[T3] Going to Hell in a handcart

[Brion Sabbatino]

If the fuel is waxing solidifying, you might want to heat your filter housing and lines. You can look up veggie web sites for how to accomplish this. Granted with proper winterized fuel this should not be necessary. Who knows what they are selling at the pump. Most people out here just burn filtered veggie oil in their diesel trucks and M-Bs here. Most of the year they start right up and the fuel tank, line, and filter heater keeps it all good. Since we don't process it into Bio fuel we do have to change our filters more often. A small price to pay for free fuel. No engine problems either after ten plus years and thousands of miles between us all.

B-20 should be better overall for your engine, given it's cleaner burning characteristics. That is as long as the car has the proper seals and hoses (Viton) to resisted the bio fuel. It is amazing how the bio and veggie oil cleans things up.

Brion S
S. Utah 

> From: jadney at vwtype3.org
> To: type3 at vwtype3.org
> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:42:03 -0600
> Subject: Re: [T3] Going to Hell in a handcart
> 
> On 24 Jan 2013 at 22:49, Dave Hall wrote:
> 
> > I detect a sense of satisfaction for a job well done.  Better to be working
> > on computers in this weather than on Type 3s.  
> 
> Correct, on both counts.  ;-)
> 
> > We're hoping for double figures on the temperature scale in the next couple
> > of days - degrees C though!  That'll get rid of the 5" of snow we've had on
> > the ground for a week.
> 
> We had a few days of that last week. Unseasonably warm for January, 
> yet quite appreciated for those of us not into winter sports.
> 
> > Has your modern VW been sorted?
> 
> My best guess is that the problem was waxing up of the diesel fuel 
> filter. The car started and ran fine once it sat for awhile. I assume 
> the heat soak after shutdown cured the problem once the car died. If 
> this happens again, I'll wait a few minutes before calling AAA. I've 
> since filled up a couple times with local (presumably more 
> winterized) fuel.
> 
> I contacted VW to see if/what they recommended to winterize diesel 
> fuel. They responded, but it really wasn't helpful: They said not to 
> add anything. That I should verify from the places where I bought 
> fuel that it was sufficiently winterized.
> 
> There're 3 problems there. One is that the people at these places 
> generally have no idea what I'm asking about and they'll answer yes 
> regardless of what's actually in their tanks. Second is that people 
> in my position will buy whatever additive is on the shelf unless VW 
> does a bit of research and recommends something. Finally, it ignores 
> the fact that the fuel blenders add something, so what is it, and 
> shouldn't I be able to add a bit of the same thing with the same 
> degree of harmlessness?
> 
> On another note, he did tell me that VW was looking into approving 
> the use of B20 (20% biodiesel.) We're currently limited to B5, but 
> that was approved only after VW studied it. There have actually be 
> times when I had to pass up pumps with B20, so B20 would be useful.
> 
> 
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> Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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