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Plenty Of The 'White Stuff' This Year??

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Mace:
-18.3 degrees on xmas day sounds perishing to me :-)

If it does get that cold, does anyone know at what temperature diesel starts to wax up ?

jnoshea:

--- Quote from: "Mace" ----18.3 degrees on xmas day sounds perishing to me :-)

If it does get that cold, does anyone know at what temperature diesel starts to wax up ?
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I think british diesel will have waxed by then.  When we lived in Sweden we had a particularly cold winter when it was -24 deg C, but their winter fuel is designed to take it.

Mace:
Thats what I'm thinking. You know how prepared us british are. They will make changes to the additives to stop it waxing, AFTER half the nation has ground to a halt and can't go anywhere.

Whats the best way to stop it waxing then? Someone once said adding a very small amount of petrol or parrafin to a tank of diesel can reduce the waxing. Is there a definative answer?

Jimbo:
I can remember years ago, asking my Dad why the lorry drivers were lighting fires under their lorries  :shock:  - I didn't know then, that diesel waxed up when it got really cold, and that lighting the fires (under the fuel tanks) got them going again !

Wouldn't really work on todays plastic tanks though  :oops:  :oops:


Jim

Hightower:

--- Quote from: "Jimbo" ---Wouldn't really work on todays plastic tanks though
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Jim, I think you've found another good reason to fit a tank guard . . . .  :wink:

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