kerosene in lieu of diesel

[Skyco]

Uuuuhhh...we're talking about DIESEL or KEROSENE, neither of which is used in the RACE CARS...I think they are dipping the tanks on the TRUCKS in the parking lot

 

[EddieWalker]

This has been a very interesting thread. I'm going to buy 200 gallons of diesel in the next week or two, and will have to look into either mixing it, or just buying straight kerosene. In the past, I've bought five gallons of it at a time and used it as a cleaner that I added to my tanks, but I never thought about running it straight.

Since I'd be using it in my tractors, is there any known law that I'd be violating?

Thanks, it's worth looking into.

Eddie

 

[patrick_g]

My dads 97 dodge 3500 says in the owners manual that it can run straight kero and even a diesel/gas blend..
Brian

Brian can I get a chapter and verse (page number would be OK) citation on the above? I have a '97 3500 Dodge.

Thanks, I'd have never thought an informed source would recommend gasoline to be added to the fuel for a diesel.

I'd love to know what it says and where it says it.

Pat

 

[patrick_g]

That sounds like the same thing I posted earlier-

"I even read where someone was developing a spectrophotometer device that could detect the dye in the exhaust stream as you drove by...if that device works out then it will be very easy to nail people cheating."

Years ago, in THAT OTHER FUEL CRISIS, I was veep of engineering at a small electronics outfit. I designed and we manufactured and sold 400 units of a dual beam ultraviolet spectrophotometer which operated in the near UV spectrum at 340 nanometers wavelength.

I still can't say who bought them.

Pat

 

[Kendrick]

Since I'd be using it in my tractors, is there any known law that I'd be violating?
Eddie

clean emmisions act is what they would most likely use aginst you if they tried. since your tractor has wheels it is not allowed to polute as much as your home heating system its unlikely if you prove it is going to ag/offroad vehicles only they wont care a bit. or claim its generator fuel its one of those eye of the beholder, piss of some one in the city councel or police force. or if you got a busybody who pokes around the laws alot just to be a nucence you might get pestered. unless they are doing ranodm diper chekcs along the road

 

[LBrown59]

yes and no its like being caught with a counterfit 100$ bill. the pen proved the guilt now it is your burden to shift the blame using proof that you did not xerox a 100$ bill. it may not be the kindest outlook but with several million+ at stake no one notices the little guy getting steamrolled. most of the worst offenders tend to be other little guys much like the one in the right.

how many people know farmers that will fill with farm diesel when they have 5 propertys that are 20 miles appart. most will fill it and not worry till they get socked with a fine. they may not even think about the ramifications that those 100 miles they put on the road need to be payed for because they spent 500 miles that day total working the propertys.

Are you talking about off road in their tractors or off road in their licensed cars/trucks?

 

[LBrown59]

1*Kerosene is $3.84 and diesel is $4.49 or higher.
2* Anybody running kerosene?

1*I just got a gallon of kero $4.93 a gallon.
It was clear ; not dyed.
On road diesel right beside it is $4.69 per gallon.
2*So no reason for me to run the higher priced Kero in my tractor.

 

[LBrown59]

1*Kerosene is $3.84 .
2*diesel is $4.49 or higher.
3*Anybody running kerosene?

1*There is probably about 27 cents sales tax added to the $3.84 when you step up to the cash register to pay making the true price $4.11 per gallon.
2*One road diesel is $4.69 here.
3*Not me when the off road I got delivered the other day was only $4.02 a gallon.

Every body should be getting off road delivered,
or going and getting it them selves.

 

[LBrown59]

Kerosene is $3.84 and diesel is $4.49 or higher. Anybody running kerosene? Do you need to run a lube oil for the injectors. From other post it appears that low sulfur diesel has less lubricating properties than #2 fuel oil. Do you need to run lube oil with the new low sulfur diesel in older diesel engines?

If you're trying to save money on fuel why not just run off road in your tractor since it cost less than either of these?

 

[Diamondpilot]

If you're trying to save money on fuel why not just run off road in your tractor since it cost less than either of these?

LBrown I have been watching your threads for a long time. It seems you have tunnel vision to your part of the world. Here in Indiana Kero "clear" is still $3.99 a gallon. Off Road "red" is $4.49 a gallon and regular road diesel.is $4.99. You seem to do this all the time like when you swore all Kero was Red. I have never seen Red Kero but that does not means its not out there, it just means I have never seen it. Just like we use off road "red" diesel in lue of home heating oil. Home heating oil is not popular enough for our distributors to keep so they simply use off road. Also in my area the price at the pump is the price you pay period. They do not add tax when you go into pay. What does all this mean? Things are different in different parts of the country and world so don't make general statements about what you know. Your little corner of the world does things different than my little corner.

Chris