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Diesel cheaper than gas where you are?

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Figured I'd ask you all about this on here since we are the diesel faithful.

Hoping diesel stays cheaper than gas, even as prices rise. Anyone seeing it increase? Mine jumped from $2.11 to about $2.56 in the past week or so but that's a smaller jump than gas took.
 
What is it there?

BTW, got a favorite diesel additive up there? I'll need to pick something up as I'm having a hard time finding ACES now.
 
Diesel here is $0.82 per litre, gas at the same station is $1.05 per litre. Roughly a 20% difference...

Stanadyne additive works well, but I've used pretty much all of them. Just depends on where I'm able to fiund it when i need it.

Rene
 
That's about the way it is here, $2.92 for 87 and $2.59 for diesel.


I forget what I used before I got the ACES from 4by4bygod but it was literally the ONLY thing here. I visited every single autoparts store looking for the stuff you guys recommended in 2006 and the only one any of them in Traverse City, MI had was the same damn thing that no one recommended...wtf?
 
Power service is good stuff. white bottle in winter, silver bottle in summer. small red bottle if you're gelled.
 
Locally diesel is $0.71 a litre, and gas is around $0.92 a litre. It is signficantly cheaper for my to run my Duramax than any gasoline equivilent vehicle.
 
So Power Service gets a recommendation now? In 2006 when I bought Big Ugly it got a few "meh" reviews. I checked and it's what I have...about all you can get here. I'll be interested to see what I can get in Seattle.

Anybody else putting a lube in with the additives? I was putting an ounce of ND 30w in with each gallon of gas in addition to the PS. Now it's just the ACES Diesel Supplement.
 
I've always used power service. heard always good reviews about it. tried stanadyne, and a few others like it cheap stuff. I always drift back to power service. I comfortible with it.

I've used 2 stroke ashless snowmobile oil in my old 24v cummins. it really quieted it down...like alot quieter. nothing I've ever used did the same thing. but i didn't stick with it. it was like CW-3 ashless or something like that. must be ashless. it was actully kind of wierd how much quieter it was.

I burn filtered used motor oil in my VW cut with diesel. thats just cuzz i'm a cheap SOB and i get all the free used oil I can handle at work. at about 50/50 ratio. the IDI diesels will burn just about anything.
 
I was told at the time that the ULSD would play havoc with the old diesels and the ND 30w was for lube. Also told that the PS was decent but some folks had issues with it not doing the additional lube work it was supposed to.

I'm having a hell of a time getting more of the ACES stuff. I love it but unfortunately it's hard to find in quantities less than a gallon...and that's expensive. I just need stuff to get me from Seattle back home.
 
what engine are we talking about here anyways?


Who told you ULSD will wreck older injection systems?
 
I forget, it was on here September-October of 2006ish.

6.2L's naturally. I now own two of them.
 
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right of course :doah: 6.2s


Ok. heres what it boils down to, if the engine was born a compression ignition diesel burner.............pickup the diesel nozzle and fill the tank and let 'er buck. you won't loose injection system service life from any clean pure diesel from a pump (as long as theres no water in it) I work in the field, diesel engines in OTR trucks every day. old ones new ones foreign ones. bottom line is none use fuel additives. and engine service lifes haven't changed from LSD to ULSD. its not cost effective.

now regular joe guy in the pickup buys into the hype that the snake oil sellers spin. its a good story don't get me wrong. they got science fine. you can pay a scientist to tell you anything you want to hear.


I only use anysort of additive when it gets really cold in the winter. and I'm spotty with it in the summer. casue I know i don't need it but it kinda makes me feel better.


moral of the story...........you won't kill your diesel engine by burning diesel fuel. no matter what anyone says.
 
Good to hear. I have noticed Big Ugly runs better with the ACES. Then again it raises the cetane level a bit. Might just try and run without it for a while.
 
Oh btw last week ......... the flying J near my shop was diesel 0.69c liter and 0.95c liter for regular. thats a big difference if you convert that to gallons.
 
So basically what's the diff between ULSD and the **** that's been in the tanks since 1986? I've heard everything from ULSD would kill the old diesels instantly to what you said - it won't do anything.

I'm definitely not a fan of all the crap done to diesels since ULSD came around but I blame that more on the EPA and Government than ULSD itself.
 
Kill it instantly... not a chance. A slow death to the IP... maybe and that is a big maybe... but we are talking about trucks with high miles anyway. Around here they are adding 5% bio diesel to the mix to help with lubrication of the IP though so I don't run any additive.

You don't need any additives to get you home. But you can buy what ever is on the shelf at the truck stops. BTW, diesel was ~$2.70/gal and 87 octane is ~$2.75 last I saw.

Also, on your trip back, are you running I-90 to I-94 across MT, ND, MN, WI?
 
Yeah, sounds right.

Random related question...assuming I spend minimal time in Seattle traffic and construction...5-6 hours worth of driving on that route should have me where Wednesday night?

I'm hoping that the Blazer's IP was rebuilt with the new seals...Viteon I think it is called? Also kinda hoping that Big Ugly had it's stuff replaced as well. They were supposed to do that with the CUCV's starting in the 90's but it's hard to say if they did it or not. Mine has the DOT 5 master cylinder cover but DOT 3 in the system.
 
That should put you in Spokane/Idaho boarder which is about 6 hours from Seattle.

Best places I've found to get fuel are in Northern Idaho just after crossing the state line (at least 20 cents/gallon cheaper than WA). Just about anywhere in Montana. Then again crossing the state line into North Dakota. Then fill up again in Fargo before you get into Minnesota.
 
Sounds about like what my buddy said. I hear stopping in Coer D'whatever for a hotel is a bad idea. He says the hotels are expensive there.

I figure if I can get 5-6 hours or so in the first night I can probably be back at Mom and dad's Friday night. Wouldn't be much more than 13-14 hours of driving per day then.
 
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