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Jim · #**4361** 10-18-2009, 11:25 AM

Problem with insulating it is it will only retain heat for a VERY short period of time. Foam has about a Max R-value of about 3 and thats for foam about 2"thick!. If its 20° out, the fuel in your fass may stay warm for an hour instead of 30 min without insulation. What about fuel in the head, lines, pump and tank? If its parked overnight, no insulation you can put on there is going to keep from gelling up.
As far as driving down the road and Gelling up insul wont help that either as wind chill wouldn't apply to your vehicle as it would to human skin.
Kind of a waste of time and effort IMHO, use a good anti-gel additive and hopefully you will come out fine.

12PACK · #**4362** 10-18-2009, 11:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Signal73

IMHO, use a good anti-gel additive and hopefully you will come out fine.

I'd keep a bottle of this in the truck, too. http://www.mwfi.com/Fuel-Additives/P..._Diese_911.htm

Do you have a winterfront, yet?

sooter · #**4363** 10-18-2009, 02:11 PM

you shouldn't have to worry about fuel gelling in NH unless you take warm weather fuel from down south to northern NH on a cold day. even then only a little PS or something would be needed.

johnnyboy_10138 · #**4364** 10-18-2009, 02:15 PM

Check the pvc pipe insulation on mcmastercar.com I think that is the right url. The have some insulation with lower r values. They also sell soft rubber heating elements that you could wrap your fass in. I think they use about 10watts per square inch, so it isnt that big of a power draw.

ktmcowboy · #**4365** 10-18-2009, 02:21 PM

ill have to look into it, but dont think ill have the time considering i gotta leave in about an hour or two lol. so ill have to bear with everything and hope she starts everyday lol

95ctd · #**4366** 10-18-2009, 03:46 PM

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Originally Posted by HRSEPWR

Seth, that avatar is almost as disturbing as the actual video!!!

its been my avitar for the longest time tried other ones but cant find a better one

sooter · #**4367** 10-18-2009, 04:26 PM

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Originally Posted by ktmcowboy

ill have to look into it, but dont think ill have the time considering i gotta leave in about an hour or two lol. so ill have to bear with everything and hope she starts everyday lol

why wouldn't it????

ktmcowboy · #**4368** 10-18-2009, 04:34 PM

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Originally Posted by sooter

why wouldn't it????

gelled fuel, can't plug it in. etc. however, i do have new batteries and a new starter, so hopefully taht will help, i just gotta go pick up some Power service somewhere that wont cost me an arm and a leg.

off to NH guys, unless i hop on someones computer at school i likely wont be back on till next weekend, at which point ill see ya guys at seefood!

killed300ex · #**4369** 10-18-2009, 06:45 PM

tried putting a piece of rubber between the bracket and frame?? Thats what came with my fass and never had much noise from it at all

96dodgectd · #**4370** 10-19-2009, 07:22 PM

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Originally Posted by killed300ex

tried putting a piece of rubber between the bracket and frame?? Thats what came with my fass and never had much noise from it at all

wasnt the topic insulation?

Aweik02 · #**4371** 10-19-2009, 10:17 PM

Yeah, Insulation not Isolation.....

ktmcowboy · #**4372** 10-20-2009, 08:50 PM

well i've given up on the INsulation idea haha, if additive dont work im SOL.

turbo246 · #**4373** 10-20-2009, 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by ktmcowboy

well i've given up on the INsulation idea haha, if additive dont work im SOL.

throw a good amount of the red bottle of power service in and it will never gell. I throw it in all my tractors/trucks, never plug one in and never seen any gell. Once when it was like 0*out i compared it, there was power service in one tractor and not in another, the one without it started and gelled in like 3 minutes, the tractor with it, never gelled, its good stuff.

DCreed · #**4374** 10-20-2009, 08:54 PM

park it close to a window so you can plug it in.

and keep some 9-1-1 in it just in case.

95Cummins · #**4375** 10-21-2009, 04:09 PM

I saw ya drive by today JP, You were probably looking to see if my truck was there, but I live right next to the shop now so I don't drive it to work. Your rig's lookin good

Diesel97 · #**4376** 10-21-2009, 04:48 PM

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Originally Posted by 95Cummins

I saw ya drive by today JP, You were probably looking to see if my truck was there, but I live right next to the shop now so I don't drive it to work. Your rig's lookin good

Ha Ha I was with him and he said lets go see Dave,then he said aw chit his trucks not here.

1JP · #**4377** 10-21-2009, 05:26 PM

Figured you get up at the "Crack of Noon" since it's the family business

I waved to your Dad, he was in the bay

Thanks!

95Cummins · #**4378** 10-21-2009, 08:49 PM

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Originally Posted by 1JP

Figured you get up at the "Crack of Noon" since it's the family business

I waved to your Dad, he was in the bay

Thanks!

haha not quite, I still meander over at 8 o'clock six days a week... though I do have Friday off

ktmcowboy · #**4379** 10-23-2009, 03:01 PM

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Originally Posted by DCreed

park it close to a window so you can plug it in.

and keep some 9-1-1 in it just in case.

That wouldn't work, i can't park at the place i stay, truck too big, there is an overpass type deal i would have to fit under (part of the building, stacks too high) so i gotta use PS and 911 and see where it gets me lol.

DCreed · #**4380** 10-23-2009, 04:33 PM

That sucks.

ktmcowboy · #**4381** 10-23-2009, 07:45 PM

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Originally Posted by DCreed

That sucks.

tell me about it, i gotta walk like almost a block just to get to my truck lol. the excersize aint gunna hurt me, but its just a pain in the ass! lol not like i can let my truck run for a few and go back inside on them cold days, no, gotta sit there, and wait! lol

97dodgectd · #**4382** 10-23-2009, 08:12 PM

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Originally Posted by ktmcowboy

That wouldn't work, i can't park at the place i stay, truck too big, there is an overpass type deal i would have to fit under (part of the building, stacks too high) so i gotta use PS and 911 and see where it gets me lol.

so your saying if you trim the stacks you can plug your truck in?

Warpig · #**4383** 10-23-2009, 08:15 PM

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Originally Posted by 97dodgectd

so your saying if you trim the stacks you can plug your truck in?

For once you said something I agree with

95ctd · #**4384** 10-23-2009, 08:21 PM

Flat cuts with flappers

ktmcowboy · #**4385** 10-23-2009, 09:55 PM

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Originally Posted by 95ctd

Flat cuts with flappers

nah, turnouts bullhaulers and aussies belong on pickups, single mitres are pushin it, all else on a pickup is a crap shoot, and i like my stacks the way they are, never get lost in a parkin lot. and its different, i dont wanna be like everybody else lol.

95ctd · #**4386** 10-23-2009, 10:01 PM

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Originally Posted by ktmcowboy

nah, turnouts bullhaulers and aussies belong on pickups, single mitres are pushin it, all else on a pickup is a crap shoot, and i like my stacks the way they are, never get lost in a parkin lot. and its different, i dont wanna be like everybody else lol.

Thats why you see so few Cummins powered trucks on the road

Jim · #**4387** 10-23-2009, 10:14 PM

DCreed · #**4388** 10-23-2009, 11:30 PM

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Originally Posted by ktmcowboy

nah, turnouts bullhaulers and aussies belong on pickups, single mitres are pushin it, all else on a pickup is a crap shoot, and i like my stacks the way they are, never get lost in a parkin lot. and its different, i dont wanna be like everybody else lol.

I can make up some short stacks for the winter and then swap back in spring?