sludge In fuel tank
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sludge In fuel tank
so I just got back from Afghanistan from a six month deployment about a week ago. I was excited to see my old truck nicknamed Juggernaut. After messing around with the fuel water separator and checking the fluids I cranked it up and it fired right up. After a few minutes the engine cut out. After checking my clear fuel filter I noticed what looked like a bunch of dead bugs. I cleaned it out and tried again same thing. Because it is my daily driver I did what anyone else would do put half a bottle of diesel clean in and topped off the tank. LOL I drove it back and forth to work (25 miles) and died each trip. Not to bad just cleaned the filter primed the system and it started right up. Then today I dropped the tank (always my luck the tank was full) and strained the fuel with the wifes collender thing. When I looked in the tank I saw about 1/2" of black sludge so I used my pressure washer to clean inside and out and it all came out. I then used a air chuck to blow the lines clean. I replaced the fuel filters and filled the fuel water separator with ATF and ran it for about 15 seconds and shut it down. Tomorrow I will run it for around 15 minutes and put the new separator on. Hopefully this will do the trick. Anyone have an I'dea what the sludge was and how to keep it from coming back? I use diesel kleen every fill up
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