Re: Getting cold this week, check your blend!

On 1/10/07, Jerry McIntire <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Jan 9, 2007, at 6:26 PM, Jeff Brandt wrote:
>
> >  Of course nothing really helps you from gelled fuel lines.
>
> If you need to get going, you can try what I did in Colorado one
> morning when I woke up to about 14 degrees.  The Mercedes had metal
> fuel lines.  I put an electric space heater under the hood, blowing
> directly on the fuel lines and fuel filter, for 30 minutes.  At the
> second try, it started and I continued on my way to Portland.  Once
> it was running for a few minutes the warm return line fuel kept it
> flowing.

The other night I filled my tank all the way with B99 (24 gal) in
hopes that if it gelled, it would only gel the outside walls of the
tank.

Well this morning when I got up it was 21F, I decided not to try
starting my car right away. I waited until 9:30am when the temp was up
to 24F and the car did start. I waited for it to warm up and things
were looking good. Then it started to buck ...

The fuel in the filter was obviously liquid, but the fuel in the lines
was to think for the lift pump and it quickly lost power and
eventually quit.

The temp is supposed to go up today, so I'll try again at noon, and my
best bet is 2:00pm. Of course I looked at the weather for tonight and
it is scheduled to be 12F (wow).

I really didn't want to put diesel in my car..... looks like I'll
either need to drive the work truck and wait or bite the bullet and
put some diesel in my tank at 2pm.

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Jeff Brandt
Sun Break Biofuels, LLC
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