Oil & Fuel Fuel Type

   / Fuel Type #11  
I just purchased a Kubota BX 2660 with a 25.5HP Diesel engine (Model 1005)
1*Is it alright to use home heating #2 fuel oil instead of diesel/off road fuel?
2*I am hearing conflicting stories weather the fuels are interchangeable.
3*The tractor is parked in the garage near the 275g tank for the furnace. Sure would be easier than hauling cans.
1*In many if not most places they are one and the same.
and before to long there won't be any line between them anywhere.
2*Lots of old wives tales myths and die hard notions about this.
3*If I had 275 gallon of fuel settin in the yard the last thing I'd be doing is running down to the corner gas station after what I had already settin at home and paying 40 to 50 cents more per gallon for it.


L . B .
 
   / Fuel Type #12  
NO!!! You wouldn't burn diesel in your home heating unit would you. If you want a detailed explanation do a search on the oil,fuel,lub. forum.
Bill
Don't have any other choice in many parts of the country including here since there is only one fuel available.
 
   / Fuel Type #14  
Up here Off road Diesel and Home heating fuel
is the same thing, either #1 or #2 fuel. I get
all my fuel from one source and I've had my
tractor tank and home filled from the same
tank on the truck. Hope this helps.

Thumper
All the same is the only way that makes sense.
 
   / Fuel Type #15  
Heating oil and Off road diesel come out of the same truck and it only has 1 tank. You do the math....

jb
 
   / Fuel Type #16  
In your situation, Usta, I'd use it. I checked the specs many years ago when I worked for Exxon and had ready access to the specs. Think cetane # and pour point may be the only differences. Oil companies tended to put more cracked diesel into the fuel oil pool and to save the virgin distilled diesel for the diesel pool. Your distributor may buy the same stuff for both purposes, if they meet the specs for both. Likely they do. The cracked stuff may not have enough cetane #. I noticed the cetane # on highway diesel is guaranteed to be only 40 min. Would think that's pretty easy to meet. Check what your owner's manual says for your tractor's requirements and ask your fuel oil distributor what the specs are.

You can get the pour point by using a diesel fuel treatment. Only need about 0.15% of the stuff. That's 0.0015 times the gallonage you want to treat. Read the label. It'll be about that level. Most treatments also raise the cetane #, but the treatment may be more for this.

Ralph
 
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  • Thread Starter
#17  
Thank you all ! I will use the heating fuel.
I know furnace oil burners. They will fire on most anything you can throw at them but an engine is a bit more complicated and did not want to do damage.
Thanks again to all.
 
   / Fuel Type #18  
That's what I run in mine.
When I get a delivery for the house I have a 55 gal drum filled for the machines.
My Cousin takes a 55 gallon drum to his neighbor and the fuel guy fills the drum when he fills the neighbors tank.
The neighbors house is about 150 to 200 feet from my cousins house.
 
   / Fuel Type #20  
Up here Off road Diesel and Home heating fuel
is the same thing, either #1 or #2 fuel. I get
all my fuel from one source and I've had my
tractor tank and home filled from the same
tank on the truck. Hope this helps.

Thumper
Makes sense :
Why make 2 trips in 2 trucks when 1 trip in 1 truck will do the trick.
 

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