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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Taco de Baja
If it is illegal to bring full jerry cans across the border, what do they do to you if they find some?
I would suspect that they would not pour it down the drain....but who knows.
Since I usually top off at the last station on the US side, there is no way I could use it.....So do they take if for 'evidence' when they take you
to court. do you pay mordida?
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Brooks, they will put you right into the line going back into the U.S.!!!
This happened to 4baja's friends who parked at a San Ysidro gas station giving away all of it (or selling cheaply) with the attendant's permission...
who told them it happened before! I heard the story from them at L.A. Bay.
I will repeat GAS is CHEAPER in Baja than here, so why do it? It is 87 octane, not NOVA anymore... if you remember that stuff (79-81 octane) that had
us using octane booster or retarding the timing.
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pappy
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wow! well, maybe i will go back to carrying them in empty and filling them later-hate to ruin a trip by having to u-turn it back stateside before ever
getting into TJ....
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bajalou
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I've been in the customs office in Mexicali and seen the customs take 3 5 gal cans of gasoline from another truck entering mexico. He put a much in
his tank as possible but had to leave the rest. By the book, the add-on tanks are also not legal but havent seen anyone bothered with them.
Davis's point about it being cheeper in Mex is valid. So why take the chance?
I drive a diesel p/u and fuel is $1.00 cheaper per gallon in Meico than where I just got some in the central valley of Calif.
Baja Cactus showed diesel at 1.63 in Mex, Calif I paid 2.68 and it's still rising.
[Edited on 10-13-2004 by bajalou]
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Mexitron
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DK--Nova gasoline! On a trip to Santa Rosalillita in 1983 there was no unleaded fuel on the peninsula so I had to forfeit my catalytic converter on
my 76 Toyota P/U and use Nova to get back home---25 cents a gallon on that trip and we were getting Corona for $2.38 a case! Truck pinged a little on
the steep grades but not really too bad. For a five day trip my cousin Kevin and I spent $68.00 including gas, food, insurance, and lots of beer.
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pappy
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yeah, i remember always having containers of fuel additive in my vehicle for those baja runs-no mas!!i swear i get better mileage from the pemex fuel
vs us stuff....
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bcofre
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Extra Fuel
| Quote: | Originally posted by Taco de Baja
Check out NATO style cans, they do not leak (web search for "NATO jerry cans")
Here is a mounting suggestion :
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Extra Fuel: Use a rear Hitch Carrier or, roof mounted or have an additional fuel tank installed.
By the way of fuel, anyone going to Mexico if using Gas should take a generous supply of Octane Boosters!!! And if feasible, install an extra inline
fuel filter. Very important.
What's best, anyone intending to be i Mexico for any length of time or being there, should prefer vehicles running on Diesel Fuel. Diesel Fuel is
cheaper, engines last longer and repairing Diesels in Mexico is not a problem.
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bcofre
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Extra Fuel
| Quote: | Originally posted by Taco de Baja
Check out NATO style cans, they do not leak (web search for "NATO jerry cans")
Here is a mounting suggestion :
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Extra Fuel: Use a rear Hitch Carrier or, roof mounted or have an additional fuel tank installed.
By the way of fuel, anyone going to Mexico if using Gas should take a generous supply of Octane Boosters!!! And if feasible, install an extra inline
fuel filter. Very important.
What's best, anyone intending to be i Mexico for any length of time or being there, should prefer vehicles running on Diesel Fuel. Diesel Fuel is
cheaper, engines last longer and repairing Diesels in Mexico is not a problem.
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jrbaja
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If repairing deisels in Mexico
isn't a problem, could you recommend places that work on them ?
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El Jefe
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When I used to drive my ford van I would get a clogged fuel filter every time I drove to the cape or any other great distance down there. And it was a
b-tch to change, screwed right into the carburator where it was hard to get to. All the while I'd mumble about the crappy Mexican gas. Finally I got
an in-line filter which was easier to change, but I had to change it often anyway...crappy gas!!!
One day, however it hit me. A two thousand + mile trip over many bumpy washboard roads, and older van with a dirty gas tank, rusty sediment in the
bottom that gets stirred up when I fly the washboard.....hmmmm....maybe not the gas after all.....Crappy ford!, Lousy gas tank!!!!
No b-tchin\' in the Baja.
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bajalou
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El Jefe, I think you have found most of the problems with the Mexican fuel - the tank it goes in. Only time I ever got bad fuel was at Bajia Tortuga
Pemex 5 minutes after they dumped a load of gas into the tank. Twenty min. later the gas came out fine.
And Diesel is now more than $1.00 cheeper in Mexico than anyhwhere I went last week from El Centro to Fresno. And I think it runs as good or better
than the US stuff.
No Bad Days
\"Never argue with an idiot. People watching may not be able to tell the difference\"
\"The trouble with doing nothing is - how do I know when I\'m done?\"
Nomad Baja Interactive map
And in the San Felipe area - check out Valle Chico area |
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