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Jarlaxle wrote:64thunderbolt wrote:Sport45 wrote:Should we start a petition to ask Obama to make gasoline illegal by executive order?
If you own a gasser you are destined to a life of driving in the slow lane, the solvent properies of the fuel make the oil useless, your vehicle will burst into flames in an accident, and your babies will be born nekkid. ![[emoticon]](http://www.coastresorts.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/smile.gif "smile")
No but he could get the price down a little. LOL. I'm not bashin gassers just makin a point. Like I said in a previous post everyone has different wants & needs. If a gasser meets your needs and that's what you want by all means buy one. We have a guy that camps with us drivin a 3/4 T Chev with a 454 towing a 5er. WOW is he late getting to camp. But it's what he has and obviously it works for him. Some buy new every few years I choose to keep it forever. This thread has brought out lots of info, heat, and a little humor along the way. I enjoying the sparring. At the end of the day I just hope everyone tows safely and has a good time doing it in whatever vehicle you choose. Y'all have a good night. I'll be back tomorrow for another round.
A 454? So the truck is, what...15 years old? SERIOUSLY?!?! That's like saying diesels are slow because you compared a 30-valve V10 to my 7.3 IDI F-350!
My SD is 14 yrs old and what's your point?
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Jarlaxle wrote:Steakman wrote:Wow... I cannot believe that this thread is still ongoing...been through 3 different trailers since I first posted on it..LOL.
Well all I can add at this time is that now, at 250,000 miles, many a gasser would be sitting by the wayside...and I can say with good certainty, my truck will still be pulling whatever trailer I have well into the future. $ for $, and if you can afford the up front cost & know your way around a set of metric wrenches, diesel is the way to go - handsdown.
The one thing I would really like to see in our country and province in particular is a set of regulations ensuring that those that pull, are pulling with a vehicle designed to pull said trailer and have the proper hitching system installed and in use.
Too often on the Highways of Alberta and BC I see a Front Wheel drive SUV pulling a ~23+ trailer and even though it may be set up with a Class IV hitch, the thing is usually weighed down by passengers (wife+kids) 4 bikes on the back and to me looks like an accident waiting to happen.
my $ .02 at this stage of the thread. I'll be back....
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I watched a gasser go lots of miles in one of the toughest applications out there: an F-550 repo truck. Engine was replaced with 553,000 miles.
How is that a tough application? Hook a 25,000# cattle trailer to it and run it for 553,000 miles and see how many motors you put in it.
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transamz9 wrote:Jarlaxle wrote:Steakman wrote:Wow... I cannot believe that this thread is still ongoing...been through 3 different trailers since I first posted on it..LOL.
Well all I can add at this time is that now, at 250,000 miles, many a gasser would be sitting by the wayside...and I can say with good certainty, my truck will still be pulling whatever trailer I have well into the future. $ for $, and if you can afford the up front cost & know your way around a set of metric wrenches, diesel is the way to go - handsdown.
The one thing I would really like to see in our country and province in particular is a set of regulations ensuring that those that pull, are pulling with a vehicle designed to pull said trailer and have the proper hitching system installed and in use.
Too often on the Highways of Alberta and BC I see a Front Wheel drive SUV pulling a ~23+ trailer and even though it may be set up with a Class IV hitch, the thing is usually weighed down by passengers (wife+kids) 4 bikes on the back and to me looks like an accident waiting to happen.
my $ .02 at this stage of the thread. I'll be back....
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I watched a gasser go lots of miles in one of the toughest applications out there: an F-550 repo truck. Engine was replaced with 553,000 miles.
How is that a tough application? Hook a 25,000# cattle trailer to it and run it for 553,000 miles and see how many motors you put in it.
A lot more than 50% I would say were empty miles. The past 50K on mine have been about 90% with a 12+K touhauler towing in the mtns in extreem heat. Doesn't compare.
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64thunderbolt wrote:Agree, but I still want the gassers to keep to the right on the hills so I don't have to slow down for them. me too, all summer I park in the right lane at 65MPH and it seems like gassers have to prove something by blasting past me then they cant make the hill and start to slow then I catch up and pass them. I think most have the power to make it up but they might not like the sound of 5500rpm, because it is louder then my radio when they go past
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Dang...I haven't checked this thread for a while and I was sure you guys would have this worked out by now. Diesel vs Gas...the question with no definitive answer.
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jevanb wrote:64thunderbolt wrote:Agree, but I still want the gassers to keep to the right on the hills so I don't have to slow down for them. me too, all summer I park in the right lane at 65MPH and it seems like gassers have to prove something by blasting past me then they cant make the hill and start to slow then I catch up and pass them. I think most have the power to make it up but they might not like the sound of 5500rpm, because it is louder then my radio when they go past
So gassers towing TT's and 5th wheels are so popular that you encounter them all summer? In all our travel over the decades, we don't see that many that we're sharing the hills with them, much less that many gassers. We do however encounter many diesel powered OTR tractor trailers doing exactly as you describe. Can be annoying. Story time does stoke the imagination though...
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Hannibal wrote:jevanb wrote:64thunderbolt wrote:Agree, but I still want the gassers to keep to the right on the hills so I don't have to slow down for them. me too, all summer I park in the right lane at 65MPH and it seems like gassers have to prove something by blasting past me then they cant make the hill and start to slow then I catch up and pass them. I think most have the power to make it up but they might not like the sound of 5500rpm, because it is louder then my radio when they go past
So gassers towing TT's and 5th wheels are so popular that you encounter them all summer? In all our travel over the decades, we don't see that many that we're sharing the hills with them, much less that many gassers. We do however encounter many diesel powered OTR tractor trailers doing exactly as you describe. Can be annoying. Story time does stoke the imagination though...
Not that many but when you are held up for miles it seems there's too many. On the interstate it's no issue but on miles of well traveled 2 lanes with 6/7% pulls, some as long as 9/10 miles constant it gets frustrating.
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waynec1957 wrote:Dang...I haven't checked this thread for a while and I was sure you guys would have this worked out by now. Diesel vs Gas...the question with no definitive answer.
This is what makes this thread so much fun. I drive what I want and I assume everyone else does also. It's fun to debate. Just like I have said before "keep your gasser to the right"
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transamz9 wrote:Jarlaxle wrote:Steakman wrote:Wow... I cannot believe that this thread is still ongoing...been through 3 different trailers since I first posted on it..LOL.
Well all I can add at this time is that now, at 250,000 miles, many a gasser would be sitting by the wayside...and I can say with good certainty, my truck will still be pulling whatever trailer I have well into the future. $ for $, and if you can afford the up front cost & know your way around a set of metric wrenches, diesel is the way to go - handsdown.
The one thing I would really like to see in our country and province in particular is a set of regulations ensuring that those that pull, are pulling with a vehicle designed to pull said trailer and have the proper hitching system installed and in use.
Too often on the Highways of Alberta and BC I see a Front Wheel drive SUV pulling a ~23+ trailer and even though it may be set up with a Class IV hitch, the thing is usually weighed down by passengers (wife+kids) 4 bikes on the back and to me looks like an accident waiting to happen.
my $ .02 at this stage of the thread. I'll be back....
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I watched a gasser go lots of miles in one of the toughest applications out there: an F-550 repo truck. Engine was replaced with 553,000 miles.
How is that a tough application? Hook a 25,000# cattle trailer to it and run it for 553,000 miles and see how many motors you put in it.
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jevanb wrote:64thunderbolt wrote:Agree, but I still want the gassers to keep to the right on the hills so I don't have to slow down for them. me too, all summer I park in the right lane at 65MPH and it seems like gassers have to prove something by blasting past me then they cant make the hill and start to slow then I catch up and pass them. I think most have the power to make it up but they might not like the sound of 5500rpm, because it is louder then my radio when they go past
I think the "something to prove" is in the eye of the beholder. Maybe they are simply getting a run at the hill.
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