[AT] Diesel Fuel Question

[Stephen Offiler]

Thanks everyone, so far.  This has nothing to do with frugality.  It's like
$3.00 worth of fuel.  This is more about the only two choices I'm seeing at
the moment:  burn it; or store it for a relatively long time until I can
get around to disposing of it properly.  As for use as a degreaser, I use
mineral spirits for that.  Trailer decking, I don't own a trailer.  As for
brush burning, I don't.  I either shred brush or cart it to my local
transfer station who has a big brush-pile and chipper/composting operation.

On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 12:40 PM Jason <dejoodster at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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