Your comment "copper leaches into the fuel and fucks up your injector pump permanently" has me concerned. Would you or anyone else care to elaborate. The fuel in this case is biodiesel (methylesters).
It has been well known for generations that copper leeches into diesel fuel, so you get minute particles of leeched copper going into the injection pump, which is a fairly critical precision bit of machining, and this damages and ages it prematurely.
Time was english board of trade would not certify ANY diesel installation if any copper pipe was used anywhere, nowadays everyone is a cheapskate and nobody gives a shit if a pump dies after a few thousand hours, unless you work to MOD or US coast guard or Lloyds or any other proper standard, in which case copper is still verboten.
course copper is cheap and fast and easy to install.
if you using bio fuel the problem is several orders of magnitude worse, because it not only leeches into the fuel and fucks the pump, it catalyses the fuel itself changing the very properties and composition of the fuel itself.
Now a comment on another part of your post.
So I got her out of bed and we had a heart to heart
You got a pregnant woman out of bed because you didn't like the way she did the dishes???
Did it ever occur to you to maybe help out and do them yourself if you're going to be so anal about dishwashing procedure. You best edjucate yourself on what a woman goes through when she's pregnant. She needs your help and support, not some demanding tyrant picking at her!!!
Bill
1/ who said she was pregnant? I know why you assumed it, but the fact is you assumed it, and you assumed wrong.
2/ if I'd done the job myself they wouldn't have been left on the drainer in the first place, i'm not into picking up after other people and finishing their work, I'm not into indulging behaviour that will have a negative impact on their lives in the long run, and most of all I don't keep a dog and bark myself.
3/ this is the year 2006, not 1906, if a woman in western society gets pregnant nowadays the ONLY reason it happened was because she chose for it to happen, and once it happens they call all the shots, unless you know of a single court case anywhere where an unwilling father convinced a court to order an woman to have an abortion.
4/ a pregnant woman is just like a pregnant anything else, theres a couple of million years of evolution there and god takes care of everything else, unless you believe a sperm is a human being with a right to life no matter what and medical intervention at any cost.
5/ if you ask the woman in question (if you like I'll get her to chat to you in real time in IM or on the phone) whether I'm a demanding tyrant picking on her, or the only person on the planet who stood in the way of her sucking a yard of cock to get a hamburger and a pit to sleep in you'll get some surprises you weren't expecting.
6/ if you ask the one who is pregnant if all the other men in her life put together, including the fathers of her two previous children, did 10% of what I did for them and her, or gave 1% as much of a fuck about them, you'll get some more surprises you weren't expecting.
7/ Life is just too fucking short to bother with this crap, when I come on here with my hand out asking for something feel free to jump on my back and ride like a monkey, when you start paying money into my households feel free to pass any comments you like about how I run my life, hey seriously, I could do with some other fucker putting his hand in my pocket, cos as it is I got my hand in my pocket and my time and effort going to raise two other mens children, so I really would welcome cash contributions and time and effort cos that would mean I'd have more of my own money and time for the shit I want to do.
8/ until about 40 years ago, with advances in medical science, it was flatly impossible for any man to KNOW scientifically that any given child was his, and that shit is waaaaay more common than the vast majority of men want to believe, until little johnny is sick and the doctors discover "daddy" has an incompatible bloody type etc.
9/ until some time in the next few years, there has never been a woman born who did not know for a fact that every single child she carried was hers genetically, mary magdalene excepted if you happen to buy into that particular belief system.
10/ if men could get pregnant, you think with the availability of contraception there would be a SINGLE unplanned and unwanted pregnancy? no, nor are there amongst women, they just trot out the same old tired shit excuses that no other woman buys for even a nanosecond.
11/ pregnancy is not a disease, it is not an illness, it is not a burden, women love to tell you how much giving birth huts (even though most of em have lumbar or cesarian now anyway) (hey lady, ever been kicked in the balls?) and it hurts so much almost none of em only have one kid.
12/ now that we routinely fuck with animals that we profess to love, neutered and castrated dogs are turning up all sorts of ailments that never would have happened if they been allowed at least one breeding cycle first.
13/ the LAW as it stands now means the mother gets the only vote that actually counts about anything and everything to do with that kid until age 16, if you don't like it you can kick the bitch to the kerb, but you still get to pay child support. I never heard of any women rallying or writing politicians to get that changed....
14/ now you expect me to treat women like they used to be treated when they were chattels, eg all the benefits of being under a mans protection, but I don't get any of the benefits, but all of the drawbacks, and then a few new ones invented along the way, I believe the american expression for that is pussy whipped.
15/ I don't hate women, or men, but I don't have ANY illusions about men and women when it comes to sex, fidelity, parenthood, raising kids or any of that shit, not a single one, and that makes me real unpopular, cos now we have decided collectively that sitting a child in front of the idiots lantern watching fucking teletubbies while stuffing it with processed food is not child abuse, but smacking the little shits when you catch them playing with matches is because suddenly we became different to the rest of the animal kingdom when it comes to learning, and the little darlings really don't spend 0 to 16 years pushing the envelope of behaviour in order to learn what is acceptable, they are just expressing themselves, so when a couple of the 8 year old little shits H^H^H^H beat another one to death, lie about it, and so on they are just expressing themselves, and it has nothng whatsoever to do with the fact they came from broken homes with no authority figure and no one to instill (see that word INSTILL, look it up in a dictionary sometime) a set or moral values and right from wrong in them, hey, it is society's fault.
16/ since we are indulging in behaviour that is nothing more than malicious supposition anyway, tell us bill, do you still beat your wife?