[Farmall] 706 and diesel oil missed.(long)

[James Moran]

Loosely related tale....
  Back when I was in college, a fellow student (an engineering-type)  bought a VW Bug and, promptly, began driving everyone to distraction  with his bragging on outrageously good fuel consumption stories.   Note that the rest of us were driving Detroit iron (I had a big, old  Plymouth Savoy, etc.) at that time.  We began secretly to add  "just a bit" of gasoline to his tank.  Over the weeks, he became  almost giddy.  If memory serves, we had him up to about 50 miles  per :-).
  Then, we started to siphone little bits out of the tank over  time.  He never caught on by himself and it was only until he was  ready to take the thing to the dealer that we owned up to the prank.
  Turned out he was ahead of the curve anyway, even if 50 MPG was not on the table.
  JM

Mike Sloane <mikesloane at verizon.net> wrote:  I suspect that your missing fuel isn't the only story we will be hearing 
  about. Gasoline (petrol) as dropped back to a little over $2/gallon 
around here, but road diesel is still up at around $2.75/gal. That makes 
stealing 20+ gallons a worthwhile effort for some thieves. I feel sorry 
if someone steals the diesel fuel out of my 560 - they will likely get 
half water for their efforts. :-)

Mike

Roberto Rivero wrote:
> and then one night my mother felt
> some noise in the barn,  and went to inspect with another employee we have,
>  and they found an ex machinist we had,  with a long tube taking the diesel
> oil out of the tractor and putting it in plastics cans may be to use it in
> his own vehicle.
>  Ok this time i didnot need the advise of the list about how to solve the
> problem, The Sheriff of our area did it, but as this topic is about an IH i
> decided to post it any way.
> May be this help somebody in the future.
> 
>    good  luck
> 
> 

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