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[PeteF]

Yes Alan, Diesel waxing dissappeared in the 80's. It was actual company policy to allow us to put petrol in to prevent waxing - lord knows what it did to the injector pumps!

[Alan R]

------------VROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMM!!! How's that ?? Caught up at last (In the GPO MT/W's we put about 5% paraffin during the winter months.. Rodger--our Assistant Tech.--- was detailed to do this one morning during a fuel delivery..... Next day half the fleet of lightweight vans were frozen and "waxed" (He'd put the paraffin in AFTER the diesel, not before !!)----just in time for the Christmas rush as well..Happy Days.......OK, I'm now in the modern world, SO--- did you read that info. on "Milky Petrol" ?????

[simon]

In the 80's I spent 18 months in Blighty and during my big OE I stored my Benelli 650 Tornardo under my mother in laws house in the the Blue Mountains outside of Sydney. When I got back I kicked it for nearly a whole day trying to get it started before I thought of emptying the carb bowls of the old stale petrol. I actually managed to dowse a match in it even though it still looked and smelled like petrol. The stuff in the tank was fine but this was still in the days of old tetra- ethel lead fuel so it was a an altogether more robust substance than the unleaded mank they sell us now. You can imagine how stupid and exhausted I felt when I finally worked out what the issue was.