Diesel Fuel Additive

[em14]

What is the Diesel additive that most of you use to keep the grut out of your tanks. Do you use the same in your storage tanks as your Tractor and do you use the same in your Diesel Trucks?
Leo

 

[thatguy]

What is the Diesel additive that most of you use to keep the grut out of your tanks. Do you use the same in your storage tanks as your Tractor and do you use the same in your Diesel Trucks?
Leo

What is 'grut'?

I typically use Power Service or Howes diesel Treatment for winter protection.. I use it in both the tractor and my Dodge Cummins and add it each i buy fuel..

Brian

 

[RalphVa]

Power Service will protect against algae formation and provide winter gel protection.

If you want to keep your tanks clean, run some biodiesel every so often. I recently bought 5 containers of B5 because the price has come down to near ULSD. The experience of bio users is they usually have to change the fuel filter not long after, as it cleans crud out of the tank and puts it in solution and accumulates on the fuel filter. I'm working on my first B5 container.

Ralph

 

[CurlyDave]

If you want to keep your tanks clean, run some biodiesel every so often. I recently bought 5 containers of B5 because the price has come down to near ULSD. The experience of bio users is they usually have to change the fuel filter not long after, as it cleans crud out of the tank and puts it in solution and accumulates on the fuel filter. I'm working on my first B5 container.

Can anyone explain the logic here?

Why in the world would I want to buy a more expensive fuel, just so I can go through the problems of changing my fuel filter? Diesel engines have been used for over a century, and the only real fuel tank issues I know of are gelling and algae.

About 3 years ago I got a bottle of Soltron algicide for diesel fuel. The label says to use one oz per 30 gallons of fuel. Since I have a 15 gal tank, and usually add 5 gal at a time, it is hard to measure that small an amount and I am sure that the amount I guestimate is too much, but I have never had a problem.

 

[irvingj]

Since I already have Stanadyne for my rather particular PD-engined Jetta TDI, I use that with tractor fuel... a bit more expensive than Power Service, I think, but it's on the shelf... comes highly recommended for the VW.

 

[LBrown59]

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/chinese-tractors/138596-diesel-fuel.html

 

[WH401]

If you want to keep your tanks clean, run some biodiesel every so often. I recently bought 5 containers of B5 because the price has come down to near ULSD. The experience of bio users is they usually have to change the fuel filter not long after, as it cleans crud out of the tank and puts it in solution and accumulates on the fuel filter. I'm working on my first B5 container.

Can anyone explain the logic here?

Why in the world would I want to buy a more expensive fuel, just so I can go through the problems of changing my fuel filter? Diesel engines have been used for over a century, and the only real fuel tank issues I know of are gelling and algae.

Well, for one thing any bio-fuel is cleaner burning than it's petroleum counterpart and that would be enough for me to buy it. Though that's not because I'm a tree hugger, it's because the bio-fuel will decrease the severity of the fumes you end up breathing.

To the OP, I run power service in both my tractor and my 3 diesel vehicles. In the trucks I run the gray bottle of PS in the summer which has a higher cetane boost value and in the winter I run the white bottle which has a lower cetane boost value but it prevents the fuel from gelling. In the trucks I'll measure it out as to how much I put in the tank so I'm not wasting it.

In the tractor I run the white bottle all year round and I tend to just dump some in the tank and call it a success.

 

[LBrown59]

If you want to keep your tanks clean, run some biodiesel every so often. I recently bought 5 containers of B5 because the price has come down to near ULSD. The experience of bio users is they usually have to change the fuel filter not long after, as it cleans crud out of the tank and puts it in solution and accumulates on the fuel filter. I'm working on my first B5 container.

*Can anyone explain the logic here?

Why in the world would I want to buy a more expensive fuel, just so I can go through the problems of changing my fuel filter? Diesel engines have been used for over a century, and the only real fuel tank issues I know of are gelling and algae.

About 3 years ago I got a bottle of Soltron algicide for diesel fuel. The label says to use one oz per 30 gallons of fuel. Since I have a 15 gal tank, and usually add 5 gal at a time, it is hard to measure that small an amount and I am sure that the amount I guestimate is too much, but I have never had a problem.

*I just don't see any logic in paying more for such fuel when I can get the red stuff for way less.

 

[em14]

ThatGuy "What is 'grut'? a misspelled word! It should be "crud"! Thanks to all for the info ... I wasn't sure what product everyone was using now days!
Thanks
Leo

 

[Skyco]

Power Service will protect against algae formation and provide winter gel protection.

I don't think Power Service makes any claims about algae protection.....they do sell a specific product for that but it doesn't have the other additives.
Don't get me wrong I use and like Power Service but I use Biobor for microbe protection.