Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Feb 7, 7:44 am, "JoeSpareBedroom" wrote:
News here says lots of school bus operators are having problems with fuel
gelling in the fuel filters because of low-sulphur fuel. They can't get
enough kerosene for some reason. What's in the big containers of diesel
additives I've seen for sale at truck stops? Kerosene? Other? Not suitable
for educational (school bus) use?

Do they use block heaters? Additives?

Kerosene should be added at the fuel distribution point - it
is here.

They may not have the mix right - around here, it's about
18/22%.

This is the first year I haven't had a gel problem - I'm using
the Ford diesel fuel additive as opposed to the Lucas additive
I used to use in the winter. Seems to work better.

When I used to manage a fleet of buses we used some anti-gelling agent
called Aronol. It worked great. We ordered it in 55 gallon drums.

Fredo

"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message
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News here says lots of school bus operators are having problems with fuel
gelling in the fuel filters because of low-sulphur fuel. They can't get
enough kerosene for some reason. What's in the big containers of diesel
additives I've seen for sale at truck stops? Kerosene? Other? Not suitable
for educational (school bus) use?

The D&C had an article on this, Seems the State requires a new additive to
lower Sulpher emissions. Some districts hadn't tried it out beforehand and
some others, inadvertently, added to already treated fuel, see below:

http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/...p_product=RDCB

"tak" wrote in message
news

"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message
...
News here says lots of school bus operators are having problems with fuel
gelling in the fuel filters because of low-sulphur fuel. They can't get
enough kerosene for some reason. What's in the big containers of diesel
additives I've seen for sale at truck stops? Kerosene? Other? Not
suitable for educational (school bus) use?

The D&C had an article on this, Seems the State requires a new additive to
lower Sulpher emissions. Some districts hadn't tried it out beforehand and
some others, inadvertently, added to already treated fuel, see below:

http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/...p_product=RDCB


That resulted in a nothing page. What was the title of the article? Maybe I
can search on that.

"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message
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"tak" wrote in message
news

"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message
...
News here says lots of school bus operators are having problems with
fuel gelling in the fuel filters because of low-sulphur fuel. They can't
get enough kerosene for some reason. What's in the big containers of
diesel additives I've seen for sale at truck stops? Kerosene? Other? Not
suitable for educational (school bus) use?

The D&C had an article on this, Seems the State requires a new additive
to
lower Sulpher emissions. Some districts hadn't tried it out beforehand
and
some others, inadvertently, added to already treated fuel, see below:

http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/...p_product=RDCB


That resulted in a nothing page. What was the title of the article? Maybe
I can search on that.

Hmmm-- well go to the D&C Home page, scroll to the bottom of the left hand
side "archives" click, type in "school bus problems" it should be the first
story in the stack. Enjoy

Tom