From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Sun Nov 13 2005 - 06:05:59 PST
At 5:47 AM -0800 11/13/05, James Shanks wrote:
>Yes there are and you won't like it .
>
> Remove fuel injection pump and take to a
>rebuilder and have him replace all rubber
>O-rings. When the low sulphur fuel for over the
>road trucks went into service back in 91-92
>winter I saw hundreds of trucks stranded by the
>side of the road for fuel gelling and leaky fuel
>pumps. The sulphur expands the o-rings when fuel
>contacts the o-rings and keeps them expanded for
>no leak operation. When the low sulphur fuel
>replaced the old road fuel the o-rings shrink and
>the leak begins.
But aren't most of the M809s set up for running JP8?
The single fuel forward document on the JP8
conversion seems to indicate that JP8 is a low
sulfur fuel as manufactured, even though it's
requirements for sulfur are higher.
See:
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