[AT] Diesel Fuel Question

[Spencer Yost]

One word of warning:  Depends on the used oil station.  The oil recycling “nazi”(yes, thats my name for him now) manning our station will refuse to take it if he catches a whiff of anything fuel-like.  Probably more of a problem with gas than diesel.  YMMV (excuse the pun).

Spencer 

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> On Nov 21, 2021, at 6:40 PM, Stephen Offiler <soffiler at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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
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>> 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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