Oh, very true. I think about them the same way I think about painted DeLoreans, or ridiculously expensive timepieces, and so on. Their money to waste, I just don’t understand it.

I live within 4 miles of my workplace. While I enjoy the work I do, I don’t necessarily enjoy driving past my workplace all the time. Sometimes, it’s good to have a smidge of distance between oneself and their workplace, so they can leave work at work, and keep home at home.

Very, very true, a setup that’s been in use for a very long time now. Still, when those motors demand power, you can hear those generator sets load up heavily to keep up with the demand in power.

So long as it’s built tough, it’s rugged, has beefy looks, and is capable of conquering rough terrain commonly found in Starbucks parking lots and in tarmac surrounding shopping malls, we’ll have room.

That was quite interesting, both in the reading, and in the tools involved. I’ll remember this the next time I have a stubborn bolt holding up my work.

Commodore reference FTW!

Neat! I hadn’t looked it up before, but that’s nifty. Everything I’ve seen about the Sonic shows they were at least trying to cater to the enthusiast.

Good point! Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go shovel some more fuel into the furnace of my pickup truck...

Hey there, fellow sensible pickup driver! Good to know I’m not alone in doing sensible, logical things with my diesel truck.

Err, relatively clean-burning. My exhaust and the fender area around the exhaust pipe are still somewhat dirty, but that happens over an extended period of time. I still roll my eyes about the whole Dieselgate scandal, a newer VW diesel still runs cleaner than an older one from the late ‘70s/early ‘80s.

That’s damn impressive to hear. There was once a day when trucks were some of the sootiest vehicles on the road, science and technology seem to have changed all that though.

Okay, I definitely learned something today. Thank you for that thorough explanation! My thinking was a bit more simplified than what you’ve described.

Ah, uh, true, and a good point you bring up. I’ll sit and ponder that one for a bit, that is a fair point.

100% fuel in the cylinder would definitely be a bad day! Ha ha!

No problem! One bit of advice, if there’s a good motorcycle dealership nearby that sells a good selection of riding gear (or a good riding gear shop like Cycle Gear), go down and test fit the riding gear. I’ve found that when I tell sales people I’m running on a tight budget, they’ll help me find good gear that works…

Exactly. My diesel burns fairly clean (it’s an ‘05, pre-cat and pre-DEF model diesel engine) and it still had no problem accelerating uphill from 55mph to 60 mph while towing a 12K 5th-wheel parachute (also known as a 5th-wheel RV).

30 mpg in...? Where DEF is concerned, I was referring to the larger commercial trucks, not autos or light-duty pickups. And 1 gallon in 6 months? The truck I rented from Budget went through 5 gallons in 1 trip from Florida to Virginia.

Yep, melted pistons are generally a bad thing. I think there’s also the risk of hydrolocking the engine, albeit a small one.

Soot buildup = carbon buildup, carbon buildup leads to hot spots and/or fouling and is killer.

Or powerful trucks...