Re: Watere in fuel

Posted by Jerry/MT on January 23, 2012 at 19:17:36 from (206.183.116.145):

In Reply to: Watere in fuel posted by Ivan in Mich on January 23, 2012 at 15:35:12:

I bought a "new"(to me)tractor last year and while using it in 5°F condition it ran down on me. I determined that that my water separator and the fuel filter were frozen. I used a heat gun to thaw them out and got about 6 ounces of water out of the water separator and another ounce or two out of the filter. A few days later it happened again. I figured the PO had a contaminated fuel tank. I let the tractor sit and used a hand pump to pump water out of the tank and got a pint and a half of water out of the bottom of the tank. I changed the filter and the water separator, treated the fuel with PS White, and religiously drained the water separator before every start. I checked my fuel storage tank and there was less than a tablespoon of water in that so I figured it had to have the been the PO"s fuel storage tank that was contaminated. When I refilled my tank, I treated the fuel with PS White AND PS Clear Diesel additive. I have not had any problems since then. Our tractor has a 24 gallon tank and there was probably just over a quart of water that I removed fromm the tractor tank, water separator and filter during this episode.

I just refilled our fuel storage tank with fuel and treated that with PS White per the label (1 ounce per 3 gallons) and I will continue to do that. I also try to keep our tractor fuel tanks above a half a tank to minimize any condensation problems.

Here"s what i"d advise you to do:

Check your fuel storage tank for water contamination and drain it if you find a significant ammount (more than 4 ounces per 100 gallons).

Check your skid steer tank for water by draining the water separator before every start into a clear jar to check for water. Likewise with the fuel filter. Treat with fuel with PS White. it supposedly helps the filter shed water.

Go to HF and buy their hand pump with the vinyl tubing and pump the bottom of the tank out into a clear jar to see how much water the tank has. Try to get as much out as you can.

Treat your stored fuel with PS Clear Diesel and PS White per the label. (I have no affiliation with Power Service except to use their products. There are other products out there that you can use also so use whatever you want).

Keep your skid steer tank above half full to minimize condensation.

Chage your filters before the cold season. It"s my opinion that a clean filter won"t freeze up as quickly as a partially clogged one.

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