How important is washing your bio?

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06-23-2007, 09:49 AM

kennedyford

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Mongo I have a 45lb bad coming to me here in Phoenix, how much would you need? Fab, my batch got mixed with a dirty tote of motor oil. Ive settled for 2 weeks on Sunday and curretly have a thin film on top but you can def see the settled difference between the black glycering and dark hershey bio. Waiting for the filters and Magnosol to arrive before I touch it again but I think I will have the only wmo/ bio if I cant get it filtered correctly.

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06-23-2007, 09:51 AM

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Correction, the wmo was only a few gallons but enouph to screw up my visual on the seperations. I guess 80 gallons of bio and 16 gallons of glycering settling will clean this tank out soon enouph.

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06-23-2007, 05:13 PM

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How can he sell bio that doesn't meet standards? People like him make bio look bad.

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06-25-2007, 07:09 PM

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Originally Posted by monsterbaby

Now what I would do if it was me is scoop out the junk that will be sitting in the bottom of that barrel, put it in a bucket and take it back to the guy that sold you the diesel in the first place and ask him if he wants it back, cause thats the garbage he is leaving in his fuel, maybe he will see the light and realize how bad of a job he is actually doing (and if he doesn't I wouldn't recommend buying from him anymore)

Oh, believe me I am!! I think I'm also gonna take the three NAPA 3384 filters I clogged to him as well. I got a good deal till I had to buy all the stuff to clean his lousy fuel....

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06-25-2007, 07:12 PM

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Kennedy- I actually didn't use any magnesol in the last 20+ gals I cleaned up- I cleaned the first batch, and it looked so nice I didn't think I need to run magnesol through it, unless ya'll think I should?? I still have about 60 gals in the aux tank I need to clean.

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06-25-2007, 08:52 PM

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Danny I think if you followed Rob (monster) directions you should be ok. He now uses magnesol but not until recent I believe.

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06-25-2007, 09:28 PM

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Danny for no more than you have just the settling like you did will be fine, if you were making and running a lot of it then yeah going ahead and setting up to use magnesol might be a good idea but a lot of guys still do nothing more than let the fuel settle and call it good and don't have a problem.

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06-26-2007, 11:14 AM

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Rob- yeah, that's what I've been doing. Let it settle a day or two and siphon all but the last two inches or so, I could probably take more but it's 1) safer, and 2) easy to dump it into a clean cubie and then siphon outta that once it settles. I don't know if it's really even worth getting bio from this guy anymore- this ongoin process of 15 gal at a time is getting to be a PITA and I still got about 60 gals to go....

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