[Vwdiesel] old fuel

[LBaird119 at aol.com]

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In a message dated 10/17/2003 7:58:55 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
texasvwdriver at hotmail.com writes:

> It's probably full of water and algae.  And the wax and paraffin has
> probably separated out as well.  Best advice is to dump the old fuel out and
> get some fresh diesel in there.
>

  Yes, in TX that would be likely but if you're not in such a humid climate
it's likey just fine.  When we pulled Dad's pickup out for the TD transplant,

it'd been parked for about 10 years it turned out!  The exhaust smelled like
old fuel but no water, no algae.  It takes water to get algae AFIK.  In many
diesel rigs over 30 years we've only had algae in Dad's 300D and that was
soon after he got it so it was most likely already there.
     Loren