Cold weather and junk fuel

[John_Mc]

Up here the off road is often high sulfur.

Have you checked into that with the fuel distributor (not the gas station, who may not really know what they have)? In many parts of the country, the distribution network (trucks, storage tanks, etc) is all the same equipment. They just add the dye at the last possible step to differentiate what is subject to the over the road tax and what isn't.

 

[Jstpssng]

Have you checked into that with the fuel distributor (not the gas station, who may not really know what they have)? In many parts of the country, the distribution network (trucks, storage tanks, etc) is all the same equipment. They just add the dye at the last possible step to differentiate what is subject to the over the road tax and what isn't.

No, I haven't checked it. All that I know is that on the off-road pump it states that it's high sulfur fuel.

 

[Fallon]

No, I haven't checked it. All that I know is that on the off-road pump it states that it's high sulfur fuel.

There are a lot of those obselete & wrong stickers still around. I see them here in Colorado, but all our diesel is the new low sulphur.

 

[jbrumberg]

"..... From 2007 to 2014, low sulfur diesel fuel (specified at 500 ppm) and ULSD fuel was phased in for nonroad, locomotive, and marine (NRLM) diesel fuel.
After 2014, EPA’s diesel standards require that:
All nonroad, locomotive, and marine (NRLM) diesel fuel must be ULSD; and
All NRLM engines and equipment must use this fuel (with some exceptions for older locomotive and marine engines)."- From the EPA's Diesel Fuel Standards.

 

[AxleHub]

My supplier of fuel oil delivers in a typical tanktruck. It can carry and dispense 4 variations of product. I often have him fill some 5 gallon cans before doing the home heating oil. The last time he had just done a no. 1 delivery so everything in his 225 foot hose was no. 1 which went into my 6 fuel cans 1st and those go for the tractor. Lol.

 

[jbrumberg]

^^^^^:wink:

 

[BrokenTrack]

A can of 911 goes a LONGGGGGGGGGGGGGG ways to preventing gelling at low temperatures. It might be a cost, but messing with diesel fuel at 0 degrees means it is well worth it in my opinion.

 

[Oldpath05]

I picked 30 gal of off road fuel yesterday and still put the white bottle Power Service in, been buying it at the same store for the past 5 years, sofar havent had any issues with jellying. Didn't people in the old days add kerosene to diesel to make it run in cold weather.

 

[AxleHub]

Oldpath,

In my subcompact tractor I always use one type of power source. . . . . White bottle from Nov to April and I use grey bottle in May thru October.

My tractor sits outside and it has never gelled, even in -25 degrees.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Yes, I more or less made summer fuel into winter fuel with the addition of kerosene. It's just very expensive here. But so is a gelled fuel system.