I understand that soon they will be adding sulfer or taking it out I don't know which, but we need to be adding an additive of some sort. can anyone elaborate on this?

Charliex

I understand that soon they will be adding sulfer or taking it out I don't know which, but we need to be adding an additive of some sort. can anyone elaborate on this?

Charliex
The new fuels for the 2007 model diesels will contain less than 15 parts per million sulfur. It is illegal to run fuels greater than 15 ppm Sulfur in those vehicles and that comes with the warning that damage to the vehicles engine and/or emissions systems may result. To my knowledge no one in my hometown has any yet. I haven't read anything about how it performs or what if anything we will need to add to our older trucks. All I know is I won't be buying a new truck [yuk] .

I understand that lucas has an additive to compensate for the lack of sulfur. Also I heard that tranny fluid can be added but don't know how much.

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The local Bosche guy says that the system used to remove sulfur in Western Canada also removes the lubricity and endangers their pumps. I had heard this before but also heard that the process for sulfur extraction was better now. I don't know if he is right but I guess I'd better be more consistent in the use of the additive.

He said that trucks used for shorter commutes rather than long distant heavy hauling varnish up their pumps fast and must have a good additive. He said that I was probably okay because of the 5th wheel I haul thousands of miles every year.


He recommended the Standyne product for treating fuel. The new fuel which he implied is already being used here needs something. He also said the Standyne stuff increased the cetane rating best. The brochure he gave me was quite convincing... however aren't they all. [laugh]

Seems that the only additive that is as good are the John Deere ones..

Ya now,.... it would be real nice to get some hard nose down to earth facts about this subject espesaly for our VE pumps [eyecrazy]

There just isn't any hipe out there ether! almost like, it's this big secret and all of us pore sapes get to be there test beds for there experimenting!

Ya now! like " THEM OLD smoking DIESELS NEED TO BE REMOVE FROM THE HIWAY ANY WAYS" [verymad]

I get the feeling that is the 80's gas crunch all over again, and this time were(old diesel owner) the ones under the micriscope! [yuk]