jelly svo

[bbbmmm55]

As snow was heading my way and I had no wvo filtered I picked up 2 containers of ktc svo from costco. Mixed in some diesel/petrol and filled her up ready for to enjoy the blizzard.
Started this morning and she was running really rough and lumpy. Figured I would chuck a new filter in quickly then headed off to work.
Work done for the day i left her running while i cleared the snow but still rough running. I could see some bubbles after the filter so nipped up all worm clips, tank bolts anything i could get while freezing in the snow.
Loads of traffic but found a few good area to practice some drifting an got home about an hour later.
Running alot better but still not as normal. Check the filter still looks like the occasional bubble. I coukd not see anything obvious as the cause so went to grab some tools to investigate and found these.

 

[bbbmmm55]

The oil in the jar next to the cubie is old wvo thats been dewatered and filtered. Been sat on the bench all week. The cubies is fresh bought yesterday!
No wonder the truck is running lumpy as its like jelly!

 

[bbbmmm55]

The two pics are from two seperate containers so must be a bad batch or is this common with svo. As my wvo is still runny. I even have half a cubie filled with dregs that is literally black and thats still liquid.
Its a wonder the pump can suck any of tbis from the tank.

Anybody else suffered from this before?

 

[terranosaurusdoug]

My truck cut out this and yesterday morning about 30 seconds after starting, I figure that the fuel in the rubber lines had thickened but the stuff in the tank wasn't so bad, it was mainly diesel too, maybe 20-30/70 mix, I've put more diesel in now :thumb2

The wvo not thickening up is very interesting!!

 

[Monaro Pete]

I've had the same problem with the same oil as pictured in the OP's first post.
I put it down to getting too cold in my garage so I brought the oil in the house.
It cleared to normal when it warmed through :thumb2

 

[bbbmmm55]

Since then I have read that svo is filtered to 10 microns where as I had been filtering my wvo to 1 micron at ambient temp. So come the next winter if i get any more svo I try filtering it down at ambientto 1 micron an see if that makes any diffference.

 

[terranosaurusdoug]

Interesting,, what do you use to filter?

 

[bbbmmm55]

I use those long sock filters. Hanging from a piece of wood inside a slim water butt. Nothing fancy. Wether it will make any difference I dont know but worth a shot.

Hopefully we will get some nice cold weather this year to test.