Re: another diesel fuel gelling question

Posted by paul on January 21, 2008 at 20:13:34 from (66.44.132.218):

In Reply to: another diesel fuel gelling question posted by benjaminR on January 21, 2008 at 18:26:47:

Your tank & filter & fuel line between may be far from any engine heat at all.

#2 diesel will start to drop out wax particals below 20 degrees, and below 5 degrees or so will put out a lot of these small, but filter plugging bits.

I suspect you again had fuel gelling.

Mixing in enough anti-gel, or mixing in enough kerosene/ jet fuel/ #1 diesel - will keep it running. The key is 'enough'. A little helps when the temps are at 10 degrees. Some is enouygh when it is zero. If you are looking at near minus 20 degrees, you need 50% or more of the #1 fuel blened in, or on the heavy side of what the anti-gel bottle recommends.

Your problem now is, the line & filter area again is full of gelled particles. You'll need to get it running to curculate your new mix, when you add more anti-gel.

It's best to take care of this before it gels, rather than after.

They do make products such as Power Service's 911 that should ungel a problem like yours, but realize it has to travel & mix through the fuel line on it's own, so this is not a perfect or quick process.....

My cab tractor, we put the plug-in tank water heater right below the fuel filter. This means warm antifreese is always right below the filter as the tractor runs, putting some heat into the filter. I have little gelling problems with that tractor. :)

My little compact diesel, gelled up once for me, when I managed to get it turned so the wind was not blowing on the filter side, but rather taking heat off the engine & blowing it over the filter side, it started running well again. Got it back to the shed & got more Power Service in it, let it warm up out of the wind some, and then it was good to go.

I wonder if you had gotten it set in the wind so the heat of the engine woulda gone across the filter if it woulda perked up? When it gets down to gelling, just a few degrees makes a big difference.

My furnace is fuel oil - basically #2 deisel. It will gell up too in these cod snaps. A bucket of hot water under the filter & a warm wet rag wrapped on the filter will get it running again, and let the additive mix and go through. There are more ways to get heat somewhere than with an electric cord........

--->Paul

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