Alright, just so you know, there was no way I was going to attempt to do this myself. No way, no how, just would never happen. I know how to keep my vehicles clean, I know when to tell my husband to change the oil and I know how to drive it to the shop for yearly maintenance. I know the mechanics of changing a tire, but have never had to do it.
Based on this, when my husband announced he was going to convert my gas hog SUV to run on water, I put my foot down. I know I have some crazy ideas, but this was more than a crazy idea, it was my SUV! I told him if he wanted better fuel economy that he could purchase his own vehicle to do this to. Well, he didn’t want to convert his, he wanted to convert mine. I get about 18 mpg in my SUV, he gets 36 mpg in his sedan…..he told me we had to do it with mine.
We argued about it for days, I didn’t really win the argument, because no one ever does, but he decided to convert his car and not my SUV….whew I thought, I was in the clear. So he and some of his friends came over to the house and converted his car over to this system. The first week he averaged over 60 mpg, that was really nice. They made some adjustments to the system and the next week he averaged 65 mpg. Well I was really curious at this point and about peed my pants laughing so hard when I saw him using two of my canning jars in his system. And I do mean I had to excuse myself from the garage because his expression was clearly irritated by my laughter.
Well, the joke was on me at week three (and I still didn’t know it). He knew I would never bother to look under my hood. I didn’t have to, that is what a good husband is for. Week three we had a BBQ and the guys came over for one more adjustment to the car. The car was still getting about 65 mpg so my husband was really happy. The guys ate BBQ steak and had a great afternoon. That night all of us wives went over to another girlfriends house and played bunko. I never played bunko before and those ladies sure can get loud playing it. Anyhow, we all jumped into my husbands newly named ”Mason Jar Burner” and drove back to my place to pick the guys up. There in the garage was Kimberly’s car on our jack stand. She knew what they were up to all along. I saw more of my canning jars sitting on a bench and knew at that moment they had converted Kim’s car to use water as well.
My husband asked me yet again if he could convert my car………….NO, not just NO but HELL NO I said. We relied on my vehicle to pull the boat, the tractor, the snowmobiles, the R.V. it was responsible for all of our recreation weekends, no way was I going to allow him to convert my car to use my canning jars. It just wasn’t going to happen.
I guess I never bothered to pay attention, you know how it is when you fill your car up with gas, you swipe you card, press the buttons and go in for a bottle of cold water while the fuel pumps into it. You come out, tell it NO receipt, put the nozzle back, screw on the fuel lid and drive off. I mean I don’t really pay attention to how many miles I get per gallon because it doesn’t matter. I drive only the miles I need to and it gets what ever mileage it gets. Only once per month do I record for one week my mileage. After all, a dip in mileage is a great indicator for when something might not be working right.
Well, it was time for my mileage tracking week. I filled up, looked at the trip odometer, wrote it down and figured I would calculate the mileage later. My husband at this point had not said a word about his activities. And he knew better than to ask me again because I already gave him my “NO WAY IN HELL” answer. Well, I filled up twice that week and sat down Saturday morning to calculate the weeks mileage. 36 mpg. I knew I had done the math wrong, grabbed the cell phone, opened the calculator application, calculated again, 36 mpg. I didn’t have to look under the hood, I already knew what had happened. The guys had converted my SUV to run on water without telling me.
Sadder yet, they had done it the same time they had done his. Three recreation weekends, I pulled the tractor twice, the boat three times and the motorcycles one weekend. My SUV never missed a beat and never let me know anything was up. She ran like a champ and continues to do so today. The only change she made? She runs on less gas these days. So go ahead, convert your vehicle to run on water too, you will never look back, but you will love the savings.
As for my husband…don’t worry ladies, he got paid back for this. I was really happy about the fuel and that it didn’t impact the towing capacity any….but he still made my beautiful SUV run on mason jars. So I went out with the girls and treated them to a day at the spa. We got massages, our hair and nails done and had a really expensive lunch. We plan to do this every month with the money our Mason Jar Burners are saving us.
——>I got my water conversion guide here <——
SocialVibe