geling fuel
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geling fuel
Hello all, just a quick question before i make a mistake. I live here in lovely cold michigan, and this winter is no exception for being cold. My 84 f250 6.9 is having problems starting due to geled fuel. I was wondering if i could take household pipe heat tape to warm up the fuel lines. any idea? will this work or dont dare try this.
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David
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David
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Seems like there is a lot of gelled fuel problem this year where is everybody buying their fuel. The reason I ask is most truckstop fuel in colder climates is blended and we never have trouble in the big trucks anymore. Use howes and double up on it's dosage and #2 fuel will not gel even at extreme temps. I just made the trip to ak and never paid the extra price for #1 and even the fuel in my 110 gallon tank in the bed with no warm fuel returning to it never tried to gel. Anywhere north of edmonton the fuel is all blended no straight #2 available that I know of until you get to ak.
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I would switch fuel supplier. I use Shell and Marathon. Haven't had a problem yet. If you are having a problem use a diesel fuel additive for gelling available from TSC and truck stops.
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Shell and every other brand comes out of the same hose at the rack the differance is some small stations convenience stores etc. do not require the tankers to cleanout between products and the volume they sell. I have not had a gelling problem in several years but buy all my diesel at high volume truckstops.
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I was getting my fuel from speedway. stop that about a month ago, there fuel was cloging my filter. So now i get it at marathon. I have diesel 911 in my tank and my fuel filer is about half full of the stuff. my problem now is i need to thaw out my lines. I have no garage so i was wondering if household heating pipe tape would work. any ideas? after i get her up and running I'm only going to fill up and the truck stop about 10 milies away. hope that will fix my problem.
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ULSD has a problem with wax drop out at low temps.
From an article I was reading a couple nights ago, WDO or wax drop out can occur at temps above even the cloud point of diesel.
Remember, the fuel is blended for average temps.
I don't think what most of the mid west is seeing right now is average considering what we have seen for the last several years.
Read this article.
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From an article I was reading a couple nights ago, WDO or wax drop out can occur at temps above even the cloud point of diesel.
Remember, the fuel is blended for average temps.
I don't think what most of the mid west is seeing right now is average considering what we have seen for the last several years.
Read this article.
CFPP vs CP
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In the old days we used to mix a little gasoline in the diesel if we were having gelling problems. Never tried the tape I have wrapped a tarp around the bottom and used a heater even used coals a time or two.
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try wrapping a heating pad or hot rag around your fuel filter and plug it in over night i started mine today right up and its below 0 here (lik -18 w windchill) p.s. the filter in the engine compartment its proly not gelled just movin slow in the filter a lil heat should help