Help Cleaning Diesel
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Help Cleaning Diesel
This is a follow up to this thread (pics pg 3):
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...esel-tank.html
I was hoping some of you could help us out. Now that we have gotten the tractors repaired, we have ~200 gallons of dirty diesel. Is there any way we can clean it?
We still have the items used for making bio (methanol, lye, etc...). We were wondering if we could do something to get the sugar out since diesel prices are $$$$$.
TIA
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...esel-tank.html
I was hoping some of you could help us out. Now that we have gotten the tractors repaired, we have ~200 gallons of dirty diesel. Is there any way we can clean it?
We still have the items used for making bio (methanol, lye, etc...). We were wondering if we could do something to get the sugar out since diesel prices are $$$$$.
TIA
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Read your other thread. Do not! repete, DO NOT mix clorox and Lye together! The gas it produces WILL KILL YOU!!! Throw the diesel away, you can't clean it. A chemical reaction has taken place and you can't reverse it. Sorry..... Plastic or rubber lines will need to be changed. but a hot tank will clean out the mess from the tank and lines. My hot tank is 400 gallons water and 55 lbs of lye heated to 180 deg. Overnight in my hot tank followed by a cleaning with my steam cleaner will take out all the crud. Don't ask me how I know..........
Good luck and keep us informed.
Good luck and keep us informed.
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I, for one, would give it a shot. Water is easier to separate from pump diesel than biodiesel. But then again, I already have the equipment to water wash. Is it confirmed that it is sugar? If you would rather not mess with it, and it isn't worth the hassle, then dump it.
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