Super Low Sulphur Diesel and Cat engines???

[Curt Sprenger]

Got this from the ATA site...All retail outlets selling ULSD and/or
conventional LSD are required to label their diesel fuel dispensers to
indicate which fuel is being sold from that dispenser.

Curt Sprenger 1987 PT38 8V92, Anaheim Hills, Calif.



doug_ngl wrote:

>Rob, My apologies reference stating that you are "already running"
>ULSD. While talking to our delivery driver, I found out that the
>mandate that Colorado is under has not taken effect in all areas of
>the US, (read: get your story straight Doug!) so you are probably
>right in saying that you are not currently running ULSD. In fact,
>most of you are still on just the low sulphur stuff, but in our
>travels around, we will start running into more and more ULSD, so I
>guess we all better get ready, hence the lively discussion. Doug
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>--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Rob Robinson"
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>>When I start to use that Ultra Low Sulphur I'm throwing in ATF
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>>fillup. I think someone said that two quarts per 300 gallons of
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>fuel should
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>>On 26/10/06, doug_ngl wrote:
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>>> Howdy again, Thanks for the help with my locked safe issue.
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>Now I know
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>>>you just stand back and throw 450.00 at it and it will open.
>>>Now on to my next question/topic. I own and operate a gas
>>>station/tire store in Gunnison Colorado and have been talking to
>>>various fuel suppliers and addative distributors about ultra low
>>>sulphur diesel and winterizing this fuel. Most are saying that
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>due to
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>>>the differences in the chemical makeup, getting this fuel to
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>reach a
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>>>CFPP lower than -25 to -30F is going to be a problem (at lesat in
>>>Gunnison it will be). Availibility of #1 diesel to thin it is
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>supposed
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>>>to be a problem this winter as well, not to mention that this
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>approach
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>>>apparently no longer has the same favorable effect that it used
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>to.
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>>>So today while talking to a new rep, he mentioned the low
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>lubricity
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>>>of the ULSD and the problems older diesel engines, Cats were
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>noted,
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>>>have running this stuff. He noted injector pump failure
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>specifically.
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>>>Anyone have any input or experience they can share? Thanks gang,
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>Doug
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>>>Engel in Gunnison, Co. '81 FC35SB
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>>--
>>Rob, Sue & Merlin Robinson
>>94 WLWB
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