Fuel Types

Can somone explain the types of fuel you could get for the W-9? What does "All-Fuel" mean?, and what is distillate?

"All Fuel" was a John Deere term and was not used by IHC. Most IHC models were offered for; kerosene, distilate, or gasoline. In the South we called distilate "tractor fuel".The diesel tractors were of different design. Both the kerosene models and the distilate models had a lower compression ratio than the gasoline models (kerosene had lowest, then distilate, then gasoline, then high altitude gasoline had the highest compression ratio) and had a seperate small tank which was filled with gasoline for starting. They also had adjustable shutters on the radiator and a heated manifold as it was necessary for the kerosene and distilate engines to run hotter in order to efficiently burn the fuel. During the 30's, 40's, and early 50's distillate was the fuel of choice in the South. I think kerosene was mostly burned overseas at the time. In the 50's distillate was gradually phased out in the South and LPG became the fuel of choice untill diesel started gaining in the 1960's. I only know about the SE USA but I don't think distilate was ever used very much in other parts of the USA. A kerosene or distillate tractor will run fine on gasoline, just have a little less power. The John Deere term "All Fuel" ment it would run on kerosene, distilate, or gasoline and had a lower compression than the JD gasoline models and also had shutters and heated manifold.

The W-9 was offered in kerosene, distilate, or gasoline. The WD-9 was a different dual combustion chambered head engine which started on gasoline and ran on diesel.

Harold H

Harold, we used the distlate in Arkansas in the 40s and 50s it was the main fuel, in fact I had a model A Ford car when I was a teenager and I would use it in the car when the weather was hot, had to use the choke a lot until she got good and hot, I left there in 53 and hav'ent seen any since, Over here in Tennessee thay talk about useing kerosene years ago, I don't ever remember us useing kerosene, the distilate was a light green color. Ya'll have a good day. Jimmy

Distillate is short for petroleum distillate. As I understand it, it was a waste product from the refining of gasoline.