Fuel polishing/diesel tank cleaning Milton Keynes area

[Mike Tee]

Does anyone know of suppliers of this service in the MK area? Tried Google etc but no luck. (It is for a boat tank).

 

many thanks in anticipation

[alan_fincher]

Mike,

 

Certainly not a recommendation, but this lot seem to do a lot of self-promotion on Facebook groups where frankly I with they would do rather less!

 

I assumed their web-site would show where they operate, but if it does I'm missing it.

 

I kind of assumed until I looked that "GUDS" was Grand Union Diesel Services, (or something like), so might be in the area you want, but it doesn't say so, I think.

 

Not a great web page, though, and, as I say, not a recommendation!

[GeoffS]

I don't know how bad your contamination is but as a preventative measure I adapted an Oil Extractor Pump to have a wider tube and took out the contents of the bottom of the diesel tank until I was just getting diesel. There were between 5 and 6 litres of water and general crud. It is a 15 year old boat and I suspect it had not been done before. I combined this with using Diesel Bug additive and normally buying from high turnover outlets one of which adds a fuel conditioner as standard.

[Mike Tee]

I don't know how bad your contamination is but as a preventative measure I adapted an Oil Extractor Pump to have a wider tube and took out the contents of the bottom of the diesel tank until I was just getting diesel. There were between 5 and 6 litres of water and general crud. It is a 15 year old boat and I suspect it had not been done before. I combined this with using Diesel Bug additive and normally buying from high turnover outlets one of which adds a fuel conditioner as standard.

Its for my neighbors boat and not really contamination, more as you had - old boat, lack of maintenance. The boat would not start, and after taking off the water separater found enough rust and gunk to recycle it as a mooring pin.I'll pass on Alan's sugestion and see what he says. No mad panic as yet, its a project boat to keep him out of trouble. Didn't work!!

[matty40s]

Stowe Hill Workshops now offer this service although not as a mobile service yet although if there were several boats need doing in the same place he would consider it.

[n.b.Goldie]

Try River Canal Rescue. I am sure they will know something as they regularly deal with.contaminated fuel related breakdowns.

[monkeyhanger]

Does anyone know of suppliers of this service in the MK area? Tried Google etc but no luck. (It is for a boat tank).

 

many thanks in anticipation

I think that GUDS are based at the Marina just north of Cosgrove, the one close to the "Navigation" pub.

[Mike Tee]

Thank you all for the info.

[Charlotte Burnett]

I don't get fuel polishing - well, i do, but it seems more trouble than it's worth; £200 for someone to come and pump your fuel through increasingly fine filters.....how much diesel do you have that it's not more cost effective to drain the tank, clean it with a scourer and refill? OK, you have quite a lot on board....so how difficult is it to syphon the tank into some clean containers and stick it through a CAV filter by magikal use of gravitational phenomenon (pour it). Diesel bug is hardly inconspicuous - or any harder to clean up than snot off a toddler. I grant that bug in the injector lines is a bit of a pain - but that's a job for an engineer if you lack the confidence/ability/tools - not a "fuel polishing" specialist.

 

Perhaps I'm bitter because I can't conceptualise shiny fuel and prefer to smell of Tom Ford than diesel, even if other's know me more for smelling of diesel!

[Mike Tee]

Its not so much the bug, after 20+ years of condensation etc, its worth it to have the tank properly cleaned - and I don't think it is as much as £200

[matty40s]

Its not so much the bug, after 20+ years of condensation etc, its worth it to have the tank properly cleaned - and I don't think it is as much as £200

£100

 

I don't get fuel polishing - well, i do, but it seems more trouble than it's worth; £200 for someone to come and pump your fuel through increasingly fine filters.....how much diesel do you have that it's not more cost effective to drain the tank, clean it with a scourer and refill? OK, you have quite a lot on board....so how difficult is it to syphon the tank into some clean containers and stick it through a CAV filter by magikal use of gravitational phenomenon (pour it).

Perhaps I'm bitter because I can't conceptualise shiny fuel and prefer to smell of Tom Ford than diesel, even if other's know me more for smelling of diesel!

 

.

 

All well and good having enough containers lined up to take 350L of diesel and an access hole approx 1.5 cm across to clean base of tank through ......

Where do I keep 14 empty 25 litre containers when I am not using them??

 

Having seen some of the crap from the base of a couple of tanks recently, I think it is money well spent once in a while.

[KJT]

I have used GUDS for fuel polishing and they did a very good job. They even have a mini video camera that they put down into your tank before and after so you can see what they have done.

 

It was about £90 IIRC.

 

Ken

[RichardH]

I don't get fuel polishing - well, i do, but it seems more trouble than it's worth; £200 for someone to come and pump your fuel through increasingly fine filters.....how much diesel do you have that it's not more cost effective to drain the tank, clean it with a scourer and refill? OK, you have quite a lot on board....so how difficult is it to syphon the tank into some clean containers and stick it through a CAV filter by magikal use of gravitational phenomenon (pour it). Diesel bug is hardly inconspicuous - or any harder to clean up than snot off a toddler. I grant that bug in the injector lines is a bit of a pain - but that's a job for an engineer if you lack the confidence/ability/tools - not a "fuel polishing" specialist.

 

Perhaps I'm bitter because I can't conceptualise shiny fuel and prefer to smell of Tom Ford than diesel, even if other's know me more for smelling of diesel!

 

We got into fuel cleaning because one of our boats ended up with a large amount of water in the tank which was being drawn into the Webasto.

 

We initially thought along these lines - easy, pump out the fuel, separate it and clean the tank. First issue, how do you clean the tank through a 2 inch filler pipe. If you do manage to pump out the diesel and it has bug present filtration is still required.

 

Bottom line is, like anything, if you have the time and equipment anything is possible. Others prefer to spend £120 or so and let someone else crack on.