Diesel anti gel additives

With the newer trucks you should not need anti-gel in theory.. they have pre-heaters in the fuel system and the def system. It’s cheap insurance if your going of the beaten path, such as miles out on a lake. (stuff breaks at the worst times) We used it at the dealership in the Sprinters… if it got below 0′, almost 100% would no start, tow them into the shop to thaw. Then I was turned onto Stanadyne and we would treat them all at the beginning of the season and they would fire off all winter.

Adam Steffes wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>luckydave wrote:</div>
It probably doesn’t need any additives being that new. My Chev 2015 Duramax does not need anything per Chevrolet and never had any issues.

Please don’t inadvertently fill your truck up with bio blend when the truck will sit outside in weather like we just experienced. It’s not the age or make or model of the truck, it’s also not a ford, chevy, new filter, old filter thing. Its a physical phase conversion of the fuel in the tank and it will turn into a slushy mess that will not flow. Once you try to start it, the filters get packed with wax from the fuel and no amount of heat will free them up. You’ll end up swapping fuel filters and towing it to a heated space to get it running again.

Bio in winter is touchy. Bio fuel is made with basically cooking oil. Your filters don’t fill/plug with wax the fill/plug up with grease.

As G said I have heard Stanadyne is very good. I also heard it’s expensive? I haven’t used it myself.

This is what bio will do to filters at current temps.

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Yep – the whole tank turns into snot – no way to get that running again without warming it up and replacing filters. Bio is the worst for this by far over petro diesel. A filter head heater will do nothing when the truck has cold soaked and the whole tank is full of that snot. Fair warning lol.

Here is a question, because I don’t know the answer. If MN has to have bio diesel even in the winter why is not every diesel in the state dead in the driveway or on the side of the road this morning when the temp is below -20F pretty much everywhere in the state and -30F to the north? Do they stop with the bio fuel when the fuel mix starts in the fall?

I looked it up. In theory Bio Fuel should be a non issue unless a gas station sell so little fuel that there is too much left in the tanks when the weather gets really cold.

What is the requirement for diesel?
The biodiesel mandate law requires a 20 percent blend of biodiesel (“B20”) in most diesel fuel sold in
Minnesota during the warm-weather period of April 15 through the end of September. October through
March, the mandate level reverts to B5 due to concerns about B20’s performance in cold weather.
During the spring transition from B5 to B20 each April, the minimum content level is temporarily B10 in
order to provide time for fuel sellers to transition their diesel inventory to B20.
Biofuel Use Mandates
The law authorizes the executive branch to suspend the use mandate for a limited period of time if
there is not enough biodiesel fuel available or if the wholesale price of biodiesel is so high relative to
diesel fuel that the mandate would cause economic hardship for gas stations and other diesel fuel
sellers who may lose business to competitors located outside of the state.

I got one dead one and one live one in the driveway. My fault for not starting them for 4 days in this crap.

The Cummins was plugged in every night and started great.
CanAm started every day so I was able to fish, I just put the battery tender on it.
The fronts tires on the SxS went flat so I needed to fire up the gas compressor. When I tried starting that it felt like there was jello in there for oil so I dragged it out by the exhaust from the pick-up. Let it sit there for 10 minutes and the compressor fired right up.
So overall I was pleased with all the internal combustions I needed this past weekend.

My Cummins was plugged in. I know the main problem is batteries I was trying to get one more year out of them. Fail. Now it’s been sitting since last Monday and it just clicks once giving me the big F U.

That old Powerstroke will sit out there and hammer like a old single lung John Deere though.

You don’t see a bunch of broken down rigs because fuel wholesalers try to blend winter and summer and transition fuels. I just don’t like to base my success or failure on what a fuel supplier should or could be doing. I avoid bio all together. I run fossil fuel 2-d with treatment until its really cold, then I start putting some 1-d in with treatment until the cold eases up a bit and I go back to straight fossil 2-d. Others just run whatever comes out of the green pump handle and thats fine too…until it isn’t.

How about we share the locations of where #1 diesel is available. #1 doesn’t contain any of the paraffin’s found in #2. Mixing it in can lower the gel point. The only place I know of is EC’s corner express @ the truck island on hwy 47 & 95.

Thanks guys. Had no problems this long cold weekend. Put in #2 from Kwik Trip, and directed amount of power services. Also started the pickup every 6 or so hours.

Here’s this mornings start, -24…..🥶