Date:         Wed, 22 Dec 1999 14:58:28 -0500
Reply-To:     Bulley <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Bulley <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
Subject:      Sulfur out of Diesel

It's weird...I listened to the "Sky is falling" stuff about sulfur going
out of diesel, and bought Stanadyne, and Hobbs additives for a couple
years. Did a C/B analysis and realized I could buy a new fuel pump every
three-four years for what I was putting into my tank in additives. Stopped
putting them in three and a half years ago. Guess what happened...

Nothing. My Jetta TD has nearly 190k on the original pump and injectors and
drinks regular ol' diesel from pumps up and down the East Coast. Runs like
a top. I put FI cleaner in every once in a while, but nothing else. I get
roughly 42 mpg driving like a banshee.

I think the same folks who gave us the "sky is falling without Sulfur in
Diesel" are the same folks who a delivering the Y2K computer scare that
will soon prove to be nothing.

G. Matthew Bulley
Bulley-Hewlett
Corporate Communications Counselors
www.bulley-hewlett.com
Cary, NC USA
888.468.4880 tollfree

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-----Original Message-----
From:   Horace K. Sawyer [SMTP:firestream@MINDSPRING.COM]
Sent:   Wednesday, December 22, 1999 2:32 PM
To:     vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject:        Re: New EPA rules for gasoline

I seem to recall that there was a lowering
>of sulphur levels in Diesel fuel some years ago.  It supposedly played
hell on
>VW, Volvo, MB, and other automotive Diesel engines because the sulphur was
>acting as a fuel system lubricant (?) and the lack thereof caused injector
and
>injector pump failure (at least that's how I remember it).

        SUPPOSEDLY nothing, it in fact trashed many a diesel fuel injection
pump.
Two of them belonging to your humble servant.  At the time I had two BMW
524td's, an MB td, and some misc td's.

        Now we add Redline, ATF, or other nice ingredients to diesel to
make it
real nice and slicky.

No more problems, two rebuilt pumps later . . .

Merry Christmas
and happy Holidays
HK