Bad fuel

Shhh, let them think that loves fuel comes from this plant only, and pilot gets their fuel from a gold plated plant over the other side of grandma's house.

People would #### if they knew loves and pilot and ta share fuel nozzles at the depot.

 

I only use Carquest brand motor oil at home, I would never ever put Valvoline in anything I owned.

 

I'm guessing it's not loves fuel but the filter and tank maintenance of that loves facility.

 

Well idk then. I've not had problems there.

 

I have to agree with junkyard, sounds like they have something going on at that location.

In most tanks, the pump sits about a foot or slightly more above the bottom of the tank. Most also have a trap area under that. The tank pumps have no filtering on them, thats all in the dispenser lines. The actual dispenser has filters in it, might be one or two per nozzle, depending on brand and system.

A major problem with underground tanks is water infiltration. Even the newest ones. Most often it comes from surface water. It rains, the pavement and drainage gets overwhelmed, this results in a flooding situation. When that happens, water enters the tanks from the surface openings for filling and vapor recovery. As much as they try to keep them seald, it often fails. The next most common area is damaged to these lines. Ground settling can crack these lines, won't show as a product leak, but water can and does get in.

I can tell you that Chevron had a system for servicing underground tanks. When I worked for them, they had some small vacuum tank trucks used for cleaning the tanks. Did not matter if company or dealer, all branded locations were inspected at least twice a year.

 

Chevron, Shell, Valero and a number of other refiners are located in Benicia and Martinez, CA. Several pipe lines run various fuels all around the greater SF Bay area. At any time, these pipe lines could and do have fuels in them from any of the different refineries. At one time Chevron owned almost all of them. From some former co-workers, I understand this has now been changed to some form of operating co-op.

 

Only problem I've ever had was a circle k/76 that had 1 set of pumps for big rigs in SC. They did something, myself and everyone else I knew filling up there with 1-ton pickups went from getting 500 miles per tank to 300-350 per tank. I changed filters and all, nothing helped. Finally started going to the kangaroo down the road and instantly got the mileage back.