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Re: Diesel pickups fuel gelling


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Posted by trucker40 on January 02, 2010 at 06:38:57 from (69.152.38.70):

In Reply to: Diesel pickups fuel gelling posted by ktheo1 on January 02, 2010 at 02:48:19:

When its that cold you might want to think about mixing kerosene or number 1.Antigel is only good until like 20 below.Then you have to have kerosene or number one.Also depending on where you are they have fuel in real cold areas that already have additive blended in or a mixture of number one and number 2.
I dont even know if they have number one fuel now so that means kerosene if you can find it.I always used Fppf and Howes.I would usually go North and maybe spend one night and keep the truck running and be going south the next day.
Power Service was the only stuff that would work if your fuel already gelled.There could be other stuff by now.Power Service is not as good as Howes and Fppf in my opinion.It might get you going if you are gelled and is surely not the worst stuff by any means.The best thing is to get fuel that wont gell like blended and mixed with good additive.The trouble with that is if you have a lot of fuel in your tank before it gets cold you need to do something with it before it gells.Fppf is what I would use.After gelling,choices are a tow truck and warm shop,Power Service and good battery and new filter,or kerosene,blow all the lines out and new filter.Fppf after it gells wont do much.Howes is a little better,but it wont ungell it either.
I didnt like Power Service because my truck didnt get as good of fuel mileage using it as with Howes and Fppf.If you are gelled up you might pour enough Power Service in and mess with it until you get it running again.Probably not running real good,but running.Before -10 you need to get some mixed fuel,put Kerosene in or number one if you can find it.The only alternative if you are where there is no Kerosene or number one or good blended fuel is a gallon of gas to 100 gallons of Diesel.It can explode by static electricity while pouring it in.I dont know how cold that will work but I had to do it before at -10 and it worked.I wouldnt know about when its real cold or what it will do to injectors or anything.I had a 400 HP Cummins and it worked in that.Before computers.


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