[AT] cold weather woes

[Cecil Bearden]

Here in the south, it gets so hot that all the easily vaporized 
additives get burned off in the summer, and all we have left is the 
water and the surfactant they use to make the water mix with the gas.  
Water is mixed to lower combustion temp so oxides of Nitrogen etc are 
not formed.  It also lowers the power output of the engine.    They have 
forced us to go to diesel.   Diesel is my favorite, but with the removal 
of sulfur, the injection pumps are going to crap.  I add 1gallon of 
synthetic 2cycle oil to each 250 gallons of diesel when I get diesel 
delivered.

Cecil in oKla.


On 1/20/2018 8:34 AM, Ralph Goff wrote:
> On 1/20/2018 7:45 AM, Henry Miller wrote:
>> The gas they fill bulk tanks with is different from what you get at the pumps in town. Bulk tanks often are not filled more than every few years so the gas has to last. Gas stations get filled weekly (often every 5 days), and car owners generally full twice a month so they figure if pump gas lasts 2 months that is plenty good. For cars it is, but for small engines it isn't.
>>
>> Nothing todo with ethanol, except that because ethanol is high octane they can mix lower octane cheap gas in and still get the ratings they need.
>>
> I'll have to check with my brother, the fuel delivery driver. As far as
> I know it all the same gas here. Farm gas/diesel or pump gas in town.
> All comes out of the same truck and
>
> the only difference is the price, depending on which tank it goes into.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
>
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