All in 6th gear, most empty, but 2100miles of that was with a 5000 pound trailer behind me. No surging at all. Seems funny for them to say that to run 55mph empty without surging you have to run in 5th at...