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?Anyone had diesel FAME like problems during cold snap
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<blockquote data-quote="Farmer Roy" data-source="post: 7350814" data-attributes="member: 71668"><p>Dunno what FAME is, but we basically have 2 grades of diesel ( no white / red bullshiît. It’s just all diesel. The diesel out of the pump in town is the same as the diesel in tractors on farm ), summer & winter. The summer fuel apparently has higher level of wax in it, which can cause problems when it gets cold.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, one year we were planting wheat, running 24 hours a day, into a dry lakebed. Being a lake, naturally it was a depression / lowest point around & the cold air just “flowed” into it like water.</p><p>We had an old Case 870 FEL tractor, to pick up the bulka bags of starter fert, a 1418 Mercedes semi trailer with seed & various assorted 75 series Landcruiser utes floating around.</p><p>One night, the official recorded temp dropped to -7 C, so would have been colder in the bottom of the lake. EVERY diesel vehicle in the district that wasn’t under cover that night wouldn’t start until about 10.00 am, once things warmed up. Chrys ( who was doing the night shift on my tractor & was due to knock off at 6.00am ) could see what was coming & started his Toyota at about 2.00am & just left it idling for 4 hours so he could drive home <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" data-shortname=":rofl:" /></p><p>Anyway, we spent a couple of hours trying to start this Case in the morning. Pulled the fuel bowl / strainer from the bottom of the tank - it was full of frozen wax & the little bit of fuel that dribbled out of the tank crystallised as soon as it hit the cold ground. I have never seen that before or since.</p><p>Anyway, that was because it was an early cold snap & everyone was still running summer diesel that was still in storage tanks</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Farmer Roy, post: 7350814, member: 71668"] Dunno what FAME is, but we basically have 2 grades of diesel ( no white / red bullshiît. It’s just all diesel. The diesel out of the pump in town is the same as the diesel in tractors on farm ), summer & winter. The summer fuel apparently has higher level of wax in it, which can cause problems when it gets cold. Anyway, one year we were planting wheat, running 24 hours a day, into a dry lakebed. Being a lake, naturally it was a depression / lowest point around & the cold air just “flowed” into it like water. We had an old Case 870 FEL tractor, to pick up the bulka bags of starter fert, a 1418 Mercedes semi trailer with seed & various assorted 75 series Landcruiser utes floating around. One night, the official recorded temp dropped to -7 C, so would have been colder in the bottom of the lake. EVERY diesel vehicle in the district that wasn’t under cover that night wouldn’t start until about 10.00 am, once things warmed up. Chrys ( who was doing the night shift on my tractor & was due to knock off at 6.00am ) could see what was coming & started his Toyota at about 2.00am & just left it idling for 4 hours so he could drive home 🤣 Anyway, we spent a couple of hours trying to start this Case in the morning. Pulled the fuel bowl / strainer from the bottom of the tank - it was full of frozen wax & the little bit of fuel that dribbled out of the tank crystallised as soon as it hit the cold ground. I have never seen that before or since. Anyway, that was because it was an early cold snap & everyone was still running summer diesel that was still in storage tanks [/QUOTE]
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