Algae Solution?

gandalf · Jan 23, 2016

I found this on another forum I frequent, a marine and boat forum. Boats have a more serious algae problem than we have in trucks, so those people are always looking for solutions. Will this products work as well as claimed? I have no idea, I've never used it. It's certainly worth a second look, though.

Algae Eater

The opening post has a UTube link.

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riotwarrior · Jan 24, 2016

Reminds me of snake oil...looks like homemade printed label a d a garage for a lab

laserjock · Jan 24, 2016

Interesting. I pulled the msds for it. Under hazardous ingredients it says "N/A trade secret". As a scientist who deals with nasty stuff on a regular basis it ****** me off to no end that companies can get away with that. It says they are smart microbes. My guess is it's probably an enzyme or enzymes to digest the algae that way.

jwalterus · Jan 24, 2016

regardless of if this one works, if you are running an algicide, keep a few fuel filters on hand......

opusd2 · Jan 27, 2016

We run that algicide on the farm for anything that sits a while, or just as protection. And I definitely recommend changing your Primary (or only) fuel filter a couple tanks down the road, and after initially running the product initially.

OLDBULL8 · Jan 27, 2016

That fuel in the test sure looks cloudy after the treatment. Regardless the fuel has to be filtered. Diesel fuel is Hydroscopic, absorbs water, if there is enough water from condensation or just plain getting it from pump at a fuel supplier, if it's in your tank long enough and separates to the tank bottom, in a warm environment it gonna grow algae. @laserjock What say you, is that correct?

laserjock · Jan 27, 2016

I would say you are probably right Bill. Algae isn't real picky about where it grows. It doesn't need much. A good dose of isopropyl alcohol would probably do wonders to keep it to a minimum. I agree that it sure looks cloudy to me at the end too. It might be small enough to pass through the filter but I'd sure carry a couple spares. The good thing about algae, especially once its been chewed up is there is nothing "hard" that would really hurt the pump as long as it makes it through the filter and don't gum up the pump. Personally, I might run the stuff as a final clean-up after I had cleaned everything the best I could or maybe even prophylactically but as a fix it and forget it, I'd be a little skeptical. Things are rarely as simple as they seem.

OLDBULL8 · Jan 27, 2016

Ya know, I forgot to mention that every once in awhile I add a couple of cans of gas treatment to the tanks when they are almost empty the day before filling, so far I've never had an algae problem.

A friend had a GM bus and he passed away. His Son wanted to know what to do while waiting to sell the bus. I put 4 cans of Gas treatment in the fuel tank which was pretty low on fuel. Three years later I started the Bus up and ran it for quite sometime, no problem with any algae, both filters (primary/secondary) where as clean as the day they where new. Actually cut the primary open just to see for my own benefit. The Bus was stored in a barn, so there was lot of different changes of temp. The buyer wanted to know how long the fuel had been in it.

laserjock · Jan 27, 2016

Anything that is a gas treatment that removes water usually has isopropyl alcohol in it. IPA is great for dragging water into organics or organics into water. It does a great job of cleaning grease off of things like a stainless steel sink or an appliance. Good for cleaning glass too if you've got something pesky on it.

Clb · Jun 8, 2016

So after my fsv issue and putting prefilters on and the facet, I see some of the brown garbage in the prefilters.
Truck sat for 11 months a year.
Anyone have the magic snake oil for the issue?
If this is a true representation of the facts this stuff looks good.

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