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Signal73 said:
$750 a gallon???
$7.50 I presume?
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yeah, there is a decimal in there. I just didn't use it.. :)

We saw $2.50C a litre a few obscure places in Northern Canada.. which equates to about $9.50C a gallon, with exchange rate about USD $7 a gallon.
but it isn't like you have very many choices where to buy fuel.. I remember seeing a gallon size of milk somewhere and it was almost 20 dollars C.
funny to look at the pump and the dollar amount grows exponentially while the volume amount crawls northward like a turtle.
 
Grumpy8811 said:
yeah, there is a decimal in there. I just didn't use it.. :)
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We all knew that - we just couldn't resist...,

I grew up in Fairbanks. My folks operated a small gold mine for over 20 years on Linda Creek, about 20 miles north of Coldfoot. My first trip on the Dalton Highway was in my 1991 Ford F150 with a newly installed (by me) Cummins 4BTA engine. Left Colorado in early June of 1991 with about 500 miles on the new engine and drove to Prudhoe Bay. The round trip put over 10,000 miles on the engine. Of course, it operated flawlessly.

I am envious of your travels - looks like you get to see some awesome country.

- John
 
I almost ran out of Watson lake area I can’t remember. New truck 28 gallon tank. Dinger went off and we went a long ways on e. Finally came to a Petro Canada station pulled into the pumps my visa would not work hers either. Told my wife we would just crawl up in the camper and go to sleep. A over the road trucker came in we gave him cash Canadian money and he put it on .his card Twice on that one trip we pulled into stations that were out of fuel. Either they didn’t pay their fuel bill or something. Very dirty pumps fuel all over the ground. Probably not the best or clean fuel tank etc. Heck of a way to break in a brand new truck. Carry spare filters. . Stoped at the Hot Springs north of Whitehorse. We used to love to go there but somebody seen a gold mine there and fancied it up Won’t be going back
 
Turbo Terry said:
I almost ran out of Watson lake area I can’t remember. New truck 28 gallon tank. Dinger went off and we went a long ways on e. Finally came to a Petro Canada station pulled into the pumps my visa would not work hers either. Told my wife we would just crawl up in the camper and go to sleep. A over the road trucker came in we gave him cash Canadian money and he put it on .his card Twice on that one trip we pulled into stations that were out of fuel. Either they didn’t pay their fuel bill or something. Very dirty pumps fuel all over the ground. Probably not the best or clean fuel tank etc. Heck of a way to break in a brand new truck. Carry spare filters. . Stoped at the Hot Springs north of Whitehorse. We used to love to go there but somebody seen a gold mine there and fancied it up Won’t be going back
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yeah, I discovered that little tidbit about Petro Canada cardlocks the hard way.. no visa works there.. that Auxiliary tank I have gives me a range of 800 to 900 miles pulling the 5th wheel.. farthest I have ever went on one tank pulling the RV is from Tupelo MS to Bradenton Fl.. unloaded I can drive from Miami to Detroit and partway back. Nice thing to have.

yeah.. as far as the fuel filters go, only time in my trucks life I got a low rail pressure code was on the way back from AK.. I noticed it running a bit rough in Alaska, eventually I got a CEL somewhere around Muncho Lake and replaced the filters in an Alcan rest area. Glad I had two filters with me.
I suspect it was fuel I purchased in Watson Lake in one of those cheesy above ground mystery fuel stops..

There were two stations just outside of Dawson City YT right where the Dempster HWY hits the Klondike Hwy that were card lock only and the electricity was out both times I tried to get fuel there. You cant count on fuel or regular civilization type stuff up there..
 
Cummins12V98 said:
Chemicals no doubt. Found DDT on father in laws farm.
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My father used to farm tobacco down in Tennessee and they would crop spray on an open cab tractor with no PPE. He passed from the big C word, but it was liver cancer. Whether or not it had anything to do with those pesticides who knows. He also did a lot of asphalt work too. Talk about breathing crap in all day. No escape from that.

Remember the stories of him telling me all the boots he melted doing asphalt work and 100F+ long days, coupled with the heat from the machinery and hot asphalt. God bless him.
 
Yes lots of ways to get cancer who knows Crew came last year and redone our driveway. Several men no respirators . Ask owner about it. He said you get used to it .My father used to spray 24d out of the back of a hi trail truck railroad right way I drove the truck no ac he made me keep the windows up hot as hell. He wore a red bandana hankerchief over his nose. I beat prostate cancer 13 years ago.
 
Turbo Terry said:
Yes lots of ways to get cancer who knows Crew came last year and redone our driveway. Several men no respirators . Ask owner about it. He said you get used to it .My father used to spray 24d out of the back of a hi trail truck railroad right way I drove the truck no ac he made me keep the windows up hot as hell. He wore a red bandana hankerchief over his nose. I beat prostate cancer 13 years ago.
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The stuff we use today isn't the same that was used 50 years ago, totally different materials. Today tarmac is absolutely not harming your health. It's just a smell, nothing more.

This https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycyclic_aromatic_hydrocarbon isn't part of asphalt anymore. Prohibited by law, even recycling of asphalt containing it is prohibited.
 
Turbo Terry said:
So breathing asphalt is now good for you. Ok good I will follow him around next summer. And 24d. Good or not
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Not harmful is not the same as "good for you". There are things in nature that do no harm (depending on dose), nor any good passing through our bodies.

As far as 24D.....it all depends on the dose. Dose is what matters, there is a safe level for everything (with the exception of lead in the bloodstream) and a toxic level of everything.
Example, caffeine is far more toxic to humans than glyphosate.
 
Jim W said:
Maybe I am getting old (75) and cannot comprehend how any of the last page and 1/4, fit into Ram trucks eating batteries.

Maybe I missed something?
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the effect you mention ( topic drift) is the Turbo Diesel Register equivalent of Godwins Law.
 
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