Old Diesel Fuel

[Deere Dude]

DO NOT put it in a modern deisel. Its high sulfer fuel and will screw up a modern engine emessions stuff.

I would however assuming it was filtered and had no water run it in my 30+ year old yanmar tractor or use it in the farm house oil burner furnace.

Good point. I have a 2010 JD diesel. Maybe I better nix that idea. I have a 2002 diesel truck and I'll check with another forum on that one.

Edit: Whoops I can't do that. Home fuel can't go in a truck. It seems like the sulfur would be the hang up now. I don't want to screw something up for a couple hundred bucks.

 

[Redneck in training]

Good point. I have a 2010 JD diesel. Maybe I better nix that idea. I have a 2002 diesel truck and I'll check with another forum on that one.

Edit: Whoops I can't do that. Home fuel can't go in a truck. It seems like the sulfur would be the hang up now. I don't want to screw something up for a couple hundred bucks.

Is it red? If it isn't dyed you can burn it in the truck. There is no way to tell.

 

[SPYDERLK]

I personally wouldn't risk it in my tractor or UTV, but there may be another alternative. I switched from oil heat to a heat pump at my farmhouse a few years ago. I contacted my oil company and they pumped out the tank and paid me the going price for the fuel, less a pickup fee. I'm hazy on the fee, but I think it was $50.

Steve

Its a clue that they knew it was good.
larry

 

[SPYDERLK]

Thanks for the input,

I think what I might do is tilt the tank like 90Cummins suggested and take a sample to make sure there isn't any water in it. Put a new filter on it, check it again and then use maybe a gallon or two in the tank of the tractor at every fill. Hopefully it would be diluted with good stuff. Possibly I might use a little conditioner of some sort. Maybe that would help.

Water is on the bottom. It doesnt spoil the fuel above.
larry

 

[Deere Dude]

Is it red? If it isn't dyed you can burn it in the truck. There is no way to tell.

No, it's not red. The other poster had a point, that if a fuel company pumped it out they would know it's good.

 

[Ductape]

If it were me I'd use it. I'd pump it out with my water block filter and mix it with whatever fuel i already had on hand.

 

[smstonypoint]

No, it's not red. The other poster had a point, that if a fuel company pumped it out they would know it's good.

My fuel tank had been filled relatively recently when I called my oil company about pumping out the oil in the tank. I was at the farm when the tank was pumped. I didn't observe the truck driver test the oil, but I assume that the oil truck was fitted with some sort of filter to remove contaminants.

Steve

 

[Industrial Toys]

I have a thousand litres of old Diesel, that I should get around to using. It will actually be better for the pumps then the new low sulpher stuff. I wouldn't use it in anything that has a particulate filter on the exhaust. But for older engines or even newer ones under 25 HP that didn't have to comply with ultra strict emissions requirments, no problem.