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Originally Posted by patrick_g
(Also for Steve in MD)
Gas in diesel is NOT GOOD. I would love to see a reference posted to just one reputable manufacturer who recommends adding gasoline to diesel fuel!!!!
Kerosene is the additive of choice for making #2 diesel into "winter diesel" and is, in my experience, mixed with as much as 1/2 kerosene, i.e. 50-50.
Leaving a few gal of gas in a tank to be filled with diesel is NOT GOOD PRACTICE.
Lets not put all the effort off on POWERLINEFIXER... Please anyone... name a source, give a reference, quote an available document... provide evidence that any reputable diesel manufacturer recommends gasoline to be added to diesel fuel.
Pat
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I'd go one further. Actually recommendation is for #1 diesel instead of K1 kerosene. A lot of pumps in the northern climates already are premixed for winter with up to 50/50 #1 and #2. K1 is not #1 diesel despite popular opinion. Check with a fuel supplier. K1 is a very, very dry fuel that is not good for pumps and injectors. With a lubricity additive, it will work in a pinch, but not the ideal way to go for winterized fuel.
I will agree.... gasoline is NOT to be added to diesel for any use, winter or not. NO supplier or manufacturer ever recommends this. In actuality, all engine manufacturers tell you not to ever do it. It is not beyond the possibility that you will sustain engine damage.
A lot of these "home brews" are from earlier times. Diesel engines have advanced so much in the last 2 decades that these cocktail fuels will cause substantial damage. You'll get a person here of there that claims they do it with no problems, but do you want to take the risk with your equipment? One of my diesels would cost $12K just to do a rebuild.
I have driven semis in Alaska for 6 years straight, and have been operating diesel semis, construction equipment, and ag equipment for better part of my life. I wouldn't chance an expensive repair to some home brew fuel cocktail. There are so many excellent fuel addtives on the market that will lower cloud and pour points in diesel that in all but the most extreme cases you need not do mix anything else in the fuel. I have run straight #2 with a good fuel addtive at -30F temps with no problem. That is extreme and I should have mixed in some #1 to avoid clogging a filter.
I go thru better than 26,000 gallons of diesel a year. It fuels my business, so I can't afford to play Russian Roulette with my engines.