Diesel bacteria

[beast5680]

I read today that car engineers are worried that with the advent of bio diesel and bio/mineral mixes that there may well be a rise in the occurences of fuel trouble caused by diesel bacteria forming a sludge in the fuel systems of cars, we do see it occasionally in farm equipment thats been left idle for long periods, you get this sludgy deposit out of the fuel system which then needs flushing and treating or it comes back , so i wondered whether anybody on here using bio diesel and the like had heard of the problem?

[waveydavey]

Heard of it big time, MBC, but if it happens on small scales is another question

[Jake]

I'm running Bio in the Disco
I've not heard of that but i did notice something when i changed my fuel filter the other day
I tipped the diesel into the new filter and when it got near the end it changed colour and consistancy
Gone was the purple/clear liquid and out came some nasty brown sludgey oily c***
Fortunetly i didn't get that much into my new filter  ;)
Runs better now though  :lol:
 

[laser_jock99]

It's a big problem in marine engines- do search on 'diesel bug'.

[dlw]

If you leave bio standing for a while it will be gone as it is edible to flies and bugs, I had a barrel of bio and when I filled up some was left on the top, came back next day and there where loads of dead flies on top, doesn't suprise me that there is something that can live in/on bio.

[bilge rat]

yep heard it too mainly on marine stuff as said. been lucky up to now..alan...

[ian_s]

we used to have massive problems on my dads boat, where there was quite a lot of water getting into the fuel tanks
the bugs like to live in the interface between the water and the fuel, and then once the stuff gets mixed up, they just get sucked into the fuel pipes and clog up the filters

we had a very expensive filter setup, just to deal with the dead bugs

[kizz81]

wonder what the bugs look like....?

 :lol: