[Vwdiesel] gasoline for frozen diesel

[brian gochnauer]

btw, Heet has two products, usually the yellow bottle is ethanol (aka. grain
alcohol) , the red it methanol (aka. wood alcohol).

On 1/15/09, James Hansen <jhsg at sasktel.net> wrote:
>
> Just to clarify, the gasoline added is to keep the diesel fuel from
> clouding when cold, and the precipitate from plugging the fuel filter by
> keeping the long chain paraffins dissolved, not so much as to aid in
> starting.
>
> I had a look and Iso-heet contains isopropal alcohol, regardless of when
> Wally world claims about their product, alcohol is definitely NOT
> recommended for diesel fuel injection systems as an additive.  Now,
> there is a time when you would use isopropal alcohol, and that is when
> you have no choice whatsoever, because you got a dose of water from an
> underground storage tank in winter.  This has happened to me- got about
> a litre (quart-ish) of water in the tank, -30 at the time, and the only
> way possible to get the car off the road was either on a hook, or to add
> isopropal alcohol to liquify the water, so it could make it's way to the
> fuel filter, and be drained off.
> I chose the latter, because it's what we would do if my power unit was
> stranded, and is an emergency measure only.
>
> Using isopropal as an additive in a diesel on a continual basis is a
> very bad idea from the injection pump lubrication standpoint.  NEVER use
> it in a common rail injection system, I don't care what wally world sez
> about their product. Better to use a stanadyne product to keep water out
> of your injection system, it contains better emulsifiers that maintain
> pump lubrication.
> -james
>
> Terry Briggs wrote:
> > With the cold weather that's set in here in the northeast, I generally
> > cut in about 1 gallon of gas in the jetta, seems to help a bit. Do not
> > exceed { I think the bentley says this as well} 10% gasoline.
> > On Jan 15, 2009, at 8:15 PM, adamo robison wrote:
> >
> >> is that right in a previous post did someone say that in the winter
> >> hard start they put gasoline into the tank.  is that like iso heet. is
> >> this safe?
> >>
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