Fuel issue or something else?

[rScotty]

Diesel most certainly will light with a lighter. Besides that gas is yellow and diesel is blue or dyed red. No lighter required.

Yellow? Blue? RED? .... How strange..... Perhaps it varies with the region. Around here, gasoline can be almost as clear as water. Diesel is also clear, but with an more amber hue. There is enough variation in the clarity of either one that I can never count on vision alone to decide which is which.

Please be very careful when lighting either one with a lighter. I confess to having done it myself to test what it is that I have in a 5 gallon jug. But think it through.

What I do is to take a paper towel and twist it into a long wick. Then I wet about half an inch of the end with the suspected fuel. Let it dry for few seconds while walking away from the container to an open area. Then I hold it well away from my face horizontally out at arm's length and try to light the wetted end of the twist. Gasoline lights with a Whoosh! and burns rapidly with a clear flame. Diesel lights more slowly and burns with smoky flame.

Hopefully someone else has a better test than mine. If so, I'd sure like to learn it.
rScotty

 

[Fromjim]

Thanks for the fine words, you can't go wrong with the Almighty helping you, and all you have to do is ask Him.

God bless all

Jim

 

[Thomas]

I start w/draining fuel all the way to fuel filter,new fuel filter and fuel maybe find another place to purchase fuel.

 

[Jerry/MT]

If you using winter blended diesel( which should be the norm for MA) and the temperature were just below freezing, ice could be the problem either at the tank outlet strainer, in the lines, or on the fuel filter.
If you have summer diesel both wax and ice are a possibility.

 

[ruffdog]

Bad diesel in NC....
Another Triad Gas Station Accused Of Selling Faulty Fuel | WFMYNEWS2.com

 

[ruffdog]

Gasoline in diesel tank....
Casey's fuel error: Total cost of damage remains unknown

 

[MikeMainekubota]

If it's gas, you may be shopping for new lips, eyebrows, etc........ahahaaaaa

Lol....Right

 

[jbrumberg]

One should use #1 fuel in temperatures below 40F. It reads to me like gelled fuel. Cold hydraulics may be compounding the engine load. I was operating my TC29DA yesterday in 0F - 4F temperatures removing "Grayson's" gift of snow (9"). For a lot of reasons (and a sad story) I have had a recent fuel/water challenge. In warmer weather I use PowerService White Bottle year round as recommended. Recently I have been using PowerService 911 as recommended. I suspected my last diesel fill up was #2 (source of challenge). Prior to this storm I refilled the jerrycan with 4.5G of #1 plus a double load of the PowerService additives. The tractor took almost the full 4.5G's. I used the engine block heater and a fuel/hydraulic filter heater and preheated both for 3 hours. Tractor started perfectly and then as the old fuel mix/fuel filter gelling gave me the same "fits" as yours. After 10 - 15 minutes of lugging and rough idling everything went operational. I checked the remaining fuel in the jerrycan this PM, the temperature was 0F/1F, and the fuel was liquid.

I generally go to the high volume stations where I see school buses and commercial vehicles getting their diesel fuel. My primary fuel source will be adding more kerosene with her next diesel fuel delivery. The stations around here "doctor" the fuel mix supplied from the distributor.

I started using a "Mister Filter" again as well.