update on should have known better

Chief 83

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Well== it just keeps getting better. Drained the tractor fuel tank which was of course completely full and pulled the filter. All kinds of black crap on the end of the filter so I'm confident that it was pretty well plugged. Checked my recently purchased truck mount tank and found that there was a huge amount of the black crap, probably rust and other stuff in there. So now I have about 30 gallons of diesel that is pretty much junk. Could not get the fuel line that I disconnected to drain the fuel tank hooked back up by myself so changed the filter and waited until the next day for help. Buddy came over and we went to the tractor. Glass bowl on bottom of the filter was in pieces on the floor. We did get the fuel line reconnected but the tractor is still sitting waiting for a new bowl. Hopefully with clean fuel and a little bleeding it will restart. Probably better get another filter just in case there is still some crap left in the tank. Thankfully hay season around here isn't for at least another month.
 
You have a bacteria growing in your fuel tanks. Your fuel supplier should have a product to kill it. Or Google "Bacteria in diesel fuel" and read the results.
 
Algae, I think it is, but you are on the right track, need to use the attitive to kill it off.

Paul
 
YUP you have algae growing in the tank and if you have bulk tank there also. I treat my tank with a product called "Kill-em"; works very well.
Buy at a diesel supply shop.
 

black ball of death.. or black algie..


use an agicide to treat your bulk tank and change filters.
 
Yep, you have algae growing in your tanks. Before you dump any fuel, get some bio cide or other algae killing additive and slosh it around so it contacts all surfaces in the tank. If you don"t, it will come right back once all of the treated fuel is gone.
 
So the black stuff is algae? I would have guessed a mixture of rust and sand....Probably better put some of that killer in the first batch of clean fuel in the tractor also huh? So what to do with the 5 gallon cans I have with the "contaminated" fuel? I'm thinking junk it as I don't need any addtional issues. Yeah it's 30 gallons of fuel and it isn't cheap but neither is the treatment or more filters. What would you do with it?
 
You could try to filter it through an old pair of pantyhose and treat it.
I would use it to burn brush or clean parts in.
 

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