Re: Distillate?

Posted by Bill Smith on December 27, 2002 at 11:32:14 from (63.147.130.4):

In Reply to: Distillate? posted by DANWV on December 26, 2002 at 19:59:47:

Hi Dan, Repost of a 1999 gave you some good info on the various fuels. Just thought I would post a little info on distillate tractors. Probably the number one reason they had distillate burners was becuase distillate or kerosene was in fact cheaper than gas (note that it is just the opposite today). Distillate burners were more of a hassle to opporate and tractors actually ran better with more power on gas. I have a distillate burning F-20 and I restored it so that you could burn the two different fuels. I burned a gas, diesel mixture in it as distillate a few times but was real unhappy with mixing the fuels. They didn't seem to mix well at all. The diesel would always settle to the bottom of tank and pretty much went to carb as straight diesel. It is my opinion that tractor did not run the same (worse actually) as it would of on the actual distilate fuel of the pre 1950 era. I just said the heck with it and I just run straight gas all the time in it now. I would only advise a guy to burn dual fuels in a demonstration type setting. When burning distilate, start up and shut down of tractor had to be with gas. You started on gas to heat up the engine so that it would run on distilate. Cold tractor would not run on distilate. Then you switched back to gas for shut down so that you could get tractor started again. This is why they had the two fuel tanks (one tank for each fuel).

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