Re: Help Choosing the right fuel

Posted by Bill Smith on November 18, 2001 at 11:39:38 from (128.242.4.59):

In Reply to: Help Choosing the right fuel posted by Emil Manzo on November 15, 2001 at 09:28:28:

Your tractor will run better on a heavier fuel because it is still set up to burn heavier fuel. It probably still has the shutters, distillate manifold, and distilate jets in the carb, and duel tanks, and a different designed head. The tractor was only intended to run on gas tell the engine warmed up, so all adjustments are probably set so it will run smoother on the heavier fuel which is what was intended to burn most of the time. I would burn distillate and then burn kero in it and compare how it run on each fuel. If it runs better on one than the other then I would burn that fuel. If no difference you are probably safe to run it on either one. As for blending fuels I have't had very good luck with that. My exsperience with mixing gas and diesel is that the diesel goes to the bottom of tank and the gas will come to the top and you end up burning pretty much straight diesel. Pore it in a glass and check it out. You can see the seperation line. As for unleaded gas you are probably all right. Especially if you are just using gas to heat the engine up for another fuel. Unleaded gas will be O.K. but if you are going to run it for hours and hours on straight gas you might think about dumping in a lead additive. I don't know of any good additives. I don't think any of them do the same thing the lead did. What you do with this tractor depends on what you want and how you are going to use it. If you are going to use this tractor for short time spans then you might want to convert it to run better on gas. It probably takes a good 10 to 15 minutes to preheat the engine for the fuel switch and then when you are done with it it takes a good 5 minutes to burn the heavy fuel out of carb when you switch back to gas for shut down. This would be nothing but a hassle for short time spans and you probably would just end up burning gas most of the time even though it didn't run smoothly. But if you are going to run it for lenghthy time spans then the heavy fuel would work out O.K. Most of these type tractors have been converted over to burn straight gas. In other words they changed the jets out in carb, swapped manifolds, used big tank for gas and never used little tank again, and let the shutters become none functional. Most of the time they just used the same head, and manifold, they just made the manifold run cooler. You just need to decide what is best for you, but if you convert to gas I would make sure that you could switch back to the original distillate set up, so don't discard or damage any of the distillate stuff.

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