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I live in a a remote portion of the desert-no power, etc. It seems to me that I am suddenly 1/4 tank low each morning. Aside from staying awake all night with my winchester 1300 loaded up with 1oz hollowpoint slugs (Given the people that live around here), I need a locking gas cap, I guess. Is there such a thing for a LUV truck? Otherwise, I will have to rig some sort of latch system..

Well, someone could be taking your gas. I know that I've been ripped off many times here at my complex. I try to leave less than 1/4 tank in it now.

But, it could also be a little qwirk these trucks have where they show different level depending on the outside temperature. When it's hotter outside, they show more gas. So it could be that your checking it hot, and then checking it when it's cooler the next morning.

Most of you probably already know this, but a tip for purchasing gas is to do so when the temperature is coolest. I learned this from a trucker in Canada...ah, those clever cannucks..

Liquid fuel in North America (and I think worldwide) is sold in a volumetric fashion (liters, gallons, etc.) NOT by density. We all know gasoline expands with heat, so this is sort of a no brainer. If you buy fuel late in the evening, or early in the morning, you actually get a bit more gas. Ben's comment shows this point clearly. Best time to buy gas in Texas is unfortuantely sometime in February...

Anyway, just a little 'Mr. Wizard' reminder. Any little bit helps, right?

tundrawolf - try http://www.Rockauto.com. The locking gas cap for our trucks is $8.73

STANT Part # 10563 {Regular Locking Fuel Cap - 2 5/8" Non-Vented (1 3/8" x 1 23/64" Shallow Cam)}

The fuel gauge in a Luv is not exactly a highly tuned piece of electronica, so I'd guess Ben is probably right about what's going on. But for less than $10, it doesn't hurt to lock it up.

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At $4 + a gallon, stealing gas is going to be a common thing more and more. Just like the crack heads going into new and vacant houses stealing all the copper wiring and plumbing to sell to the scrap yards to get money for drugs. Some idiots in the Denver area have been drilling holes in the bottoms of gas tanks to drain them.

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RIP R.J.B.

I got a locking one at Autozone for $14.99.. I don't have credit cards or paypal anymore so I had to do this. I really hope I get this job on Monday, if not it's back to collecting cans out of the garbage! Pray for me guys!

Dont just collect the aluminium ones. Scrap steel is up over $300 a metric ton here.

I have been saving our drink cans up here. I have all so been saving metal tins and lids etc.

I pull the odd car apart and sell a few bits. Ive got 44gal drums here with the tops cut out. I put everything in em, if its metal it goes in. Then when i have a car to go off to scrap i upend the drums into it.

Theres 3 drums for steel, two for ally cans and one for electric motors. I have got some plastic tubs for extruded and cast alloy and copper and brass.

I have been doing ok out of it. Since i stopped work as a truck driver i have been topping up on my welfare with taking in scrap while i am being retrained. Ive got rid of all the stuff i had here and i am now looking further abroad.


Bob

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Current project, 1979 KB Isuzu Ute.

Daily driver, '86 Rodeo Spacecab.
Chasing parts for Isuzu Impulse.

My problem was that somebody stole my gas cap, the ultra-rare '74 type with 1" filler opening! Good news was that I scrounged through a junk yard 2 months later and found a cap on a badly wrecked LUV.

Got it home and when I started to put it on, hey, wait a minute! Had some marks and paint on it that I recognized: it was my own old gas cap! The scumsuckin, slimeball, lowlife stole my cap, then totalled his truck: there is a God

It disappeared again 2 months later, never have found a replacement....

LOL Jimmie..

I live in the rural desert, so people taking my gas is not all that out of. So for 2 days in a row I was suddenly 1/4 tank lower from when I went to sleep from when I woke up. I put the locking cap on and suddenly now I am at the proper level. The people who own the property don't believe me.. They think the donkies would have woke me up-not necessarily. The say the dogs would have woken up-not if it's so hot they are in acomas-they sleep inside the cabin with me.

Ok...now Im guessing your not at home when your logged in

Could be the UFO's bringing the little aliens, they use that there mind control so you dont remember a thing.
You are in a remote part of the desert ya know.

I say.... if you THINK you see one of them green bastards sucking your tank dry ya shoot'em..... if it turns out to be some punk, burry him and try another night.

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Convert your truck to propane. That shit is hard to steal.


Bob.

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Current project, 1979 KB Isuzu Ute.

Daily driver, '86 Rodeo Spacecab.
Chasing parts for Isuzu Impulse.

My cap was gone and I noticed my tank was a little lower today. Sucks, because I had a nice original cap.

If your going to steal gas do it right and find something with a bigger tank!

Hey Tundra who is the job search going? When I was out of work, I went to a temp agency.
when things were tough I worked wherehouse jobs and office jobs too. They don't pay the best, but they are good at find jobs. I'll be praying for you. Keep us updated on your Luv too!

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"When all else fails, follow the directions".

You might have to go to the hardware store and buy an assortment of Tek screws, pad bolts and gate hinges.


Works a treat.


Suppose you could allways be greatfull that you do not have a cat converter to go along with that fuel.

That would cost you a bomb each time.

Bob.

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Current project, 1979 KB Isuzu Ute.

Daily driver, '86 Rodeo Spacecab.
Chasing parts for Isuzu Impulse.

Put your truck in one of those kennels with a couple of pit bulls or a couple of Doberman Pincher's and that should make it harder.... or one of those Tundrawolfs should do it

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75 Luv, 350 V8, TH350, Camaro rearend. New 1975 Luv Step side. Stock for now.
Grandmaster of the "Shade Tree" way.. I can't see the yard for all the cars. Come on down and we will sit on the porch and watch the grass grow.

Not so well, I am going to apply for food stamps as soon as I get a chance.

I like the propane idea haha.. I suppose I could put a microswitch under the cap and rig it to some sort of small improvised concussion device (To scare, to scare!) behind the purpotrator..

The locking gas cap I bought looks like it has been almost twisted off, the moving tabs look like they have been twisted, I don't get the logic behind that...

When I log on I am using a laptop (Don't get me started, before you tell me to sell it it is worth $10, worth more to keep it) and an inverter in a parking lot behind a coffee shop w/ free internet.

Smart thinking.

A freugal man can live on stuff all.
If i wasnt addicted to Cigarettes and junk food i could clear off out bush and never be seen again.


A big thing here is hard rubbish. Do you guys have that. A yearly pickup of large unwanted "rubbish" or 'trash' that people leave out on the front of their houses.
Things like washers and fridges etc.
Certain elements of society go along and help themselves to anything metal and take it in for scrap. Technically its stealing but they get away with it.
I have found a bit of treasure over the years but i have never made a living out of it.
My mate got himself a nearly new Victa 2-stroke mower the other week. It was lighly seized, he put a stick in the plug hole and gave it a tap with the hammer put fuel in it and it has not missed a beat. It would have looked funny, hes an IT manger and wears a suit and drives a new work car (4 dr Commodore SS- your new Pontiac), doing a snatch and grab on a mower in peak hour.
Heres a funny thing. Have you ever seen a couch/sofa out the front of someones house, they do not want it anymore so the put it out on the street. Ever notice that 9 times out of 10 the cusions will be gone off it. That makes me laugh.


I say put up a notice at some local places and offer to remove rubbish for people and do odd jobs and gardening and stuff.
Go to Real Estate agents with a flyer, cleaning up after bad tennants and that sort of thing. Any metal rubbish is win win. You charge them to dump it and they sell it for scrap. Watch out for the IRS George needs to know if your making a dollar.

Cash money up front. Do a good job and word will get around.
You have a Luv, perfect truck for the job. For a start you would not need much in the way of tools.




Carefull with that percussion thing. You might blow up your truck and miss the intended target.
I would try camping out under the stars in the bed of the truck. You said your a heavy sleeper, tie a trip line to your ball bags. That will have you up and at em ASAP.



Cheers, Bob.

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Current project, 1979 KB Isuzu Ute.

Daily driver, '86 Rodeo Spacecab.
Chasing parts for Isuzu Impulse.

Move to Montana the economy is booming with high oil and food prices.

Hey you could get shot here. They are on the porch, where we sit and BS with all our friends.. Lawn chairs under the tree with the BBQ pit, for feeding them too.

Some places it would be a bad thing... If the dogs, or other livestock didn't get you, the people would..... Buck shot or rock salt in the a$$ hurts and is scary even if they miss.

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75 Luv, 350 V8, TH350, Camaro rearend. New 1975 Luv Step side. Stock for now.
Grandmaster of the "Shade Tree" way.. I can't see the yard for all the cars. Come on down and we will sit on the porch and watch the grass grow.

I have been "flying" as they say-holding a sign on a freeway offramp. I have found out that people who tell me to my face that they love me actually are actually talking about killing me (Because they think I am telling people on the net about how evil they are-which if I did-it would be true!). Little does she know I have been telling people about her words so if she goes through with it she is going straight to jail.

The people whos property I am babysitting will not send me money for food (But they party. I have trusted these people, even when I have caught them in lies. I have suffered public humiliation from them, ridicule, just about everything. But I stuck with them because of a promise they made.). The husband flat out told me he is glad I am being shot at (By the neighbors, unrelated to the above people who speak of making me disappear-they probably want to scare me away. Bullets hitting rocks 200' from where I am. Probably the same people taking my gas.) because it helps his case in court against them. (They are in a battle over water rights.)

A friend who has lived with the woman in the first paragraph is telling me I am being manipulated by pretty much everyone. It makes me sick how stupid I am sometimes. Truly-I want to believe people are telling the truth, that people actually care, that people are genuine, when in actuality they are cold, and dark inside.

It's OK, though. God has a plan for me and I am happy that He is watching over me. (I have been shot at-a bullet once grazed the skin of my temple when I was a kid, I almost rode my dirtbike into a freeway, I almost suffocated from a punctured lung/broken rib in a motorcycle accident, I have had a loaded gun held to my head on 2 different occasions, I have had a heart attack when I overdosed at 18 years, and more-there is a reason why God is keeping me alive.)


You know, my life has been a nonstop Jerry Springer show.

I am getting sick of this crap and I want out. So I am going next to the offramp of the freeway until I have enough money to at least get out of this state. Even if it means parking my beat up RV in some parking lot and begging for food. My trusty LUV will get me there.

You know what the funny thing is? I have been so deceived by evil people, the bullets ricocheting around me in the middle of the desert are actually the last thing on my mind. How could I be so stupid? Deep down, I knew better. It's all my fault.

In spite of it all, I still know I have a bright future in Christ. Homeless and hungry or not, I will always be Gods child, and I will always have hope. If you had of told me that 3 years ago when things were going great-I had a great job, I was making money, I had 780 credit, I had a sandrail, a 450, a nice truck, computers, gadgets, tools, guns-that I should have hope-I would have probably have spit in your face. I never wanted to die more than then.

And now that I am being shot at, plotted against, have next to nothing (Compared to what I had. I know full well there are people who have less than me) I have never been happier-because God has shown me how much mercy there is for an idiot like myself. I know no matter how low I go, that I will always be taken care of. There aren't too many people who can say that today, I don't think.

When the Bible says rejoice in the middle of trials, it is so true. Especially chastisement. When God brings out His ruler, oh boy-it can be quite a lesson. But it's always for the better. I can already see how this is changing my views, my mind, my reality-I am becoming a better person.

Enough rambling, I apologize. I'll be OK, just pray for me. That's all I ask.

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