You'd think they would go and clean the tanks regularly . Once the truckies get bad fuel then they all know about it and no body fills up there so who knows.
Can the servo get bad fuel delivered to them? I doubt it tho.
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You'd think they would go and clean the tanks regularly . Once the truckies get bad fuel then they all know about it and no body fills up there so who knows.
Can the servo get bad fuel delivered to them? I doubt it tho.
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Hey Kris,
I hope your getting it all sorted, last thing you need away from home is to be dismantling the truck. You would think all servos would have oil/water separators before the diesel bowser.
In your other post about this you said you had a warning light come on to tell you that you had water in the fuel. This might seem like a dopey question but does anybody know if the GQ's have such a thing.
Or do you just check the trap regularly.
Mark
A similar experience we had.......
We got some diesel in a petrol van we had for work.
Filled it with petrol, unknown to everyone the tanker dumped a compartment of diesel in the petrol storage tank. Turned out to be 20% diesel.
Van started playing up in 200mtrs, continued to work it was getting worse.
Finished job and it was really hard to start, one of the guys jokingly said your running on diesel.
Got home and dumped a litre looking for water - none.
Took it to our mechanic he said that is diesel smoke, so rang distributer, the lady who answered the phone said its not diesel.
She got a bit of a serve as I was standing next to it with a mechanic and she was behind a desk 250klm away, so how the hell would she know?
All parties were denying everything. We dumped all the fuel and it did have diesel in it, went back to the servo for the 4th time and it was barricaded closed.
They had 5 jars of contaminated fuel, hadnt bothered to contact me (we had an account with them). Anyway finally admitted there was a problem and send them an invoice for out of pocket expences.
Charged for my lost time about 10 hours, mechanic and replacement fuel. When the cheque arrived it said accepting payment absolved them from any future liability.
Pigs freckle, they got another note from us.
They completely drained the under ground tank, the place was closed for 3 days.
We were filthy that they would not listen to us in the 1st instance, they lost our business over that. At the time $1200 a month minimum.
Yeah most of them have a water trap sensor and even the GQs should have them ...hahahaQuote:
Originally Posted by MC97GQ
Hopefully someone can confirm.
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I worked in a servo for a couple of years on weekends & yes the bad fuel can be delivered to them without them knowing, but protocol is that once a complaint has been made they are supposed to do a sample test then if correct stop selling that fuel & get the tanks emptied then refilled.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nisshead
Good luck mate & happy travels.
This would explain the out of service bowsers I see every now and then
Yes mate, second down top left of your dash is the warning light.Quote:
Originally Posted by MC97GQ
Looks like this...
Thanks guys,
I have seen that light, which comes on with the ignition, and thought that's what it might have been. In light of what's happened to Kris is there any way to test it to see if it actually does detect water in the filter. It would be handy to know.
I had a look in the manual but can find bugger all about it.
Mark
It works with a float as the watewr is heavier it sits on the bottom of the bowl as it fills the float lifts and bingo one day yer light will come on. On the td42 there is a tap on the bottom you crack to drain the water out till ya get diesel
Well, being lazy and unmotivated and the fact the missis wasn't walking 12km to get beer I opted for the easy option and just drained some fuel with the hand pump instead of taking the tank out ....hahaha
After learning the pickup is at the bottom of the tank it would be logical for the water to be sucked up first. I pumped about 6-7 litres out just to allow for the line up to the top and got bugger all water( maybe 50 ml). So it looks like I might have got it all in the filter drains.
Anyway, did about 70 odd ks today and just drained the water trap again and got nothing at all.
Hoping this is all over and no damage done but will be monitoring it closely to see how it goes
Haven't given up on Caltex just yet but I will explain later!!
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