[C38] old fuel
alden Andre
alden at clifforddevelopmentgroup.com
Wed May 21 16:23:18 EDT 2008
Get a filter and pump and polish it. Use some prist (aviation jet fuel
additive) and it will eat up the microbes.
Alden Andre
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2. Re: Old fuel (Larry Malmberg)
3. Re: filthy (like really filthy!) old diesel fuel (D. R. Strong)
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Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 15:05:37 -0400
From: "Duff, Russ (R.W.)" <rduff at visteon.com>
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OK, what do you guys think? For various reasons, my boat hasn't been
used
for the last two seasons. It sat on the hard last summer, and in a slip
the
summer before without ever going out. Basically it has been unused since
summer of '05. Do you think I will have a problem with the old diesel
fuel
(I don't think I added a preservative to it; I can't remember, and I
don't
know what the fuel level is), or do you think it will be ok. I am
located in
south eastern Michigan on the west end of Lake Erie. Thanks.
Sincerely,
Russ Duff
Catalina 38, Hull #112
"AVANTURA"
Lake Erie
Grosse Ile, Michigan
RDUFF AT VISTEON DOT COM
AVANTURA AT COMCAST DOT NET
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Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 12:13:25 -0700
From: "Larry Malmberg" <larrypi at linkline.com>
Subject: Re: [C38] Old fuel
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Russ, I'd get a bottle of fuel additive, dryer etc. and add it, fill the
tank and see what happens. The worst that can happen is your filters
will
clog up. I think.
Best regards,
Larry Malmberg-
Hassle
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OK, what do you guys think? For various reasons, my boat hasn't been
used
for the last two seasons. It sat on the hard last summer, and in a slip
the
summer before without ever going out. Basically it has been unused since
summer of '05. Do you think I will have a problem with the old diesel
fuel
(I don't think I added a preservative to it; I can't remember, and I
don't
know what the fuel level is), or do you think it will be ok. I am
located in
south eastern Michigan on the west end of Lake Erie. Thanks.
Sincerely,
Russ Duff
Catalina 38, Hull #112
"AVANTURA"
Lake Erie
Grosse Ile, Michigan
RDUFF AT VISTEON DOT COM
AVANTURA AT COMCAST DOT NET
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Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 12:29:00 -0700
From: "D. R. Strong" <drstrong at ucdavis.edu>
Subject: Re: [C38] filthy (like really filthy!) old diesel fuel
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Russ:
Your enemies in old fuel are water, black crap (a melange of mysteries),
and algae. When the fuel tank went south on Discreet Charm, we pumped
the really filthy old fuel into 5 gal carboys with a 12 volt fuel pump
from NAPA (ca $75). I then---on a wide deep pile of diesel fuel pads,
way away from the water ---poured the fuel through what is known out
here as a Baja fuel filter. The one I used had a small filtering area
and as a result had to be cleaned many times per gallon, but it did
remove lots and lots of water and globs and globs of black crap (which I
was told by the wise old guy on the dock was what happened to the algae
when I added the anti-algae fluid). I stored the filtered fuel
overnight in glass gallon bottles, with revealed the last bits of
pollution and allowed me to decide when enough filtering was enough. The
resulting fuel was clear and clean, and I put it into my new tank with
not problems ensuing.
I subsequently found reviews on the internet that said that the
$30ish pour-through fuel filter from West Marine was by far and away the
best, because it removed all=all=really all of the water and because the
filtering area was large. By that time I was done with the job and have
not tried the WM filters. The diesel fuel pads are a necessity in this
kind of operation. They are cheap and soak up virtually all spilled
fuel, even from the bilge where it floats on water.
regards, Don
Duff, Russ (R.W.) wrote:
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> OK, what do you guys think? For various reasons, my boat hasn't been
> used for the last two seasons. It sat on the hard last summer, and in
> a slip the summer before without ever going out. Basically it has been
> unused since summer of '05. Do you think I will have a problem with
> the old diesel fuel (I don't think I added a preservative to it; I
> can't remember, and I don't know what the fuel level is), or do you
> think it will be ok. I am located in south eastern Michigan on the
> west end of Lake Erie. Thanks.
>
> Sincerely,
> *Russ Duff*
> Catalina 38, Hull #112
> "AVANTURA"
> Lake Erie
> Grosse Ile, Michigan
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