[AT] D2 Diesel fuel has gone bad

Richard Fink Sr rfinksr at verizon.net
Tue Apr 28 15:07:31 PDT 2015


OR had a leak for water to get in, i have had it sit for a year and no 
trouble.
R Fink
PA

On 4/28/2015 5:50 PM, Bo Hinch wrote:
> Sounds like somebody has doctored his tank with something besides fuel
> .Take a sample and send off to have checked .
>
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 3:53 PM, William Powell <
> william.neff.powell at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> My father's 1956 Caterpillar D2 fuel has gone bad. He had it sitting since
>> November. He just opened the tank and notice that fuel smells bad. It also
>> rusted that the dipstick was rusty where it had been in the fuel. The area
>> not in the fuel was fine. It looks like the fuel has become acidic.
>>
>> So, now what? How should he clean it out? If he gets new fuel should he be
>> putting in some kind additive?
>>
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