Oil & Fuel Use of Home heating oil in a diesel engine

[Roger66]

Definitely maybe. Depends on what your tractor engine has for emission equipment. If you have no emission equipment, ie; particle filters, DEF additive, NOx controls, etc, then you can use any diesel fuel, from the pump or home heating oil. If you do have all the newer emission nonsense, then you need to make sure the fuel you are using is the Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel. High Sulfur fuels mess up the catalytic converter and generates more particles and you will overload the particle filter. You won't ruin the engine, but you could destroy the emission equipment and that can get very expensive to replace.

My engine is a 2017 so it's Tier 4, but it's under 26 HP so there is no DPF, DEC or common rail. I don't think it has any emissions controls that I know of. It's pretty much a standard old style diesel engine.

Thanks

 

[Sawyer Rob]

NO it will NOT hurt your diesel...

SR

 

[Paystar]

Here in Canada anyway diesel is diesel. Off road fuel and furnace oil is nothing more than died red on road fuel with no road tax.

We are a fuel and oil distributer. I fuel my tractor out of my furnace oil tank. And my furnace burns coloured and clear fuel......whatever I end up bringing home in my tank.

 

[truckdiagnostics]

My engine is a 2017 so it's Tier 4, but it's under 26 HP so there is no DPF, DEC or common rail. I don't think it has any emissions controls that I know of. It's pretty much a standard old style diesel engine.

Thanks

Based on the above you will be fine.

 

[RoyJackson]

Home heating oil is not winterized, to the best of my knowledge...so you might want to add an anti-gell (such as Power Service) when you fill you tractor's tank

 

[aczlan]

Home heating oil is not winterized, to the best of my knowledge...so you might want to add an anti-gell (such as Power Service) when you fill you tractor's tank

I put it in when the tank gets filled, that way I don't forget to add it when I fuel up.

Aaron Z

 

[MHarryE]

Pump where I get my fuel is labeled off-highway dyed fuel/home heating oil. Pretty much takes the doubt out of interchangeability. Same pump has been labeled ULSD since I started getting fuel there in 2011.

 

[Msamt]

Just transferred another 50 gallons from my decommissioned (switched to propane) heating oil tank to my garage tractor barrel a this makes it 225 gallons in the past 8 months that have gone to/thru the tractor. No ill effects, no smoking, nothing different in the HHO and diesel, fuel supplier certified in writing the fuel was the same as off-road diesel.

 

[fried1765]

Just transferred another 50 gallons from my decommissioned (switched to propane) heating oil tank to my garage tractor barrel a this makes it 225 gallons in the past 8 months that have gone to/thru the tractor. No ill effects, no smoking, nothing different in the HHO and diesel, fuel supplier certified in writing the fuel was the same as off-road diesel.

I find this discussion quite interesting!
Around the world, from desert to jungle, to arctic, diesel is used as it comes from a 55 gal. drum.
Quality is OFTEN questionable, but unless it contains water, a diesel engine will run on it.
I have no idea if a current day electronically emasculated diesel will do so however.

 

[Roger66]

I find this discussion quite interesting!
Around the world, from desert to jungle, to arctic, diesel is used as it comes from a 55 gal. drum.
Quality is OFTEN questionable, but unless it contains water, a diesel engine will run on it.
I have no idea if a current day electronically emasculated diesel will do so however.

Around the world does not have US EPA requirements. You never know what those boneheads in congress legislated into the Tier 4 requirements! I think my little 25 HP Mitsubishi is non-emissions, but right on the engine is says Low sulfur Diesel only. Of course that sticker could have been a government requirement? It's hard to know and It's hard to trust what the dealer tells you because the dealer should only give the safe legal answer which of course is only use fresh Diesel. Which prompts a question of storage of Diesel. Perhaps I'll start another thread on that.