wallynm
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I had a special extra 75 gallon fuel tank installed one time to carry fuel for my wife's boat. Plus a few Jerry cans just to make sure we had enough for the week-end. Was not uncommon to run through a 100 gallons or so on a long water skiing week-end. No Marina so we had to carry it in of drive several miles to get it. Boat ran from day light to dark. Come on now I would not exaggerate a little would I.
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A "bomb" really ??? Thousands of gas containers are sold every minute of the day. Gas and diesel is carried in all sorts of vehicles and for so many different purposes on every road every day,safely, never saw one blow up. I and a friend filled the back of our trucks with dozens of containers with hundreds of gallons of gas after huricane Wilma, purchased from a station a hundred miles away, back and forth dozens of times over several days. We didn't blow up...
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bsinmich
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One additional advantage of driving on the top of the tank is that many manufacturers now put the fuel pump in the tank and depend on the fuel to keep it cool. When you get to the bottom half you are exposing the pump to less cooling and this is one of the causes of burning out (read $$$$). Since you will have to buy gas anyhow just buy at 1/2 tank. I don't know who ever had the idea of using a flammable liquid as the coolant for an electric pump but it seems to work.
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tallyo wrote:Once we are at 1/2 tank it's time to stop for a break and for fuel. I never stop overnight without more than 1/2 tank. If fuel prices are up then a 1/2 tank doesn't hurt that much.
X2 give plenty time to stop and refill.not the gas shock.lol
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bsinmich wrote:One additional advantage of driving on the top of the tank is that many manufacturers now put the fuel pump in the tank and depend on the fuel to keep it cool. When you get to the bottom half you are exposing the pump to less cooling and this is one of the causes of burning out (read $$$$). Since you will have to buy gas anyhow just buy at 1/2 tank. I don't know who ever had the idea of using a flammable liquid as the coolant for an electric pump but it seems to work.
If this was the case, then wouldn't the same apply to cars? It doesn't, and it isn't. Also, technically, they don't "burn out"...think about that.
I'm always puzzled by you folks that are "half-tankers"  Our MH has a 70gal tank. I'm not about to make that into a 35gal tank...not when there is abundant fuel available pretty much everywhere in the country ESPECIALLY within 50 miles of your current location.
After filling up the first half-dozen times, I know at any given reading on my gauge approx. how much fuel is left in the tank. At 7mpg, I know that at 1/4 tank (on my gauge), I have 70 miles left. 70 miles. And no, I don't care that fuel on the highway is $.10/gal more expensive. I'm buying 50-60gals. That's $5-$6 more than I might find it elsewhere, but if I have to drive more than 3-4 miles, then the savings is lost anyway.
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So what do you do when your 'spare' fuel runs out? 
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squeakkos
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with a 150 gal tank i start to looking when it gets to half or when we stop for the night I will top it off and wash the windows getting ready for the next day.
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As has been said, why carry extra fuel when I have 110 gallons. If I can't plan ahead 2-300 miles I deserve the trouble runing out entails. I plan 8.0 mpg but get closser to 9.0. A fuel stop every 2-3 days works fine but I try to never get below 1/4 so I don't have to worry about the genny and furnace not working.
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missscarlet9 wrote:For me, I do carry extra fuel. It's located in the bottom 1/4 of my fuel tank. Having 75 gallons in my fuel tank, I know I can get at least 800 miles out of a tank.
My wife and I are in our 4th motorhome and first diesel. Every other unit I've owned I've drained the fuel tank to find out what actual EMPTY is against what the gauge reads. I have not yet had the time to do that to our newest unit. I really should get that done. Running out of fuel in a diesel is a VERY bad thing. And that doesn't change if I carry extra fuel in another tank or fuel can.
With tank full, mark your milage, you know you have a 75 gallon tank, wait until you are about 1/4 full on your fuel gage, stop and refill tank, note milage, and do the math. I know that I still have 10 gallons of fuel in my tank when the low fuel light come on. Thus I have a minimum of 100 miles of fuel to empty.
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chastho
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I carry a couple of gallons of diesel in the basement in case I have to change fuel filters. As for as the bomb theory that would be a small firecacker compared to the 150 gallons in the tank.
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