Lots of people wondering about distillate. When I was a kid on the farm we used #1 fuel oil (home heating oil)in our John Deere "A" & "D". Warm it up on gasoline then switch it over to fuel oil. Not diesel but #1 home heating oil. Ran great. My brother still likes to fill up with it when he goes to a plow day. I have used it in my AR also. still works as good as it ever did. We hooked the D to a dyno and there was no difference in power using gasoline or fuel oil.
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rlp in Co.
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I always wondered which would have the most power. Distilate has more heat energy. It should have made more power. Did you set the carburetor any different then when on gas? Did you use water injection?
Back in the 70's I had a farmall regular that I mixed 10 gallon of kerosene with 5 gals of gasoline and the old girl liked it. The Farmall would pull strong burning it. Had a Chevron gas station in town that still sold kerosene. I just took a 15 gallon drum to town and filled it up. I ran my model a ford car on kerosene once just to see if it would. It did but didn't stay hot enough on the intake and put out lots of white smoke.
When I was a lad "distillate" was the term used for the liquid hydrocarbon byproduct of natural gas production. It was also called "casinghead gas" or "drip" or "midnight Ethyl". All the gas well sites had tanks that collected this liquid, which was hauled away by tank trucks. Some people who were short of cash to buy gasoline used to go out to a well site and drain off a bucket or two and pour it into their old beaters. It didn't run very well, but it beat walking, I guess. Guys who valued their ride wouldn't touch it. I don't know how well it performed in tractors.
Apparently the stuff had very little value, because the valves at the well site were rarely locked.
Apparently the stuff had very little value, because the valves at the well site were rarely locked.
timcasbolt
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Around here #1 is clear kerosene and #2 is home heating oil.
Years ago back in the mid 60s I bought a 1937 JD D and at that time the old timers that had used those tractors told me that when they could no longer get distillate they mixed 50-50 kerosene and gasoline. You have to get engine warmed up before switching from gas to the 50-50 mixture and have a set of working shutters to regulate the temperature of engine. You also have to have the water injection valve in working order to stop knock that you will get running this mixture. When you go to shut down engine switch back to gasoline long enough so that there is none of the 50-50 mixture left in carb carb or you will have trouble starting the next time. The exhaust from burning this mixture stinks and it will smoke .
Butch(OH)
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Years ago I had to learn about home brew distillate for our A-C A as it will barely run on gasoline when hot due to the low grade fuel manifolding. We vary our gasoline/ kerosene mixture a bit depending on weather and loading. but somewhere between 50/50 as you say and 70K/30G. The exhaust smell reminds me of being around an airport.
rlp in Co.
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Thanks, now I know that it makes the same power.
buickanddeere
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Most power in that engine , most power per bit or most power per gallon ?
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