[Vwdiesel] Fuel 101 --( for archives ).

[James Hansen]

> IIRC, the bulletin I have is dated 1989.
> Worst fuel I ever bought was in Utah, on the way back from Arizona.  It
> barely ran.  the 1.6 na was heating, gutless, and laid a black smoke trail
> you could cut with an axe.
> There were lots of reasons for pumps to die then it seems.
> -James
>
> Hagar sez :   My experience was identical  ---at the time I was worried I
had engine
> troubles.  After a stomach pump out-- and she was fed some GOOD fuel --all
was sweet
> sounding  ---a really happy diesel sound.---Heard ones will never be
mistaken.---And how
> to miss the SMOKE ?.---that is not possible.
>

I poured in a triple shot of Stanadyne World Blend. Shaken, not stirred. (
Rocked the car to mix it)
Drove off in a cloud of rapidly reducing smoke, until it got through the
system.  Didn't know the 2 cycle oil trick back then, but that probably
would have helped some as well.
Burned that off, and filled at a Cenex truck stop.  All was well in the land
of acceleration challenged autos once again.

Gotta watch what you burn in fuel oil furnaces.  They are designed to pump
fluid of a fixed viscosity, there is no regulator, and the thinner things
tend to get fire where there shouldn't be- out of the fire brick pot and up
into the heat exchanger where it shouldn't be.  It can fail and be your
undoing... CO and the like.  It's happened- gas gets mixed in by mistake,
say half to a third of a tank, and it's decided to just let it burn off. The
fire is too vigorous, and the heat exchanger catches hell.  I would think
aside from the heavy metals, if your tank is indoors, adding waste oil
wouldn't harm things.
-James
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