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Old 06-05-2014, 04:24 PM
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I try and carry as little as possible, by doing as much preventative maintenance as I can.

That said, there are a few items that can and do fail without warning, sometimes despite being fairly new. Or, items that can fail due to outside factors (fuel). So the fuel filters, for example, make sense.

The only things I'd consider adding to your list:

A voltage regulator.

12" of injector return line.

I'd probably skip carrying the glow system stuff. These cars can start with one dead plug. Unless you live someplace really cold. Can't relate to that here...

And if your relay is dead you can always carry some wire instead to run a jumper from your battery to the strip fuse to manually glow them.

As for the fuel issues, I carry some two stroke oil in the trunk and add some to the tank if I'm filling up with D2. Preventative, again. But normally I'm filling up with biodiesel from a place I know. It runs great, so I don't stress it then.
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