Contaminated Diesel

Submitted: Tuesday, Jan 22, 2013 at 06:41
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I wasn't going to fit extra filters or water alarms ,but boy I think I was wrong with that decision. lately I am hearing about the number of local vehicles having expensive repairs because of water in the fuel. Numbers between $3000 and $11000.

The only time I have ever had bad fuel was about 35 years ago and that was some rubbish that came in from Singapore. You could smell it, and the horsepower was down about 25%. Still there were no problems with crud in the fuel. I have also encountered algae in supply tanks and fuel tanks, but never in my own vehicle.

Had a few problems at work with water but that was due to it getting in through the fuel filler necks. All the other vehicles fitted with a Banlaw system had no problems at all.

I am not going to install a another filter as the standard one will do the job and filter down to an acceptable level ,but I will be fitting a water watch system though, not cheap but hopefully it should do the job.

It is something we will have to get accustomed to with the new engines. At some stage we will all have to go over to a common rail due to vehicles just getting to old and unreliable.

My thoughts anyway.

RA.


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