clean fuel.

[RW]

went to fill up at my local exxon that was getting a fuel delivery. i asked the driver what he was pumping, he said gas and asked me why. i said to him that i don't fuel up when fuel is being delivered because of stirring up sediment in the holding tank. he told me that was a misconception and because of the filtering proccess that is not a problem. is he correct.



thanks rw

 

[LightmanE300]

It all goes through a filter, but typically that is a crappy 10-15 micron nominal Cimtek type spin on . I would stick with your gut on that one, I have always been told to avoid the stations that are just getting filled. If you're really concerned with clean fuel, buy yourself a couple fuel analysis test kits and sample your local stations. I did and found one to have 9x more dirt than the other. www.avlube.com has the kits, as well as many other labs. Avlube was just the cheapest I found.

 

[PRyker]

When I owned my boat with twin detroits in it I started to have problems with Algae in the fuel. Yes, believe it or not algae will grow in diesel and it can really muck things up. I have 2 225 gallon fuel tanks and would only fill up twice a year and hence the muck had a chance to take hold.



After several quotes from "fuel cleaners" I finally decided to build my own system so I had it. I used a 30 micron primary filter to do the initial cleaning and then a 10 micron secondary to clean a bit better. I simply designed a plumbing system that allowed me to "bypass" that main engine fuel filters.



It worked great although it took me several filter replacements to get my tanks clean. Once clean I would filter twice a year.



I guess you could do something similar if you were really that worried but it seems like overkill. Maybe a primary and secondary filters inline with a pusher pump to get fuel through the filters and to the VP44?



Just a thought.



Phil

 

[Tony T.]

I work with a guy that "moonlights" hauling fuel after work an weekends. He told me that it was best if I seen a fuel transport unloading at a station to wait awhile in case the station is not monitoring their system very good an fuel, water is agitated. He said most reputable stations had a monitoring system that showed the amount of water percentage in the tanks, an the tanks where designed for the water to settle on one end. Once it reached a certain percentage "water" a truck would come an pump out the contaminated fuel an dispose of it. Just going by what he told me, take it for what it's worth.



Tony