low sulpher in deisel has ruined my seals

Thanks Dave,
I'd hope we wern't that far behind either but our local Toyota has done 60 pumps in the last 2 weeks and our deisel injection shop in town is full up for 1 month. I think somethings wrong. Do you think a really bad batch could do this or the low sulpher?

cheers mat

We have done a few top seals in the last month but all the vehicles were approx 10 years old the seal rollsover causing the leak,never had to take a pump off yet to replace seals.

What's a FITCH?

Bilbo

hi bilbo,

some brief surfing found this website
www.fitchcatalyst.com.au
this should answer your question

cheers mat

I meant "well renowned DIESEL additive" doh.

Your pump will wear out quicker with bio diesel.
Read the latest renew magazine there's an article from a fellow who has been running it for years in his 80 series the pumps been rebuilt 3 times so far!

Thats a pretty brave statement. One persons experience (as long as it may be) is not hard data. No length of time, no km's travelled. Has he tested his bio-diesel for quality?
Much information on the internet, and other peoples experiences, would put your statement seriuosly to the test.

I think people get confused between the product biodiesel - which cleans all the crap out of your fuel system thus causing blockages and other problems, and the USE of biodiesel, whch is commonly used in conjunction with petro-diesel.
Bio-diesel does not "ruin your injector pump". The contaminants leftover from ptero-diesel usage raised from the system when bio-diesel is used are more likely to cause damage.
Admittedly - bio-diesel does rot rubber - fuel lines, return lines, seals etc. Non-rubber replacements are easily available for all these parts. It is not uncommon to have to replace most of these parts shortly after commencing bio-diesel use, this is normal. especially on older vehicles.
Furthermore, many folks throw a few chemicals together and give little regard to the quality of the fuel they are making. Bad bio-diesel is possibly worse than bad peto-diesel for your system. (it is highly possible your "years of experience" guy does this).
Is he still using bio-diesel? That would be my next question.
Your glib statemen, without any hard data, is relatively innocuous. Bu if you take these bar-room comments as fact, and you drive a diesel, your missing out on the next big thing in automotive advancement.
You only have to look at the number of TDI passenger vehicles and the massively increased demand for commercial bio-diesel use in Europe (yes, big companies sell it at bowsers) to predict the future for here.

cheers
richopesto

Give Cooma diesel a call they made the statement and did the repairs apparently its the moisture in the fuel that turns to steam and damages the housing!

ACDC,

So what your really saying is WATER caused the damage. Nothing to do with bio-diesel.
Thus my suspicions were correct - your mate has been using crappy bio-diesel.
Well made bio-diesel has the same or less water content than petro-diesel. It requires 'drying' after making it, which is basically heating it to 50C to remove any water that remains from the washing process. Bio-diesel can easily be made to, or even surpass, ASTM standards. So, your mate could have easily had the same problem with water contaminated petro-diesel.

In fact, your mates water problems could have come from anywhere. He might have left his filler cap open on a dewy night, for all we know. Nothing to do with bio-diesel at all.
Please confirm your facts prior to making such glib statements.
Its a real shame places like Cooma Diesel are spreading ill-informed rumours about a perfectly good product. Thanks for the tip! I wont be going anywhere where such rubbish is spouted.

Did you know Rudolph diesel designed his first motors to run on peanut oil...or any vegetable oil ?

http://www.tasmanenergy.com.au/biodiesel.htm

Did you have a bad day at the office!
I was stating what was in the article and no he's not my mate.
touchy touchy!!

Hiya ACDC,

Bad day? - only due to uninformed and uneducated responses.
Once again, one persons' experiences are sprayed around as 'gospel'.

You said: " Your pump will wear out quicker with bio-diesel. "
Nowhere in the Renew article does it say this. Nowhere.

You also extrapolated two statements in the article into one "fact":
"...apparently its the moisture in the fuel that turns to steam and damages the housing..."
Yes it does. But the manager of Cooma Diesel never said it was caused by bio-diesel.
He is paraphrased as saying:
1. "...moisture in the fuel turns to steam and damages the pump..."
And in an entirely seperate paragraph...
2. "...similar damage on another pump using bio-diesel..."

Yes, as I said, WATER in ANY fuel will cause damage. Having now read the article, I'd lay a pretty safe bet by the sounds of Vince Jones' experiences that he is making crap bio-diesel with a high water content. I could be wrong, but either way, BIO-DIESEL IS NOT THE PROBLEM, WATER IS.

There seems to be so many people with a malign for bio-diesel, propogated further by poorly researched and uneducated opinions which do nothing for accurate community awareness.

If you are going to make ill-judged remarks, always preface them with "I believe" or "I think", then you are not committing yourself that your are presenting "facts".
Apologies, If Im all steamed up ;-), I'm a diehard convert to bio-diesel and there is just so much rubbish being presented that its a crap fuel.
If it were no better than petro-diesel it would still be a preffered fuel simply due to its carbon neutrality (nil - minimal environmental impact) when used. For this reason alone, the argument for bio-diesel wins hands down.

But as a reader of Renew, I figure you are already on the 'good side' of the Earth. So, why aren't you using bio-diesel? ;-)

cheers
Richo