Diesel

aardvaak

I have about 25 litres of 28 sec Heating Oil drained from my old house heating tank.


Is it ok to put into a tractor diesel tank which runs on red diesel?


Will the tractor run?


Will it do any damage?


I have heard somewhere that you can put and run in house heating red diesel on a farm

SHAFT

The colour of your diesel is neither here nor there, clear, red or green will all run a diesel engine. You need to be giving information on the engine for the correct answer.

caprikid1

I have done a bit of research and my conclusion was that you should not use 100% heating oil.


If you put in 1/2 to 1/3 Heating oil to diesel on an old tractor it should be fine. They are not the same that's why you need to balance it out.


Obviously with being red diesel already there should not be any duty concerns around heating oil (Currently 49p per ltr).

aardvaak

caprikid1 wrote: »

I have done a bit of research and my conclusion was that you should not use 100% heating oil.


If you put in 1/2 to 1/3 Heating oil to diesel on an old tractor it should be fine. They are not the same that's why you need to balance it out.


Obviously with being red diesel already there should not be any duty concerns around heating oil (Currently 49p per ltr).

I am not bothered about the duty part which is not a problem - the tractor lives wholly on a farm - there is none - there is already about 10-12 galls red diesel already in the tractor

nickcc

Two types of heating oil, one is kerosene and the other is gas oil. Using kero 28 sec will dilute your red diesel in the tractor. Kero does not have the same lubricating properties as Diesel and could damage your tractors injection system. On saying that, with older types of injection systems, with either in line or distributer type fuel pumps, small volumes of kero mixed with diesel shouldn't present any problem.

Begsey

Will it do any damage? Don't know, but it may cause issues.
When I used to use alternative fuels, I'd filter to 5 microns.
I'd be more worried about the cleanliness of the fuel from an old household heating oil tank.

loskie

yes and no

worried_jim

How old is the tractor? I've ran cars on cooking oil previously and it was all down to the fuel pump, Bosch and Denso love it, Lucas will seize on day one.

aardvaak

worried_jim wrote: »

How old is the tractor? I've ran cars on cooking oil previously and it was all down to the fuel pump, Bosch and Denso love it, Lucas will seize on day one.

40 years...............

worried_jim

aardvaak wrote: »

40 years...............

Check the fuel pump and as it isn't a common rail diesel crack on!

Ganga

The old minimec injection pumps would run on just about anything,they also had a seperate lubricating chamber so the fuel quality was not so great an issue.