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| Glenn Williams (Glenn)
Registered Member Username: Glenn Post Number: 211 Registered: 6-2006 Posted From: 216.163.56.194  Rating: N/A |
I have never seen a post on this subject, but it is something every bus owner (especially newbies with older busses) should be prepared for! My MCI 7 has an aux fuel tank. Not long after I topped of my tanks for the first time, I developed a leak! My tank had corroded in several places in the bottom! So - now I'm leaking fuel, and I need to put 179 gallons of fuel somewhere! I burned up the phones looking for CLEAN 55 gal. drums that were used for something compatable with diesel. I found some, and didn't complain about paying a little for them either. Then I got busy with an el-cheapo electric fuel pump. That was memorial day of 08. Well, just under a year later, one of the hoses that connects my aux tank to the fuel lines that then attach to the main tank sprung a leak! Of COUSE I had just topped off the tank! Thank goodness I kept those barrels! A note on keeping empty barrels - keep them upside down to keep water from standing on the lid and perhaps getting into the barrel. Occasionally drain them - like an air compressor they will build up condensation. You don't want to mix that with your fuel! Don't ask me how I know! That story is also called "how I learned all there is to know about fuel filters". | ||
| Gus Causbie (Gusc)
Registered Member Username: Gusc Post Number: 873 Registered: 11-2005 Posted From: 208.54.200.70  Rating: N/A |
Glenn, If you really need to keep a big supply of diesel why not keep it in the barrels instead of the bus? | ||
| Clint Hunter (Truthhunter)
Registered Member Username: Truthhunter Post Number: 151 Registered: 1-2009 Posted From: 24.129.235.190  Rating: N/A |
why I gladly have a bus load of barrels of fuel & I'd know just what to do with them. ... Not as sure how well this modern diesel keeps, you know technology these days, great effort to make most things last less. | ||
| Ralph Peters (Ralph7)
Registered Member Username: Ralph7 Post Number: 3 Registered: 3-2004 Posted From: 66.59.120.99 Rating: N/A |
Now I know I will not sell my 3 truck fuel tanks each hold 120 gallons plus. One will fit in the bay and it holds 122, so 3oo total gallons, now that's big $$$$$. | ||
| Glenn Williams (Glenn)
Registered Member Username: Glenn Post Number: 213 Registered: 6-2006 Posted From: 216.163.56.194 Rating: N/A |
Gus, My head is a little fuzzy this morning and maybe I didn't write the first post as well as I should, but I meant that the purpose for having the barrels is not to store fuel long term, but to have a place to put fuel if you need to do a fuel tank/system repair. On the other hand, whend diesel was 1.87 this spring, I kinda wish I had filled the bus AND the barrels! :-) Glenn | ||
| R.C.Bishop (Chuckllb)
Registered Member Username: Chuckllb Post Number: 647 Registered: 7-2006 Posted From: 75.211.137.82 Rating: N/A |
"Now I know I will not sell my 3 truck fuel tanks each hold 120 gallons plus. One will fit in the bay and it holds 122, so 3oo total gallons, now that's big $$$$$." Also at the pump..........  RCB | ||
| Tom Caffrey (Pvcces)
Registered Member Username: Pvcces Post Number: 1280 Registered: 5-2001 Posted From: 65.74.69.200 Rating: N/A |
Leaning barrels so that water drains off before reaching either bung keeps rainwater out, too. For what it's worth. Tom Caffrey PD4106-2576 Suncatcher Ketchikan, Alaska | ||
| Clint Hunter (Truthhunter)
Registered Member Username: Truthhunter Post Number: 154 Registered: 1-2009 Posted From: 24.129.235.190 Rating: N/A |
...was really hoping to inspire some fact sharing on modern diesel such as "ultra-low sulphur" & the perishability factor "chemical stability wise" and maybe even how it pertains to both MUI and electronic inject engines. |