Black Diesel Followup

Texasmark

Well-known Member
About a week ago I got the Power Services bio clean or whatever they call it from the www. Put it in my 3ea 55 gallon fuel tanks per the shock treatment instructions on the container and waited for my Goldenrod or whatever they named them filters to arrive. Weather has been oscillating between just freezing and 50-60 daytime. Tanks are in a closed shed.

Today the filters arrived and I installed one...and geez the mfgr. had enough sense to send a new oring with each filter....which solved my previous leaking problem. Opened the drain valve on the canister/bowl and flushed probably 1/2 gallon max fuel through the filter, filling the bowl to the bottom of the filter with the pump and then shutting it off and draining the canister. After that process I waited till the bubbles settled out and the fuel in the bottom of the bowl (below the filter) was clear red....farm diesel dye. Genuine happy camper I am. I just knew I had been using PS products all these years and they wouldn't let me down.....they didn't.

Hope this is inspirational for others with algae problems.
 
Glad it worked for you. And now how are you going to prevent the problem in the future? We just have drains at the botom of the tanks we loosen the plugs and let the water out through the threadsthen tighten back up. If empty we grease the threads on the plugs before reusing so they don't rust from just the water going through them.
 
When I had a horizontal large tank I did that also but when I downsized in 2014 and sold off my herd and quit leasing land, I went to smaller tanks that were convenient for pumping and taking to town for refueling. As I said previously, this is the first time I had a problem. I usually look down in the tanks at what's in the bottom prior to filling and it has always been clear dyed diesel....but getting older I forget things like putting the vent plugs back and looking for problems where the drums could breathe and ingest moisture. There is a possibility that I acquired the algae from my supplier.

Thanks for the reply.
 
Glad it worked out. There is a putty you can get. Put on the end of a stick and dip it in the tank. It changes color if there is water.
Water paste
 

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