[AT] Diesel Fuel Question

[Stephen Offiler]

Hi Mike - good idea!  Yes I do all my own oil changes and dump it in the
recycling tank at our local transfer station.  Seems pretty straightforward
to make it disappear this way.

SO

On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 1:19 PM Mike M <meulenms at gmx.com> wrote:

> 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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