Posted by Paul on May 30, 2013 at 10:33:58 from (66.60.223.232):
In Reply to: Furnace fuel posted by 37Chief on May 29, 2013 at 22:42:33:
There is #1 and #2 fuel oil.
1 is refined more, thinner, and doesn't gel until 60 below or so.
2 is less refined, thicker, better for a hot working engine, more btu per gallon, cheaper, and starts to gel below freezing.
If they add a package of lubricity and other additives, it becomes diesel fuel. Sometimes heating oil does not have the additive package.
Typically, most places, they do not carry 4 products, because it becomes too expensive to keep that many different inventoried products.
They just carry #1 diesel, and #2 diesel. It gets sold as either diesel fuel or heating fuel. Same thing.
Typically you can take old heating fuel, which most often actually is diesel fuel, and use it in an older, sulfur accepting diesel tractor. If you are worried about the additives missing, blending the old fuel with new fuel 50-50 should take care of it and won't bother an old Diesel engine at all.
We can't assume the heating fuel will be either #1 or #2 grade, but either will work as a tractor fuel, ESP if you blend it with good fuel. In cold climates like mine, typically winter diesel or winter heating fuel is a blend of the 2 grades of fuel, so the gel point gets down to minus 20 or so.
I would hesitate to use it in a very modern Diesel engine, with their very close tolerances, high pressures, and pollution control features that do not like sulfur. I think that might not be a good idea.
After testing it a bit for burning, and keeping any rust or water on the bottom of the old tank from getting mixed in, I would easily use it in my old 1970s diesel tractors and not worry about it.
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