Now busless, and stale fuel

brmax · August 08, 2016, 01:25:09 PM

Wow! now this is bringing back memories, I seem to remember now what its like upstairs barely.
Its normally "if" a good Friday, small packs of club crackers and the little mustard pacs on the stairs
HOW Suweeet itt is

Sean · August 08, 2016, 01:51:50 PM

Quote from: DoubleEagle on August 08, 2016, 10:26:13 AM
It's too late now, but if there were drain plugs on the bottom of the tanks, it might have been better to drain the bottom until the color improved. On Eagles, at least, there are some. The danger is not getting it back in quickly enough (or fumbling it and losing it). A protected drain valve with a hose might be handy for some.

The tank has a drain plug. But there's really no way to get to it without a pit or a lift, and even if I could reach the plug, at best I could get a shallow pan under it. That's why we bought the transfer pump -- much easier to get to the fuel, even at the bottom of the tank.

-Sean

Dave5Cs · August 08, 2016, 04:21:29 PM

Sean what engine(S) do have in Vector?
Dave5Cs

Sean · August 08, 2016, 06:15:19 PM

Quote from: Dave5Cs on August 08, 2016, 04:21:29 PM
Sean what engine(S) do have in Vector?
Dave5Cs

It's a marinized version of a Komat'su 6D108, an excavator engine. Fully mechanical -- once it's running, you can throw the batteries overboard and keep going.

-Sean

Dave5Cs · August 08, 2016, 06:47:56 PM

Good engines and you can also dredge for gold at the same time. Keep the blog coming we love it.
Dave5Cs

DoubleEagle · August 08, 2016, 06:52:41 PM

Quote from: luvrbus on August 08, 2016, 12:59:00 PM

Around here it will get you a cold shower outside with Dawn (the soap) famous words "you are not coming in the house with diesel fuel all over you"

There must be a woman out there named Dawn that loves the smell of Diesel fuel....

lostagain · August 08, 2016, 08:24:26 PM

Good thing you said "the soap". I was starting to wonder about you with Dawn... Haha. Old cowboy fly repellent for horses is mostly diesel fuel, some Deet, and some lemon or orange juice. Works good. You can't shoe them without it.

JC

niles500 · August 08, 2016, 11:09:52 PM

I wish I knew that a diesel bath could get me out of the house when I was married 😆

chessie4905 · August 09, 2016, 04:43:36 AM

Did that have an electronic engine?
Btw, gear oil will get you a shower too!

pabusnut · August 09, 2016, 10:24:38 AM

Sean, I hope you didn't "dispose" of that diesel. A little filtering(polishing) and it is good again. I would have taken it off your hands for FREE!!!

I should have used diesel as a mosquito repellent on my recent Guatemala trip. I used 98.5% deet, but forgot to remove my watch one day---melted the buttons into the case of the watch and made the "crystal" so cloudy I can't read it.

---But I am ZIKA free!!

luvrbus · August 09, 2016, 10:40:55 AM

Quote from: pabusnut on August 09, 2016, 10:24:38 AM
Sean, I hope you didn't "dispose" of that diesel. A little filtering(polishing) and it is good again. I would have taken it off your hands for FREE!!!

Is there a secret to polishing Bio Fuel I tried it and didn't have any results,I went through a case of filters

I should have used diesel as a mosquito repellent on my recent Guatemala trip. I used 98.5% deet, but forgot to remove my watch one day---melted the buttons into the case of the watch and made the "crystal" so cloudy I can't read it.

---But I am ZIKA free!!

Sean · August 10, 2016, 07:00:49 AM

Quote from: pabusnut on August 09, 2016, 10:24:38 AM
Sean, I hope you didn't "dispose" of that diesel.

Yes, as I wrote extensively in an earlier reply, above, we threw it away, as the least expensive option. I don't know what the truck shop plans to do with it; a heating oil customer can probably use it. But putting it in with waste motor oil is the most likely answer; diesel is actually a welcome addition to waste oil because it thins the sludge and makes everything easier for the waste oil processor. What I know is that the $40 they charged me for the privilege is pure profit -- I pumped it all out myself in their parking lot, and I even had to drag the 55-gallon drums over to the bus. All they had to do was move 'em back to the shop's waste oil area, probably a five-minute job with a drum dolly.

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A little filtering(polishing) and it is good again.

This is actually incorrect, Steve. Not every kind of fuel problem can be fixed with polishing; I've always known that, but now I also have first-hand experience to back it up. We polished the fuel to 10 microns with no improvement. Polishing fixes two kinds of problems; particulate contamination, and non-emulsified water. Our problem may well have been water, but if so it was already emulsified. If the problem had been particulate contamination, we would not have even noticed until the filter media was more obstructed.

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I would have taken it off your hands for FREE!!!

Well, yes, and so would many others. Hell, if I was keeping the bus I would have kept it myself and run it through the generator and/or diesel boiler. The problem with "free" is that there is really no such thing. For it to have been "free" for me, you'd have had to arrive in Lottsburg, Virginia with a suction transfer pump, at 8am on Wednesday, August 3rd. And that would have been after me making the announcement at 5pm on Tuesday the 2nd. BTW, I did think about making such an announcement, here and some other places, but Lottsburg is a long way from anywhere, and the odds that anyone at all could have done it are slim. My guess is that you would have been among the "oh drat, can't make it" crowd...

-Sean

pabusnut · August 10, 2016, 06:48:58 PM

Sean,

You are probably right--none us here could have responded that quickly.--And August 3rd was my wedding anniversary and the same day we listed our house for sale, so I personally could not have made it.

Sorry for yanking your chain--but my VW diesel will run on virtually any kind of crappy fuel you can get in the tank.

Steve