Bugs in the fuel

Can anyone please tell me how to kill off microrganisms in fuel? I have this
horrible jelly forming in the floatbowl of my 1939 Rudge. I've heard about
it before but can't find a cure.

 

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Ibuprofen and paracetamol

HTH

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Yep it's caused by Nanites, they cant live above 50mph so give the old
girl a good thrashing and that will cure you/it for good.
They are not dangers to humans unless you are in the habit of putting an
infected finger from the petrol in your ear whilst having Sex.
If infected, the symptoms are obvious, you start having an affection for
Shitoldbritbikes and wearing flat caps while smoking a pipe.
There is no known cure for this ;-(

HTH

 

Eh, believe it or not...
http://www.riskmgr.com/archives/micro.htm

 

Use leaded?
or ...
Have you tied eating it? It sounds a bit like Turkish Delight.

 

But petrol, and diesel for that matter, are hydrocarbons not
carbohydrates and no living thing to my knowledge can survive on them.
As per your other post, it's the water in the petrol that provokes the
problem. Even pure water wouldn't, but water is seldom pure. Rainwater
definitely isn't.

My old R80 was very prone to water in the petrol, caused by a faulty
filler cap. It never had a problem with sludge in the fuel, but I used
to have to whip the float bowls off and empty them periodically
(fortunately a task which can be accomplished with gloves on) until I
eventually replaced the filler cap.

Perhaps if the problem hadn't been so chronic - the water was being
replaced quite frequently - it would have suffered from microorganisms.

Regards, Ian

 

Steam clean the inside of the tank, dry it thoroughly, replace the fuel line
and clean out the carb with a mild solution of tcp.

Clean the carb down with carb cleaner or carbon tet if you can get it. To
dry the tank post cleaning it, blag some bags of dessicant from your local
computer retailer. Three or four of those in a net bag like the ones you
get with some washing powder tablets thingummy jobbers suspended in the
tank and the tank in the airing cupboard.

The bugs like water.

HTH

 

More common with diesel than petrol, but still, if you are a micro organism,
I guess any available carbohydrate will do.

 

Hydrocarbon? carbohydrate? schmydrocarbon. My mistake. There are bugs that
can ( I assume, given the sludge seen in diesel and household oil tanks )
make a living from diesel. Hogs post has a link in it to an article.

My road going MZ did similar. I couldn't figure out how water was getting
into the float chamber when the little bowl attatched to the fuel tap never
had more than a tiny droplet in it. I even fitted an inline filter with a
sludge trap, to no avail. Turns out it was probably because I had no gaiter
over the carb end of the throttle cable. That was about the only way I
could figure how water got in to an otherwise pretty much closed system.

Bit of silicon sleeving lined with silicone grease and the problem never
recurred.

We rescued an early Honda Camino a couple of years ago that had been stood
in a damp garage for 15 years. The fuel tank contained a 50/50 mix of stale
fuel and gungy, stinky, cloudy water that had an organic ( it wasn't all
rust, though there was a fair amount of that. Kinda like rotted leaf litter
) sediment. Stank like a disturbed stagnant bog. I guess that'd be the bug.

 

You're confused: the attraction is to much larger engines, and it's
incurable. The medical name is 'Dibnatism'.


Regards,

Simonm.