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I went down to the boat 3 weeks ago and brewed up a potion of 20 gallons of diesel with a litre (or two, can't r eremeber, any it was double dose and fearsomely expsnive at 40 quid ish) of soltron - enought to treat (ie chuck into the tanks) containing the 2000 litres of suspiciously dodgy fuel which last season blocked the filters on the way to menorca, then again near marseille, and again on the way to italy in november (with coliholic and B1), and again on the way back from italy (with longjohnsilver and shortjohnsilver). Servicing time so changed the papaer and canister filters. I now i shd have filled tthe tanks over the winter but with crap diesel that i might otherwise have had to suck out, why bother adding good fuel to bad over winter?
Anyway two days later we blammed around a bit for a couple of weeks, only thirty miles down the coast, then back, and somewhere else, ran the gennies for bout 20 hours total using only bout 700 litres of the fuel and had no problems. I had a look at one of the filters and and it was clean, as before, no gloop came through. The engines smoked, but only a bit.
Soo, either
1) the nasty gloop was limited and has been taken away with the filters, even though it loitered in a 1/3 of a tank of fuel over winter and somehow stoped the engines at end of last season.
Or,
2) the primary filter of five in line (strainer, primary, second primary, paper then canister) whcih I looked at was being bypassed, not sure of the valves, see. And I haven't run it long enough to recreate the problem as the fuel starvation has only happened after a long run, of two hours plus.
Or,
3) the fuel starvation is mostly due to the lunatic number of filters, not lurgy fuel - I note that the fuel starvation didn't stop me flashing up the (diesel) generator to run the aircompressor with ljs, for example. But neither has it reappeared on the main motors.
Or
4) the blimmin soltron worked? A bit? Doesn't go any faster though. i am having a massive fillup next week of 4000 litres so that will dilute any soltron i spose. All a bit inconclusive. Other than of course the soltron didn't do any harm. Should i look for a supplier of crappy diesel to run the test again?
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Anyway two days later we blammed around a bit for a couple of weeks, only thirty miles down the coast, then back, and somewhere else, ran the gennies for bout 20 hours total using only bout 700 litres of the fuel and had no problems. I had a look at one of the filters and and it was clean, as before, no gloop came through. The engines smoked, but only a bit.
Soo, either
1) the nasty gloop was limited and has been taken away with the filters, even though it loitered in a 1/3 of a tank of fuel over winter and somehow stoped the engines at end of last season.
Or,
2) the primary filter of five in line (strainer, primary, second primary, paper then canister) whcih I looked at was being bypassed, not sure of the valves, see. And I haven't run it long enough to recreate the problem as the fuel starvation has only happened after a long run, of two hours plus.
Or,
3) the fuel starvation is mostly due to the lunatic number of filters, not lurgy fuel - I note that the fuel starvation didn't stop me flashing up the (diesel) generator to run the aircompressor with ljs, for example. But neither has it reappeared on the main motors.
Or
4) the blimmin soltron worked? A bit? Doesn't go any faster though. i am having a massive fillup next week of 4000 litres so that will dilute any soltron i spose. All a bit inconclusive. Other than of course the soltron didn't do any harm. Should i look for a supplier of crappy diesel to run the test again?
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)) I would be interested to hear how you get on.
Cheers, Mike. 
