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#15 by clbanman on 24 Mar, 2007 06:19
Quote from: jtanguay
I've heard of an old mining camp way up north here in Ontario where there is approximately 1'000'000 litres of diesel fuel... it was abandoned in the 80's when gold prices fell too low to be profitable... the fuel remains!! but is it okay to use? hmmm...!!!! The location is so remote that you would need to fly up there though... so don't get any ideas :lol:

What is the storage life of diesel? If that story is true at current prices it's a fair chunk of change.
#16 by burn_your_money on 24 Mar, 2007 06:23
It's probably garbage. If they ran out of money they wouldn't have put additives in it to preserve it or anything like that. It's probably full of algae
#17 by dieselsnowmobile on 28 Mar, 2007 08:13
Well, I looked at the car, 92 Jetta GL ECODiesel.

See the car Here

When I got there, he had just sold it under fiancing, and I told him I had cash, but he sold it for $1,995, which I was not going to pay unless it was in perfect condition. It was out for cleaning, but he went and got it. I took it for a test drive and everything seemed ok except the pump was leaking. When I returned the car, he asked what I liked about the car and I told him the good points and as soon as I mentioned the leaky pump, he just pushed me aside. I did not know whether he knew if the pump was leaking, but I knew he said goodbye as soon as I mentioned the pump. For some reason, I thought he might be an honest car salesman (fat chance) and would tell the customer buying the car that the pump was leaking, an expensive repare depending on who is buying. I thought I might be able to get a good price, but nope. So avoid 2 Brothers Motor Sports in Bradley, IL, http://www.2brothersmotorsports.com. I imagine he paid too much for the car and does not know anything about VW diesel, and is trying to make up his lost.

For anyone keeping tabs on 92 ECOdiesel, supposedly only 47, but the onwer of the ECODiesel site has later said he thinks there is more like 470. See LINK. This VIN is correct - WVWRF21G0NW014210.
#18 by Kantdrive55 on 28 Mar, 2007 13:57
We have seen quite a few pumps coming in for rebuilds since the switch. Lots of leaks, mine included. For addative use a good one. Stanodine Performance formula is the only addative Bosch reccomends. I use it in every tank. I see about an extra 75k out of every tank with it.
#19 by foxracer1 on 28 Mar, 2007 14:32
Why would the gov mandate ***ty fuel? Lets make the fuel put out less emissions! Then we will make it so it is less efficent so people have to burn more of our unusable fuel resource. :shock: Since we are burning more fuel we are emitting probably close to the same amount of "bad" emissions due to the fact the fuel has less energy than a stray alley cats piss. What is the fuel like in europe? The majority of engines there are diesels so i think they know what they are doing.
#20 by dieselsnowmobile on 28 Mar, 2007 15:09
Plus, the refinery plant refining the sulfur out of diesel is going to be polluting more doing that extra work and using more watts from the local power plant. They also miss calculated the amount of diesel litering on the ground from all of the leaky pumps, and I am sure the EPA likes having diesel fuel all over the roads. So, does the ULSD really save the environment???
#21 by jtanguay on 28 Mar, 2007 15:31
Quote from: "dieselsnowmobile"
Plus, the refinery plant refining the sulfur out of diesel is going to be polluting more doing that extra work and using more watts from the local power plant. They also miss calculated the amount of diesel litering on the ground from all of the leaky pumps, and I am sure the EPA likes having diesel fuel all over the roads. So, does the ULSD really save the environment???

i can honestly say that i've leaked probably 1-2 litres of diesel fuel or more when my pump started pissing...

and true about the fact that it takes MORE energy to remove the sulphur.

thing is though, sulfur does cause acid rain... and if you're using nuclear energy to refine the diesel, then its a good start...
#22 by deadcaddy on 01 Apr, 2007 06:02
Quote from: jtanguay

i've heard of an old mining camp way up north here in Ontario where there is approximately 1'000'000 litres of diesel fuel... it was abandoned in the 80's when gold prices fell too low to be profitable... the fuel remains!! but is it okay to use? hmmm...!!!! The location is so remote that you would need to fly up there though... so don't get any ideas :lol:

I don't think I'd put that in my car if I were you.... :shock:
#23 by burn_your_money on 01 Apr, 2007 07:14
If I'm remebering correctly the ULSD isn't for old school diesel owners like us. It's for the new cars, and the ones that we don't have yet because our fuel quality it too poor. The ones with all the emisions equiptment can't run on our fuel because there is so much crap in it that it kills the emmision equiptment.

I see ULSD as a step in the right direction. It is allowing the diesel market to grow like it has in europe, with new advancements to diesel engines.

I'm still pissed that my pump leaks though.