Fred ;
You're on the right track here .
The fuel gauge's sender is inside a long tube that has *tiny* fill & drain holes plus a maze in it that fills up with the fungus goop , this is the hardest place to kill the fungus in , why I recommend fill it tippy top full then parking it left side down , o force that tube to fill with the Startron mix and soak in to hopefully kill it off whilst you're foo doing other things .
As long as it's running O.K. , no need to change anything but the clear plastic intake screen , and that only when the tank is near empty (less spillage) so when you re fill it you'll know if the tank / system is clean of fungus or not .
Dumping in an entire bottle is always a good plan , I just can't afford it else I'd dump in a whole GALLON of Startron every time I get fungus .
The good folks here are always amazingly helpful ~ I'm a Mechanic yes but I knew nothing about the ins and outs of Diesel power until I came here ~ no matter how mundane or foolish a question I asked , I always got a useful answer , never hesitate to ask as we're all learning daily .
For fun and educational if maybe pathetic reading , go look up my old posts from when I bought my '84 300CD ~ it was a hippe beach car that was run on any ole liquid they fouind that'd burn , this means veggie and cooking oils un filtered plus it didn't have a fuel filler cap , allowing moist beach air to get in and promote the wild growth of fungus as the same time water condensate accumulated and was sucked through the fuel injection system , blowing the tips out of the injectors and so on .
Everyone here fugurativelty held my had as I wrote daily occurrences of the car shuddering to a halt yet again , my learning to keep a German made # 2 phillips screwdriver under the hood so I could rapidly remove , blow out and re install the clear intake screen , get it wheezed back to life and be on my way before the cops showed up as it'd die in the street and be blocking traffic etc...
Ask away , some one here will know whatever it is you need to do .
-Nate
Fred wrote :
Okay, thanks. I had no idea what the black stuff was and no source I
could find mentioned it. I though it was something from sitting for
years (which I suppose it is). Would have been nice of some one of the
many people I discussed it with had mentioned fungus. LOL
I took the system apart, scrubbed the tank with a sponge on a stick (big
fun), flushed lines, changed filters, the works. The filter was full of
black stuff a week later.
Should have asked here, I guess. (DOH!)
Only good thing is our roads are so rough here in the unorganized
territories, it's no trouble to really swish that treated fuel around.
I've poured in the whole bottle and she'll top off the tank tomorrow
when she goes to town. I'll change the filters again next week.
Thanks for your help.
Fred
could find mentioned it. I though it was something from sitting for
years (which I suppose it is). Would have been nice of some one of the
many people I discussed it with had mentioned fungus. LOL
I took the system apart, scrubbed the tank with a sponge on a stick (big
fun), flushed lines, changed filters, the works. The filter was full of
black stuff a week later.
Should have asked here, I guess. (DOH!)
Only good thing is our roads are so rough here in the unorganized
territories, it's no trouble to really swish that treated fuel around.
I've poured in the whole bottle and she'll top off the tank tomorrow
when she goes to town. I'll change the filters again next week.
Thanks for your help.
Fred
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