Zwy
Emperor Of Solar
I purchased the 2002 Duramax when I bought the hardside truck camper. Truck had 120K miles and the previous owner had just spent $5600 on injectors and pump at a highly respected diesel shop. It was a clean truck, always wintered in FL or TX.Ive seen on the net where people have had algae problems with diesel. I haven't had an issue with my f250 diesel or my other diesel tractors and vehicles in the 25 years I have been using them.
My F250 has 10 year old diesel in it now and runs fine when I crank it up from time to time.
That said I haven't ever run biodiesel or vegi oil in the f250 either.
I haven't cranked the mercedes in awhile and it is the main user of vegi oil of what I have.
It actually was in the shop having the pump replaced when I responded to the ad. He thought it was fixed, complaint was low power at times. I paid him for it and it was about 3 hours drive back home. About an hour from home, I happened to get my foot into it hard and it fell on it's face. I guess it wasn't fixed. I thought about it on the rest of the drive back and he had told me he never drove the truck in summer, just down to TX and back and used it while in TX. It would get parked in the shed all summer.
I hooked a scanner to it at the shop, put my foot into it hard on the highway and I could see it was starving for fuel. The pickup tube (there isn't a pump in the tank) was plugged solid with what is referred to as diesel algae but is really bacteria. He must have bought biodiesel and with the truck sitting all summer in a warm, dark humid environment, it was the perfect breeding ground for growth.
That was all that was wrong with the truck from the beginning, the diesel shop took him for $5600 when it only needed the tank cleaned and treated along with cleaning the fuel pickup.