Dirty diesel

Chief 83 · May 11, 2013

Got my tractor running again. I strongly suspect bad diesel--came in a fuel tank I bought. So I have about 30 gallons of the stuff now in 5 gallon cans. Probably has a bunch of rust everything from really small to pretty large chunks. So what would you do? Try to filter is somehow and take a chance on it or spray the blackberries? Jeez I hate to lose $100 worth of diesel but don"t want to take a chance on plugging filters and having a tractor down.

Janicholson · May 11, 2013

Use a paint strainer to remove big (MM) sized pieces. then use Coffee filters to take it to the next level, and they cost little. once it is filtered through that, I would probably run it and replace the first stage filter (and look at it when removed) after 20 hours or so. Jim

Bill(Wis) · May 11, 2013

Or, maybe a milk strainer seeing as how that would be fairly large. Use several filter pads.

spanky · May 11, 2013

Bring it over to my house and I'll dispose of it for you!

donjr · May 11, 2013

I've got a Goldenrod filter on both of my diesel tanks, and you can get replacement filters that also filter out water. They're about thirty bucks or so from TSC, and pretty cheap insurance. I don't have to replace too many tractor filters, and usually replace the tank filter about once a year....

samn40 · May 12, 2013

I go with the milk filter idea. A few years ago we had an old steel diesel tank which was kept as a reserve tank, but with a bit of diligence(or some luck!) we never needed it, so it just sat and rusted away, until we noticed a leak...it was only about half full and we ran the 100 gallons into barrels...it was full of cr*p so we put 2 milk filter socks over the hose nozzel, held in place with a hose clamp. We used it in the tractors after filtering again using the same idea only this time we fitted the filter socks over the end of the funnel......We never had any problems, but the first filters were so bad they only filtered about 40 gallons before we had to change them. the final filters were good for the whole lot and were quite clean when finished.
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