Red Dye Diesel

Oiltech · Dec 16, 2013

Do any of you run this in your tractors or farm diesel engines?

Is there any compatibility issue with the newer diesel engines?

Is there any issue with leaving fuel sitting in the tank?

rd_macgregor · Dec 16, 2013

I have been using fuel oil for the last couple of years...so far with no issues (including during the winter months). Regular pump diesel is nearly $.40/l more than fuel oil and I resent paying highway taxes to fuel an off-road machine.

Red Horse · Dec 16, 2013

All off road diesel by law is dyed red. If you are using "clear" diesel, it means it is "on road" and you are therefore paying allthe taxes on it. Get caught with "Red" in a highway diesel and you are in deep $$$$$$$ as that is tax avoidance

Biggest issue with "old" fuel is in cold areas where you don't want tohave "summer" diesel in your tank in the winter has it won't have ay cold flow improvers in it.

aczlan · Dec 16, 2013

We run it in our tractors with no problems. At this point, any off-road diesel should be ULSD, so the only difference will be the red dye mixed in.

Aaron Z

RedNeckRacin · Dec 16, 2013

aczlan said:
We run it in our tractors with no problems. At this point, any off-road diesel should be ULSD, so the only difference will be the red dye mixed in.

Aaron Z

x2, we get it in bulk and have not had an issues. No tier 4 engines though.

aczlan · Dec 16, 2013

RedNeckRacin said:
x2, we get it in bulk and have not had an issues. No tier 4 engines though.

Tier 4 engines are designed to run on ULSD, so it shouldn't be a problem.

Aaron Z

Bluegill2 · Dec 16, 2013

I only run the red off road, no problems here...

ovrszd · Dec 16, 2013

I run a JD Tier IV road grader. We use ULSD (<5ppm sulfur) dyed fuel. I run the same fuel in my tractor that isn't Tier IV. In Winter I blend the grader fuel 50/50 No.1/No. 2. In my tractor I use No. 2 with Power Service additive. Concern is fuel gelling. As for old fuel, you can add Stabil if it's gonna sit a long time. Anything less than a couple months I wouldn't worry about.

RalphVa · Dec 16, 2013

ONLY time I bought some red diesel, I had some wax dropout problems. Think it was due to a couple very rare 10 F nights we had here then. Haven't had such cold nights with clear diesel in use. I took it back to Exxon and exchanged it, paying a bit more of course.

I like to have the flexibility of being able to take diesel from my 60 gallon tank on the bottom of my generator for the car if I need to. I normally pump out of this big tank for my tractor and then refill the generator tank about once/yr.

When I got the red diesel, I only got a couple 5 gallon containers of it.

Ralph