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Can anyone give me any first hand information on these things. I am thinking of installing them in a 32 luhrs with newer yanmar 315-6lp-ste motors. I am trying to reduce the soot on the transom and maybe increase mileage if possible.
Do you really think it will increase your mileage? Do you think that putting magnets on your fuel lines will help the soot? There are a number of additatives, and the use of a polishing system with filters will help to keep sludge out of the fuel, and are good ideas on any diesel engine, unless it is run daily, or has high fuel usage, such as in commercial use. I have never used an Algae X system--but have used filtration and polishing systems, biocides and addatives, with some decrease in fuel problems.
Can anyone give me any first hand information on these things. I am thinking of installing them in a 32 luhrs with newer yanmar 315-6lp-ste motors. I am trying to reduce the soot on the transom and maybe increase mileage if possible.
Have you tried a Valve adjustment first? then maybe injectors to reduce soot. Could just need some tuning of those items.
[edit] Algae, microbes, and water
There has been much discussion and misinformation about algae in diesel fuel[citation needed]. Algae require sunlight to live and grow. As there is no sunlight in a closed fuel tank, no algae can survive there. However, some microbes can survive there, and can feed on the diesel fuel.
These microbes form a slimy colony that lives at the fuel/water interface. They grow quite rapidly in warmer temperatures. They can even grow in cold weather when fuel tank heaters are installed. Parts of the colony can break off and clog the fuel lines and fuel filters.
It is possible to either kill this growth with a biocide treatment, or eliminate the water, a necessary component of microbial life. There are a number of biocides on the market, which must be handled very carefully. If a biocide is used, it must be added every time a tank is refilled until the problem is fully resolved.
Biocides attack the cell wall of microbes resulting in lysis, the death of a cell by bursting. The dead cells then gather on the bottom of the fuel tanks and form a sludge, filter clogging will continue after biocide treatment until the sludge has abated.
Given the right conditions microbes will repopulate the tanks and re-treatment with biocides will then be necessary. With repetitive biocide treatments microbes can then form resistance to a particular brand. Trying another brand may resolve this.
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The Yanmar 6LP is quite sensitive to fuel quality. If you have not tried it, get some FPPF fuel additive (marine formula). The Yanmar distributor Mack Boring sells it but you can find it if you look around. It helped mine enormously, practically eliminating the transom soot.
You also need to be sure you are not getting soot due to overloaded engines. Can you turn 3900 or so at WOT with a normal load? A lot of boat manufacturers overprop Diesels so the boats seem to go faster -- until the engine dies a premature death from excessive temperatures and pressure from the overloaded running.
With the costs of a set of diesels being what they are, I would happily swing a dead chicken around my head under a full moon if I thought it would help.
With that said, I have two algae-x filters, one on each engine. There is a lot of theory behind it and the good news is it can't hurt.
Can't say the same with additives. I definitely stay away from additives unless I have old fuel issues and then algae-x makes an excellent additive that really seemed to work for me. Additionally, the algae-x additive helps clean out your tank. I turns junk into usable fuel.
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With the costs of a set of diesels being what they are, I would happily swing a dead chicken around my head under a full moon if I thought it would help.
Don't really know how they control soot or improve mileage but;
During the hot summer months we were having SEVERE algae problems on our commercial tug boats. Biocide alone wasn't working.
We installed 18 Algae-X's 2 summers ago and haven't had any algae related problems since.
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That is crap.
Which idiot told you that CO2 only makes up 0.039% of the atmosphere?
I've been running a boat that had the Algae-X unit installed. I haven't had a lick of trouble with clogged filters, injectors or soot. At each fill-up, I mix the ALGAE-X Fuel Catalyst additive as prescribed.
Call it voo-doo if you will, but its cheap insurance in my book!
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I'm with RAZZ. No problems in the past 3 years since installing the Algae-X units. I also use their additive and my filters tend to stay clean and I get no smoke or soot on the transom. I haven't tried swinging the chicken yet but who knows.
I have Algae-X's on each of my Yanmar 6CX-ete s and haven't had any problems with junk in the tank...Same opinion...its some extra voodoo and my chicken is starting to stink from being swung in the hot sun for so long....
Ryan
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