TREAT your diesel for algae... or pay the price.

[KyleB83]

All this talk about how to prevent it... What if you don't catch it until it is too late? What is the best/recommended ways to clean/treat a tank that wasnt treated? There are all kinds of suggestions online, ranging from pouring a gallon of Simple Green into the tank, let it sit, then drain it and rinse out your tank. Something about that doesn't seem very smart to me.

When we fought it before, we ran through multiple gallons of diesel, and bottles of treatment just letting it sit in the tank, and then draining it out to our spare barrels to later burn.

 

[art]

The algae growth is something we have only had issues with over the last thirty years and it makes no difference what style storage tank you have. Not a good thing for any pump and it has affected all styles but first clogs filters noticeably!!!

 

[Jstpssng]

All this talk about how to prevent it... What if you don't catch it until it is too late? What is the best/recommended ways to clean/treat a tank that wasnt treated? There are all kinds of suggestions online, ranging from pouring a gallon of Simple Green into the tank, let it sit, then drain it and rinse out your tank. Something about that doesn't seem very smart to me.

When we fought it before, we ran through multiple gallons of diesel, and bottles of treatment just letting it sit in the tank, and then draining it out to our spare barrels to later burn.

I disconnected the line going into the sediment bowl, blew air back into the tank to clear the tank filter, and drained my tank.
I then dumped in a gallon of fresh diesel treated with biocide and let it set overnight. I then flushed the tank with 5 gallons of fresh diesel, filled it with fresh, treated diesel. It may have been overkill but at that point I’d been having increasingly worse fuel problems since I got the tractor home a year earlier and hadn’t been able to use it at all for a month. I used it all last winter, have put about 125 hours on it and haven’t had a problem since.

 

[fried1765]

My go to guy for heavy mechanical and welding recommended Bio Bor which can be bought online if no one stocks it near you.I haven't had any more problems.

^^^^^ Biobor WORKS!

 

[RPW]

I had the same thing. Finally drained tank, changed my inline filter and put about a half gallon of acetone in the tank and let it sit for about a half hour. Drained completely and blew clean air into the tank with the drain plug open. Closed everything up and filled with fresh diesel. No problem since then.