[AT] Diesel Fuel Question

[Mike M]

Steve do you change your own oil? If so mix it in and bring it to a
recycle station. Around here most Tractor Supply and O'reilly parts
store take used oil. technically diesel is an oil true?

Mike M


On 11/21/2021 1:00 PM, Stephen Offiler wrote:
> 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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