To store fuel or not to store fuel and how?Isn't that the real question?
Some examples are better than all the tech out of any books.
Case#1-My nieghbor being as he is did like most with the millenium scare to
stockpile on things and diesel and gas were some of it.They were both stored
in plastic sealable 45 gallon drums.No problems with either and it has been
about a year since he did this.The trick with the gas was to keep the drum
sealed to prevent any gases that hold the octane rating from evapourating.No
additives were put in the diesel and he still has lots left and no problems
and passes the emissions testing.
case#2- A friend of mine bought an old Land Rover.It had gas in it from
1986.(the leaded stuff).He got it fired on the old fuel and drove it on a
permit through the emissions testing and passed.He continued to drive on the
old fuel until it was used up with no problems but the problems started with
the new junk.Mostly dieseling when shut off.
case#3-I had some diesel in a few buckets from a long time ago when I had to
drain some tanks.We got this idea to mix it 50/50 with gas and run it in the
friends LandRover to see how it would work.We had heard many stories of what
people did during and after the war when fuel was a shortage.It worked.The
power was down a bit and there were puffs of blue between shifts but other
than that it ran fine.Starting got a bit tough at times until and water
injection unit was installed.
case#4-Another friend works for a truck wrecking yard and they get all kinds
of crap fuel in vehicles that they have to dispose.He made a deal with the
boss and took it all home as it comes in.they thought he was using it for
his oil burning stove in the shop but what he was really doing was using it
in his old Land Rover diesel engine.He had built a fancy filtering system
and water seperator and adds a litre of Dextron and engine oil to every 45
gallons of filtered fuel.
He has over 100,000 miles on the engine and it still pulls strong(for a Land
Rover)He is now working on french fry oil from the restaurant.
My conclusion from the above is that the older motors were more tolerant
than the new more electronically controlled ones.
By the way the LR diesel in #4 gets between 45 to 50 miles to the gallon,How
he does that is another story.
Andre
Dual carbed,dual exhaust 265-M37 project
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