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Reply #15July 19, 2007, 10:55:22 pm

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« Reply #15 on: July 19, 2007, 10:55:22 pm »
Quote from: "dlorimer"
are there any additives that restore the aromatics neccesary for seal swelling?




i dont know if id try it,probably a bad idea,but......
an old mechanics trick to swell seals that dried up in an engine thats been sittting for a long time was to add a pint of brake fluid to the engine oil to swell the seals back up
like i said .probably a bad idea :lol:
and i was just rambling
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Reply #16July 19, 2007, 11:03:13 pm

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« Reply #16 on: July 19, 2007, 11:03:13 pm »
If you take power away from the stop solenoid and remove the lines from the filter and loop them into a bucket with a mix of brake fluid and diesel you would limit the potnetial damage to the pump only, provided you flush it well with pure diesel afterwards. Maybe you'd need to let it sit in the pump overnight or something?

I've never tried or heard of this before so I'm not recommending it or knocking it
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Reply #17July 19, 2007, 11:36:50 pm

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« Reply #17 on: July 19, 2007, 11:36:50 pm »
Brake fluid is nasty stuff.  It eats through lot's of things.  I once spilled some on the roof of some f**ker's car that I had a issue with(looong time ago).  Yep, eats through paint.  I would hate to see what it eats if its in the wrong internals.
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Reply #18July 20, 2007, 08:39:59 pm

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« Reply #18 on: July 20, 2007, 08:39:59 pm »
brake fluid is for brakes only ... pour it into / onto anything else and the seals will disappear permenantly  ... any non brake seal ....

Reply #19July 20, 2007, 11:45:10 pm

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« Reply #19 on: July 20, 2007, 11:45:10 pm »
someone should drop some injection pump seals into some brake fluid for kicks... just to see what happens after a few days.


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Reply #20July 21, 2007, 12:46:48 am

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« Reply #20 on: July 21, 2007, 12:46:48 am »
When I was in the service, I was doing a pre roll out check on my hummve.  I checked the brake fluid level and noticed lots of little gooey pieces of *** floating in the resovoir.  Someone had added DOT-5 fluid to the system, mixing it with DOT-3 and 4.  That stuff ate every rubber piece in the entire brake system.  Only thing that would have stopped the vehicle was the manual e-brake.

On another note.  If No.2 home heating fuel is now ULSD, I wonder if that will start to play havoc with burner systems?  Oil heat is big in the north east.  Just a thought.
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Reply #21July 21, 2007, 01:39:49 am

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« Reply #21 on: July 21, 2007, 01:39:49 am »
supposedly the DOT 5.1 uses silicone and does not eat seals, however it will seep out a lot easier.  It is compatible with both dot 3 and 4, unlike DOT 5 :)


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Reply #22July 23, 2007, 11:49:21 pm

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« Reply #22 on: July 23, 2007, 11:49:21 pm »
Quote from: "subsonic"
On another note.  If No.2 home heating fuel is now ULSD, I wonder if that will start to play havoc with burner systems?  Oil heat is big in the north east.  Just a thought.


Thing is, there are precious few seals or moving parts in a burner system and the pressure is considerably lower than an IP makes. The only thing you might notice is a tiny increase in consumption in compensation for the lower btu content. And that would be hard to track due to heating requirement differences from one season to the next.

You can pump just about anything that will burn through an oil burner pump, with moderate filtering even.

Reply #23July 26, 2007, 06:48:46 pm

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« Reply #23 on: July 26, 2007, 06:48:46 pm »
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I sell a lot of this additive to my diesel customers..

http://www.blauparts.com/proddetail.asp?prod=LM+2002

Claims to have additive that add increase lubricity etc. I can't really see any other good solution other than using biodiesel to offset lubricity and raise cetane rating


How much of it do you add per tank?

Reply #24October 18, 2021, 09:48:59 am

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« Reply #24 on: October 18, 2021, 09:48:59 am »
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Does anyone know if the ULSD is being used in No.2 "red" diesel?

From what I understand, the road fuel and the heating oil are exactly the same except for the dye that makes it red.  At least my bunny don't know the difference.  wink wink

That's my impression, too.
Might make a difference in the really long run, but I don't see anything in the day to day use.
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Reply #25October 26, 2021, 09:56:44 pm

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« Reply #25 on: October 26, 2021, 09:56:44 pm »
Funny old thread. I bought my Caddy two years before it was started and then about a year after I had an issue with my front seal in my IP pump leaking. Then a couple of o-rings. Went through it with a "rebuild kit". Still driving the pee out of it over ten years later. For a while I tried adding Power Service to every tank full. Until I forgot and frankly just stopped. So in my personal experience with this single vehicle I've not seen any more issues with ULSD.