[AT] Diesel Fuel Question

[Stephen Offiler]

I recently discovered I have a diesel fuel leak, and while trying to find
time for diagnosis and repair, I started parking the tractor over a big
drip-pan.  The pan collected roughly a gallon over the course of ... well,
I can't say precisely but around a week or two.  That fuel dripped thru the
normal grime found on engines, so it's pretty dirty.  (And I since
discovered that turning off the fuel petcock effectively controls the leak)

I have filtered it multiple times.  First thru paper towel; clogged three
or four getting that done.  Next thru coffee filters, again, it took 4 to
finish the job.  Finally thru a Covid mask (regular surgical type not
N95).  That one never clogged and captured very minimal additional material.

What I have now is therefore free of particulate big enough to catch in
coffee filters and surgical masks.  It remains discolored; if fresh diesel
was the color of Budweiser, this stuff looks like a nice brown ale.

What says the list?  Burn it?  Will the tractor's fuel filter take out
everything big enough to cause problems with the pump or injectors?  (Seems
like that should be a design criteria for that filter, no?)  If I do burn
it, I will dilute it about 5:1 with fresh fuel.

If I don't burn it, it will eventually be carted away to our local
Hazardous Waste Day held annually about 25 miles from here - I manage to
remember and get over there only about once every 3-5 years.

Steve O.
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