Re: LRO: Low/no sulfur diesel fuel

From: Steve Mace (steve@solwise.co.uk)
Date: Wed May 30 2001 - 06:00:02 EDT

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    I don't know about the valve situation but, in deference to the poor injector
    pump, several UK users (myself included) chuck a cup of clean engine oil in
    each time they fill up with derv.

    On 29 May 2001, at 14:01, Faure, Marin wrote:

    > I'm curious if the owners of
    > 2.25 diesel engines are facing similar potential problems as the
    > sulfur in diesel fuel is phased out?

    > So I'm curious if the phase-out of sulfur in diesel fuel has the potential to
    > cause valve seat (or other) problems in Series diesel engines. Anyone know?
    > And if the removal of sulfur brings with it potential problems, are there fixes
    > (like hardened seats and valves, "sulfur substitute," etc)

    Steve

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