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Old 1st Aug 2002, 09:41
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criticalmass
 
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Chlamydia Resinae is one of the little bugs that like to live in hyrdocarbon fuels, I have occasionally heaved a plug of it outta the fuel-filter on my Diesel Toyota Troopy.

How about using centrifugal oil-purifiers like they use on ships to remove crud, Chlamydia, water etc from fuel? As for the problem with freezing levels, why not either heat the tanks or use a lower-temp blend (e.g. Alpine-blend) which I understand is regularly used in the Snowy in winter.

Would love a little diesel for the microlight but the power-weight ratio of the Rotax 582 is very hard to argue with.
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