4 extra gallons......where is it? Look MOM I can read with my eyes closed!!

[Curt Oz]

My window sticker and build sheet show
22 gallon tank

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[AstroZombie]

by hitting 3 twice instead of 2!!

had everyone dreaming for a second here!

 

[Duece McCracken]

Someone please make the above post a sticky or something!


Just in general............

As I've said elsewhere, I have gotten 21+ gallons in mine - I was risking my wife giving me holy hell and living the rest of my natural life being reminded of it, but we were not that far from gas and we knew people in the area (her old home town) so I wasn't TOO worried.
When we left home it said we had 30 miles left. I knew the trip was 25 miles so unless I hot-rodded the thing, we'd likely be fine. It did simply say "low miles" for the last leg of the trip.

I agree with the above - the tank, when bone dry, no usable fuel in it at all, is likely 22 gallons. But rather than people go to a Gladiator forum or fakebook page and bitch and gripe and moan and groan about how their JT left them stranded because idiot engineers told them they has 22 gallon tank and the cluster read "30 miles" remaining and someone assume there was leeway in that number and hit 30 and she died............ they'd rather be bitched at for doing the right thing and giving you conservative numbers.

Imagine the crap in these threads if you saw you had 20 miles left and got a full 22 gallons in a 22 gallon tanks. Man, those designers/engineers would be raked over the coals! They left me stranded!
They know that if it says 30 miles remaining you WILL try to go 40 just knowing that they are lying idiots and fools and they know nothing (and you could do better)

I hear yah! I explained to the wife what I was up to, and she thankfully didn't complain. I was just hoping not to run dry in traffic, that would have gotten me scolded for sure, lol!!!

I dont trust the cluster, which is why I did this little experiment. Wanted to see just how conservative it really is. My last few Fords were all horribly inaccurate in range, but when the light came on, you needed to find gas, lol. The light on the Jeep lets you price shop gas stations for 60-ish miles, lmfao!

 

[ShadowsPapa]

had everyone dreaming for a second here!

I was thinking if figuring out where you lived and paying a visit about 1 am some day...........

 

[ShadowsPapa]

My window sticker and build sheet show
22 gallon tank

If you look down into the filler tube with a match, you, too, can have a 33 gallon tank!

 

[NCIC105]

Perspective indeed. Tell me how many miles you travel on a tank of gas and I'll tell you how many miles I travel on a tank of diesel.

To be honest, prices fell quite a lot within the last week. Yesterday I paid 5.04/gallon of diesel and 4.59/gallon of gas in my wife's JLU. So the gap is not as bad as it was a few months back. Remember when diesel fuel was like a buck cheaper than gas?

394 miles when the gas light came on in my JTOD, and that's on 37s. Stock wheels and tires were 480+ on a tank every time with 3 less gallons than the gasser. I'm OK with that!

I jumped out of the diesel about 8 years ago. I always had a diesel truck in the driveway. Then diesel jumped higher than gas. They said it was because of the need for more diesel for the War on terror. Trouble is it never returned to normal after we withdrew. Friend who works for a major refinery said diesel is one of the cheaper fuels to produce. 1/2 as much as gasoline.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

I jumped out of the diesel about 8 years ago. I always had a diesel truck in the driveway. Then diesel jumped higher than gas. They said it was because of the need for more diesel for the War on terror. Trouble is it never returned to normal after we withdrew. Friend who works for a major refinery said diesel is one of the cheaper fuels to produce. 1/2 as much as gasoline.

Generally speaking, true......... however.....the ULSD is more expensive as it requires more refining. This was required what, about a decade or so ago? It's a lot more expensive to produce the ultra-low sulfur diesel, more steps, more equipment. So while if you step back in time and look at the process at its most simple - simply getting diesel fuel of any sort - it's a lot cheaper. But to make it pass new requirements........ that's different.

Diesel also has several cents more federal tax than gas, there's higher demand for diesel than gas (trains, farm equipment, industrial equipment (so during a boom and construction times, there's higher demand for diesel), and home heating oil competes for the part of petrol that diesel comes from, driving up prices in the winter months.

 

[Mister Lamb]

Rather than start my own thread I'll ask here since it's gas-related... I have a gas can from a little over a year ago that I don't want to run through my generator. Would it be ok to put the 4-5gal in my truck? A fuel stabilizer was used

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Rather than start my own thread I'll ask here since it's gas-related... I have a gas can from a little over a year ago that I don't want to run through my generator. Would it be ok to put the 4-5gal in my truck? A fuel stabilizer was used

I'd run it a little at a time. For example, put 1 gallon in the tank with at least 15 gallons of fresh.
I've done that before with zero issues.
If I end up with extra fuel after the winter of not using the lawn tractor for snow removal as much as expected, I run last fall's fill a bit at a time through my vehicles. Small engines, generators, etc. are more sticky about such things.

 

[Mr._Bill]

Rather than start my own thread I'll ask here since it's gas-related... I have a gas can from a little over a year ago that I don't want to run through my generator. Would it be ok to put the 4-5gal in my truck? A fuel stabilizer was used

I think it would be okay. Pour it in next time you fill up so that it's diluted and mixed with fresh fuel. The big worry is if there is water or dirt in the can.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

I think it would be okay. Pour it in next time you fill up so that it's diluted and mixed with fresh fuel. The big worry is if there is water or dirt in the can.

If the can/container was full, if a stabilizer was used, if it was a closed container - that should help.

That's exactly what I'd do - make sure it was mixed in with fresh fuel.

 

[Mister Lamb]

@ShadowsPapa @Mr._Bill - thank you gentlemen. The can was brand new when the fuel was put in. One of the steel Eagle cans which seal nice and tight.

I ended up splitting the 5 gallons between my truck and the wife's Compass. Topped off the truck with mid-grade just to get some additives in there

 

[ShadowsPapa]

@ShadowsPapa @Mr._Bill - thank you gentlemen. The can was brand new when the fuel was put in. One of the steel Eagle cans which seal nice and tight.

I ended up splitting the 5 gallons between my truck and the wife's Compass. Topped off the truck with mid-grade just to get some additives in there

Good for you - sealed, there's less oxidation and loss of the high parts due to evaporation. The butane is something that is lost more easily, resulting in a decrease in octane, odd as it may seem. So your going with mid-grade was a good choice.

 

[Granitelvr]

Just for giggles. Does anybody know if you could swap the 22 and 19 fuel tank…As a diesel guy, I sure wish I had another 2-3 gallons.

 

[Escape.idiocracy]

I guess I’m missing something. On the Jeep website under specs it lists 22 gallons for the gas model. The diesel model is 19, due to the Space the DPF tank takes up under the rig.

All’s I know, is when I fill up and the pump clicks off, I can slowly get an additional 3 gallons in.

Ours pretty consistently kicks off at around 15 gallons….. and as you stated we can a usually get around 3 additional gallons in. We fill to the top of the neck. Average fill is 18 gallons once the light comes on. Most we have done is 18.5~

two weeks ago it was $5.19 a gallon, last Wednesday it was $4.79

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