Diesel and kerosene 50/50 mix?

[drizler]

Around here when you get fuel delivered off-road diesel and #2 heating oil come from the same truck and compartment, sometimes if you order blended fuel you will have to wait a few days for them to get enough stops to run a truck or they will fill one compartment with #2 and one with #1 and blend when they get to your tank. The fuel I put in my pickup comes from the stations in town.
So the blending is up to me as are the additives, so every thing gets a normal dose of Power Serve (the white bottle) and I have a summer and a winter tank the winter tank is 50/50 blended with a heavy dose plus an added lub additive

I asked the dealer about using fuel oil a couple years back, he said go ahead and use it as since 2006 it’s been all the same in NY, just dyed. I just toss a couple oz powerservice in each 5 gallon can and toss on about a gallon per can of kerosene for hard winter months. All I do is siphon out of a spare fuel oil tank and pour through a Mr Funnel.
No difference at all I can see. Nothing but the faintest trace in prefilter and a tad few drops of water after working hard all summer. Starts runs fine always even we’ll below zero. Screens plugup exactly as diesel and regen at exactly the same 50 hours +- 10. I’d like to get some biodiesel or biofueloil to add in for lube but I’m not going to shag it 75 miles all the way from Burlington Vt and biofuel Oil around here just dried up a while back. They say it’s a great lubricating additive, the best by far in a test I saw published someplace.

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

Good to know. Thanks. :thumbsup:

 

[Tractor Seabee]

Years ago marine and agriculture diesel was #3; thicker, higher Cetane, more carbon, more sulfur, and more power. With the advent of low sulfur oil I have not seen #3 anymore. We used it in large generators as we could get a little more KW from the same engine.

It is amazing what has been run in diesel engines. at one time they were adding coal dust to diesel fuel. Of course the big marine diesels (cargo ships) used #5 and #6. They are still around I think; turbines using DF2, 1, or Jet fuel are taking over though. They are basically asphalt and have to be heated to pump. All kinds of animal and vegetable oils have been used. I heard once (not confirmed) that adding water to diesel causes the combustion to break out the hydrogen and oxygen adding to the power factor and having a cooling effect. There was no formula on QTY with the rumor. It may have been an atomizing process which has been tried with gasoline engines with mixed reviews.

Ron

 

[Jcoon]

I asked the dealer about using fuel oil a couple years back, he said go ahead and use it as since 2006 it’s been all the same in NY, just dyed. I just toss a couple oz powerservice in each 5 gallon can and toss on about a gallon per can of kerosene for hard winter months. All I do is siphon out of a spare fuel oil tank and pour through a Mr Funnel.
No difference at all I can see. Nothing but the faintest trace in prefilter and a tad few drops of water after working hard all summer. Starts runs fine always even we’ll below zero. Screens plugup exactly as diesel and regen at exactly the same 50 hours +- 10. I’d like to get some biodiesel or biofueloil to add in for lube but I’m not going to shag it 75 miles all the way from Burlington Vt and biofuel Oil around here just dried up a while back. They say it’s a great lubricating additive, the best by far in a test I saw published someplace.

Where r u located?

What dealer did u ask this?

Where do u get your fuel?

I asked our local deliverer browns fuel and they said there #2 is NOT ULSD. So I have to by mine at that store paying tax on it.

 

[David_Kb7uns]

Years ago marine and agriculture diesel was #3; thicker, higher Cetane, more carbon, more sulfur, and more power. With the advent of low sulfur oil I have not seen #3 anymore. We used it in large generators as we could get a little more KW from the same engine.

It is amazing what has been run in diesel engines. at one time they were adding coal dust to diesel fuel. Of course the big marine diesels (cargo ships) used #5 and #6. They are still around I think; turbines using DF2, 1, or Jet fuel are taking over though. They are basically asphalt and have to be heated to pump. All kinds of animal and vegetable oils have been used. I heard once (not confirmed) that adding water to diesel causes the combustion to break out the hydrogen and oxygen adding to the power factor and having a cooling effect. There was no formula on QTY with the rumor. It may have been an atomizing process which has been tried with gasoline engines with mixed reviews.

Ron

The steam locomotives in Portland used to burn bunker fuel, try and get that now, they usually end up with diesel and used motor oil, sometimes in a pinch straight diesel but it does not cut it when on a hill.

David

 

[Lem]

I real cold climate straight kerosene would be used.

I had to find out if it was ok to use Kerosene or why not. Kerosene has no lubrication to it and would be harmful to injector pumps etc. so that answered my question.
I had a neighbor that ran US from east to west and north to south and he said he would put 10 gal of gas in with a tank of diesel and did that for years and never had a problem in any way. No jell or anything......

 

[marchanna]

My old VW diesel stated right in the owners manual that you can mix up to 40% gasoline with the diesel fuel. But that was before ULSD.

 

[Billrog]

Lem so gas has lube but kerosene doesn't ?

 

[Peter 315]

E-ZOIL | Kerosene Blended Diesel Fuel Basics

 

[Billrog]

I've had only summer fuel in my bulk tank for many years now with an additive for winter for the reasons listed in Peter's post.