tpwalsh wrote: As someone who knows AK is cold and that's about it, is a well not a possibility at all?
Arsenic and heavy metals including gold (but not enough to make it worth mining) abound in the water and soil under me, and it's pretty far down. It would cost new truck money to dig a well, and then I'd still want a truck.
If there are really lots of negative 40 degree days are you going to be able to keep the water you buy liquid long enough to transfer it to your underground tank? Seems like the first time you get stuck or delayed unloading you will split the tank. I'd personally just get water delivered till you finish the well. But then again my wussy butt wouldn't even think of living north of the mason Dixon line so you have already gone way beyond what I would do!
Again, a well really isn't an option.
It takes longer than you'd think to freeze that much water, even at -40. For sure though filling up is its own trip or what we do right before heading out of town to the house. And when it's -40 I might just have it delivered because it sucks to be outside messing with water or wait it out since it doesn't stay that cold for that long, a week tops.
In reply to skierd: Right, even if you had a well, that Dodge Power Wagon is too cool to pass up!
curtis73 wrote: I've had three PSDs, and none of them took any longer to start regardless of the temperature. Unless the GPR failed (which happened every 60k like clockwork).
Yep, our '99 is a bit quicker than 60k due to short range use, but we've replaced that relay twice now. New relay plus a fresh starter seems to fire it up happily within a few seconds.
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