maintenance | by Tom Jackson
TJackson@randallreilly.com
MAINTENANCE FOR
PROPANE POWERED
PICKUPS
We talk shop
with Ford and Roush
CleanTech about how
to handle service and
maintenance on their
cleanest and greenest
A
This cutaway shows one of
several mounting positions for the propane fuel
tank on a Roush CleanTech
F-250/350 configuration.
n increasing number of contractors
and fleet managers
are looking into
the feasibility of
running pickup trucks powered
by liquid propane gas (LPG).
The reason is simple: with
the cost of propane running
just north of $2 per gasoline
gallon equivalent, these trucks
make economic sense for a
wide variety of applications.
(See the sidebar "Does propane
make sense for your fleet?" on
page 38.)
But before you make the
leap into the new world of this
clean, low-cost fuel, you need
to prepare your shop and your
technicians. To get the skinny
on what this involves we talked
with Dick Cupka, product development sustainability man-
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