Christopher McCann wrote:
Mitch,
This brings me to another dumb question: where does
the water come from?
Fuel - could install a water seperator
crankcase oil - if you have no cracks allowing coolant
into engine, how does water get in the oil?
toilet paper filter - now I thought THAT was a joke.
How does it work? Is there a special water seperator
filter for crankcase oil?
After taking the a/c out of the car, I have lots of
room for all sorts of separators.
In any tank containing fuel oil or engine oil that's lees than
completely full (almost every fuel tank, everywhere, most of the time)
there is some air in the tank. That air contains water. Any time the
temperature of the air drops below the dew point of the air with it's
particular water content, the water vapor condenses and it RAINS in the
tank. The water, being heavier than the fuel or oil sinks to the bottom
of the tank. When the temperature rises again, the water would otherwise
evaporate, BUT it's below the oil and that prevents evaporation - so the
water simply sits at the bottom of the tank and the water content
increases every time the temps drop below the dew point of the air. This
happens in the sump of your engine, but every time you run the engine
for a while the water is boiled out. It happens in your fuel tank too
(which is why I recommend that you add a dose of anti-gel or other water
sequestering agent to your tank in the fall and maybe midway thru the
winter to assure that the water is sequestered and disposed of). It
happens in the storage tanks at the "gas station" and at the tank farm
too or your home fuel oil tank.
Allow the quantity of water to remain there very long and algae will
grow (algae doesn't live in fuel - it lives in the water in the fuel and
it eats the fuel).
Marshall
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159Kmi, '87 190D 2.5 turbo 234kmi
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