[AT] Canola to diesel

Ralph Goff alfg at sasktel.net
Sun Feb 4 11:07:53 PST 2007



----- Original Message -----
From: Phil M. Vorwerk <pvorwerk at newulmtel.net>
To: 'Antique tractor email discussion group' <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2007 11:53 AM
Subject: RE: [AT] Canola to diesel


> My uncle ran diesel Suburbans and a diesel Cadillac (1980 Seville) for his
> funeral home in the 80's and 90's.  He always had great luck with them; he
> said the secret was to add ATF to the fuel in winter.  I believe it was to
> keep the fuel from gelling.

I've heard of this idea of adding atf to diesel fuel but don't know anybody
that actually does it here. I can't see it helping the flow properties of
fuel in this cold weather. ATF is thicker than diesel, more likely to plug
the filters in my opinion.
I had a friend with one of the first GM diesels in a full size Silverado
back in 1980 and 30 mpg was quite common for him. Drove it winter and
summer. Of course that was back in the days of high sulfur diesel fuel.

Ralph in Sask.
http://lgoff.sasktelwebsite.net/




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