[Vwdiesel] Candle for a Rabbit----? ( Bell Book and Candle )

[Svend M Kjong]

What am I missing??

  I buy expensive winter grade fuel with a low cloud point which has the paraffin wax
removed.  Then I buy the removed food grade paraffin wax at an inflated price and put it
back in.  I practise recycling of some products but I intend to give this a pass for the
next while.  My engine with its injectors, lube oil, pumps and cooling system was designed
around a certain standard of diesel fuel.

  Paraffin candles have a wider range of quality control and standard than North American
diesel fuel because of imports.

  There are paraffin fuelled diesel engines just as there are bunker fuelled diesel
engines but they have been designed that way.

  More data is needed otherwise this subject belongs in the urban legend category.

  Randy

Svend sez  :  Randy We missed you more than the other way.----I know at least 3 Navy guys
here ---and  Navy guys breathe a lot of diesel .     -----   Gary Bangs ,Randy Tyler and
Svend.-----We are all retired and have the time to help the young
hippersnappers.  ---This is NOT urban legend.

The biggest problem VW faced when exporting to Amerika ?   ---# 1. Fuel   #  2  Good
maintenance.

In Germany   Fuel was regulated  for Cetane minimum and Lubricity. In Kanada (1977) there
was no regulations  --NIL. -----in the USA it was a mess of different standards according
to State.

Then the greens got in to the act .-----get the sulfur out-----that's when the shit hit
the fan.

Let me quote Robert Bosch word for word.     --- Q :  high QUALITY diesel fuel contain a
large proportion of  PARAFFINS   with high CN numbers .. In contrast , aromatics of the
kind found in crack components  impair ignition quality.--end of Quote.-------Do I have
first hand experience ?  --this is NO legend.

Bet your butts I have.  ---That was when I got hold of the Rabbit food problems.    About
1990  I imported a real little --work devil from Seattle.  743 Bobcat  , small 4 cylinder
Kubota ---What a machine --WOW--what a Diesel --WOW ---- ---Then one Friday night I ran
out of Fuel.  --Saturday morning I got Fuel from the Shell  bulk plant . (only Shell was
open on Saturdays.)   ----Fuel was so bad I thought I had a sick diesel in my
stable. ----Pumped it out with a barrel pump and borrowed some fuel from my
abor.  --Bingo she was humming again.---- FUEL    FUEL must be right.---Kubota told me 55
Cetane .Was what they specified.  ---VW  specify at least 50.   --Shell oil was bragging
about 40 cetane at that time.I have it in print right from Shell.Oil.

Use ParoWax --NOT  candles  ---a little pinch will do.

Svend .      the experimenter.