[AT] Diesel Fuel Question

[Jim Becker]

Do you have or know somebody nearby with a torpedo heater?  I don’t think I would hesitate to use it in one of them.

Jim Becker

From: Stephen Offiler 
Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2021 12:00 PM
To: Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group 
Subject: Re: [AT] Diesel Fuel Question

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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