[AT] Diesel Fuel Question

[Jason]

Your 5 to 1 idea sounds fine as long as it's older non-electronically
controlled injection system.

IH 1066 sure. Case IH MX 285 with CAPS fuel system, never in a million
years.

Jason

On Sun, Nov 21, 2021, 9:31 AM Stephen Offiler <soffiler at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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