Brutal fuel mileage

[Jbenso127]

Ok. Maybe we neex to differentiate the type of driving. I can get on a big road set the cruise in my old ass 7.3 with 6" lift and 35's and roll at 75 and get a hand calculated 20mpgs. But combined driving, aka, real life style simulated driving you arent going to get 20+. Especialy if its pulling anything which is rare for most.



Unless you live within eyesight of an interstate the ten miles to get to one is going to average out your mileage numbers.



Keep it coming!

Lol yeah around town, I agree, they (6.4) are pigs. Not to mention how tempting it is to hammer on the throttle when people around town are messing with you. But I do live next close to an interstate and do a lot of highway driving traveling for work. Even the around town driving in the LBZ is around 17mpg.. The 6.4, not so much lol.

Derail over lol.

On topic though... What is winter fuel? I'm from Florida and haven't heard of a difference in the fuel for different times of the year.

 

[TyCorr]

Its a mythical excuse for bad mileage from "the good old days". They used to blend #1 and #2 to increase the point at which the paraffins would become insoluble and begin to crystalize, aka, gel. Kerosene costs too much around here and no place I fuel even has blended fuel(1&2 together, hence the blend nomenclature). FS' "faststop" uses sureflow which is powerservices white on steroids. The shell station has power services added to their dyno diesel and unbeknownst to me they sell bio diesel year round but its doped with crap to keep it liquid. Poor cboice, imo.

Ive asked a lot of places and nobody in the good old midwest actually coughs up the exorbitant price for kerosene to blend in with the diesel, #1 & #2 respectively. I mean nobody. My dad hauls fuel from the Mobil refinery, can you say huuuge, and said they dont blend anything there either.

Kerosene is 4.35 gal here and diesel is 3.59. Doesnt make sense to use an additive that costs more than the fuel. :shrug:

 

[lincolnlocker]

Its a mythical excuse for bad mileage from "the good old days". They used to blend #1 and #2 to increase the point at which the paraffins would become insoluble and begin to crystalize, aka, gel. Kerosene costs too much around here and no place I fuel even has blended fuel(1&2 together, hence the blend nomenclature). FS' "faststop" uses sureflow which is powerservices white on steroids. The shell station has power services added to their dyno diesel and unbeknownst to me they sell bio diesel year round but its doped with crap to keep it liquid. Poor cboice, imo.

Ive asked a lot of places and nobody in the good old midwest actually coughs up the exorbitant price for kerosene to blend in with the diesel, #1 & #2 respectively. I mean nobody. My dad hauls fuel from the Mobil refinery, can you say huuuge, and said they dont blend anything there either.

Kerosene is 4.35 gal here and diesel is 3.59. Doesnt make sense to use an additive that costs more than the fuel. :shrug:

Only need a quart or so per tank on a sulerduty. But a gallon of power service cost $16. So thats a LOT more expensive then diesel.

live life full throttle

 

[TyCorr]

I just got gallons for 8$. But anyway....

I wasnt talking retail prices. I was talking about what the retailers pay. Stations get a penny or three for any fuel they dispense so thats not really a motivator. Additionally retail price on power services white is marked up so far that its sickening. Obviously if stores will.do runs on it from anywhere from 6.99-8.99. They are still making $$ on a gallon of something that cost them $3. That will treat 1000 gals. A gal of 4.35 kerosene will treat about 70gal of diesel down to 0°. Any lower and the ratio drops to 5:1.

Kerosene costs way more.