Trucks gelling up in the winter, what is the solution?

Wallwork's KW in Fargo always has cases during that time of year.

 

If in Grand Forks, you pay Red River Motors $10.00 to put your tractor in the shop overnite, Crank, go load potatoes, and drive south at as good a clip as road condition allow. Run below the cities till spring...

 

In the winter time with a Cat you’ll have better luck running a Fleetguard filter or something like that so it lets more chunks through. Cat filters are pretty restrictive.

 

cats return a ton of fuel and keep the tanks pretty warm. I had a fuel temp probe right in line before the first filter and it rarely read much below freezing even when it was stupid cold.

 

Im doubtful on this, had a kitty that simply wouldnt run (as in felt like i had a turbo boot off) on the fleetgaurd because it was TOO restrictive, changed for a cat filter, instant power back.

Its possible i just had a bad batch of fuel but i went through 3 fleetguards before the cat and it was night and day, instantly restored power

 

I don’t know. The KW I had with the 5ek loved Fleetguard or Napa filters in the winter. Could only run Cat in the summer and even then for only about 10k miles.

 

When it starts getting below 0 consistently, a winter front is a helpful thing.

 

If it was only in the water separator then it wasn’t gelled. The water that the filter collected had froze. The only treatment for that is drain it daily.

 

Ran for 20 years, only ever gelled up one time.
That was due to taking six months off starting in August with a full tank of summer fuel. Went back to work in February at -32.
Truck still ran but wouldn’t go over 45 mph. I put in two bottles of some emergency fuel treatment that a mechanic recommended. Let the truck idle parked for about 15 minutes until it quit. Waited another 30 minutes for the stuff to do its magic. Truck started up and got me down the road far enough to get into warmer weather.
If I was Deep South and heading north I kept filling the tanks at half. As you get north the local truck stops have seasonally adjusted fuel additives to keep the fuel from gelling. So by the time I got into the real cold all the warmer locations fuel was gone.

 

The micron rating in Cat Filter is higher than Fleetguard so technically Cat filters are more restrictive..
I myself run Cat fuel filters year round but I’am very choosy where I buy my fuel
I won’t buy Casey’s fuel if I was on fumes