Well as all of you know it's pretty dang cold up this way today!!! I don't have a temp gauge in my truck but I was told it was anywhere from -15 to -30 in my area today.
Truck was plugged in all night long to keep her nice and toasty. Went out to start it up before heading to work and it fired right up no problems! Let it sit out there and idle on diesel for about 20 minutes. Hopped in to leave for work a few minutes early (not common on a Monday morning!!!). I notice fuel pressure is not where it should be... uh oh. I take off down the road and make it about 1/8 mile, truck starts losing power and sputtering and shuts off. I coast to a parking lot and pull over. I turn the motor over for about 20-30 seconds and it finally catches and fires back up. It's rough, so I let it just idle for a minute and fuel pressure starts coming back up (still low though). I turn it around and baby it back to the house. Pull fuel filter and slosh some diesel 911 on them. Pour remaining diesel 911 into tank, add whatever kerosene I had at the house here. Start it back up and take off again... didn't even make it to where I originally got, but it didn't die. For fun I tried flipping over to WVO on the vegistroke, but pressure dropped even more!!! (I think tank was really low or just not warm enough yet) I babied it along at about 5-10mph (painfully slow when traffic is behind you!) and made it to the closest station in town with diesel/kerosene.
Side note: At the fuel station, there is two matching company trucks. A 6.4 ford at the pump which wont even start, and a new 6.7 powerstroke which is sitting there running beautifully... nicely done Ford!
The 6.4 is towed away from the pump with the 6.7. I pull up, and proceed to fill the vegi tank (it's a very small amount of mostly diesel in the tank right now) with Kerosene. I hop back in truck and flip up to auto, to my surprise fuel pressure shoots up to 70psi and truck idles beautifully! Took off and pressure stayed solid between 60 and 70 psi (depending on how hard I mash the skinny pedal) and drove all the way to work. Pulled in, did a quick purge in the parking lot, and shut it down! Without the vegistroke I would have either missed work all together today and spent the day wrenching on the fuel system in sub zero temps, or been really late to work. Now I can safely drive to work (where I'm at now) and back home, and wait til tomorrow when it warms up 50 degrees and reaches a high of 30 and change fuel filters then!
Two thumbs up for cold weather vegistroke action, and two thumbs up for the new 6.7 powerstroke!
Truck was plugged in all night long to keep her nice and toasty. Went out to start it up before heading to work and it fired right up no problems! Let it sit out there and idle on diesel for about 20 minutes. Hopped in to leave for work a few minutes early (not common on a Monday morning!!!). I notice fuel pressure is not where it should be... uh oh. I take off down the road and make it about 1/8 mile, truck starts losing power and sputtering and shuts off. I coast to a parking lot and pull over. I turn the motor over for about 20-30 seconds and it finally catches and fires back up. It's rough, so I let it just idle for a minute and fuel pressure starts coming back up (still low though). I turn it around and baby it back to the house. Pull fuel filter and slosh some diesel 911 on them. Pour remaining diesel 911 into tank, add whatever kerosene I had at the house here. Start it back up and take off again... didn't even make it to where I originally got, but it didn't die. For fun I tried flipping over to WVO on the vegistroke, but pressure dropped even more!!! (I think tank was really low or just not warm enough yet) I babied it along at about 5-10mph (painfully slow when traffic is behind you!) and made it to the closest station in town with diesel/kerosene.
Side note: At the fuel station, there is two matching company trucks. A 6.4 ford at the pump which wont even start, and a new 6.7 powerstroke which is sitting there running beautifully... nicely done Ford!
The 6.4 is towed away from the pump with the 6.7. I pull up, and proceed to fill the vegi tank (it's a very small amount of mostly diesel in the tank right now) with Kerosene. I hop back in truck and flip up to auto, to my surprise fuel pressure shoots up to 70psi and truck idles beautifully! Took off and pressure stayed solid between 60 and 70 psi (depending on how hard I mash the skinny pedal) and drove all the way to work. Pulled in, did a quick purge in the parking lot, and shut it down! Without the vegistroke I would have either missed work all together today and spent the day wrenching on the fuel system in sub zero temps, or been really late to work. Now I can safely drive to work (where I'm at now) and back home, and wait til tomorrow when it warms up 50 degrees and reaches a high of 30 and change fuel filters then!
Two thumbs up for cold weather vegistroke action, and two thumbs up for the new 6.7 powerstroke!