Petrol Stations

Somewhere back in the distant past someone told me, "Never get petrol
while the tanker is delivering to the petrol station". I have
disregarded this twice and both times the injectors on the cage have
been plugged up shortly after.

Surely, there are tons of strainers or filters between the underground
tanks and the pump.

Is this true or bollox, what says the FOAK?

 

Generally speaking I can't get into the station when the tanker is there....

But I'd expect there to be some kind of swirling in the tank which could
kick up some crud....

And the filters have to let fuel through a pump nozzle at a faur rate so
it'd seem possible that you could get a bulk load of very fine sludgy
particles in one tankful which could all congregate togther to cause a
blockage in the very fine nozzles of an injector....

Ish

Dave

 

True afaik. The AA man wot got my ex's Escort going after it suffered
the same fate said it was the water in the bottom of the tanks getting
churned up & sucked into the pumps. The amount of water in the Escort's
float bowl tended to confirm this.

 

I say bollox.

I worked as a Fuel Injection Engineer for over 3 years and never heard
such a story.

 

I would imagine there is an element of truth in it.
At my flying club and all other airports I have been to, if they have had a
delivery of avgas (petrol) then the pumps that are fed from the newly topped
of tanks are shut for a couple of hours. Then they are tested by delivering
a gallon or so of fuel into a special sort of can that allows any water or
crud to separate and you can see it.
Must stir up shit and water when it's gushed into the tank IMHO.

 

Is that a fancy term for "petrol pump attendant" ?

 

Depends on the filter dunnit, we used 0.45 micron filters on our solvent
lines to remove gross contamination until some bright spark put 0.22
micron filters in which blinded in a matter of days. Water however
would still get through. The filter in the petrol station, if there is
one, should be finer than the injector nozzle.

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*rumbled*

 

heh

 

I guess I'll keep staying clear when they are filling tanks.
--
Mike

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Skype: muddycat

 

Really I didn't know that lol

Why couldn't you fix the fuel injection on the golf then ???

 

Heh, because it was an electrical problem.

 

with the fuel pump ...............