<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Steve</div><div>I'm going to post a warning here, not for you, I'm sure that you are well aware of the risk... Many others may not be as aware...</div><div>When looking for fuel leaks on diesel engines NEVER ! ever look with your fingers.The line pressure is so high that a tiny almost invisible leak can cut flesh even through gloves.</div><div>I can't begin to tell you how many guys I have seen check for leaks by fingering around the injectors, lines and fittings... If you need to check, use something like a strip of cardboard.</div><div>BTW, as cheap as I am, I wouldn't use that fuel in an engine. I do keep some similar materials around for rough washdowns.</div><div>Now, I do use filtered old gasoline, usually filtered through a couple of old pieces of bedsheet. I only use that in old tractors, never in an injected vehicle.</div><div><br></div><div>I've had better years than 2021. I would like to see it get better or go away...</div><div><br></div><div>.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 1:01 PM Stephen Offiler <<a href="mailto:soffiler@gmail.com">soffiler@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 12:40 PM Jason <<a href="mailto:dejoodster@gmail.com" target="_blank">dejoodster@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Your 5 to 1 idea sounds fine as long as it's older non-electronically controlled injection system. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">IH 1066 sure. Case IH MX 285 with CAPS fuel system, never in a million years.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jason</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Nov 21, 2021, 9:31 AM Stephen Offiler <<a href="mailto:soffiler@gmail.com" target="_blank">soffiler@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>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)<br></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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. <br></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Steve O.<br></div></div>
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