IDIDieselJohn
0-60....eventually
Well after 8 weeks of being on the road, i'm back in one piece.
The trip went fantastic! We all had our emotional ups and downs together like anybody has.
The old 6.9 has done another fantastic job for the 10th year with us, and our biggest trip ever!
We did exactlly 16,889km (10,555 miles).
Mileage leaving driveway Friday June 25th: 219,072km
Mileage backing up into driveway Saturday August 21st: 235,961km
3 oil changes, 1 done at a closed Sam's Club, and 2 done in Wal-Mart parking lots. Also Changed the fuel filter and air filter in Amarillo Texas heading back East.
The 6.9 burned a total of 8 quarts of oil during this trip. 2 per oil change interval.
The longest we driven non stop is 5 hours. We can't do more no matter what, need to fuel up after 5 hours of highway driving, don't know how big the tank is, around ~30 gallons for sure, it's good for ~500km (315 miles) depending where we are ofcourse (elevation, road conditions, wind, etc.)
I haven't calculated MPG all across the USA yet. I did calculated it in a few different places when I had the chance.
I don't think I'll see anything over what i've gotten all along the coast of California, making 13.6MPG! Not bad for a non-turbo 3 speed diesel eh?
I kept a log along with every single receipt for fuel. Fueled up 54 times.
I will need that log to calculate MPG and know my location during those MPG's.
I'll get to that when I get the time, it won't be right now, gonna take a while before I get to that.
Also bought a map specially for highlighting all the roads we did. I will try and find a good road map on google and highlight the roads to show y'all where we been.
Now before this post gets any longer I'll stop here, pictures, interesting road conditions I been through, MPG's, etc. will all be in other seperated threads.
Hope no one missed me to much while I was gone?
It is great to be back!
The trip went fantastic! We all had our emotional ups and downs together like anybody has.
The old 6.9 has done another fantastic job for the 10th year with us, and our biggest trip ever!
We did exactlly 16,889km (10,555 miles).
Mileage leaving driveway Friday June 25th: 219,072km
Mileage backing up into driveway Saturday August 21st: 235,961km
3 oil changes, 1 done at a closed Sam's Club, and 2 done in Wal-Mart parking lots. Also Changed the fuel filter and air filter in Amarillo Texas heading back East.
The 6.9 burned a total of 8 quarts of oil during this trip. 2 per oil change interval.
The longest we driven non stop is 5 hours. We can't do more no matter what, need to fuel up after 5 hours of highway driving, don't know how big the tank is, around ~30 gallons for sure, it's good for ~500km (315 miles) depending where we are ofcourse (elevation, road conditions, wind, etc.)
I haven't calculated MPG all across the USA yet. I did calculated it in a few different places when I had the chance.
I don't think I'll see anything over what i've gotten all along the coast of California, making 13.6MPG! Not bad for a non-turbo 3 speed diesel eh?
I kept a log along with every single receipt for fuel. Fueled up 54 times.
I will need that log to calculate MPG and know my location during those MPG's.
I'll get to that when I get the time, it won't be right now, gonna take a while before I get to that.
Also bought a map specially for highlighting all the roads we did. I will try and find a good road map on google and highlight the roads to show y'all where we been.
Now before this post gets any longer I'll stop here, pictures, interesting road conditions I been through, MPG's, etc. will all be in other seperated threads.
Hope no one missed me to much while I was gone?
It is great to be back!
Why then? And of course Matthias skirted disaster, stripping all his flywheel to crank bolts about 100 miles after getting home from that trip. You could drive the same mileage locally for years and never have problems like that. 
