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There are 2 kinds of diesel fuel. Number 1, or winter; and number 2, or summer fuel. You probably were trying number 2, which is, um, thicker for lack of a better word. Nuber 1 fuel oil & diesel are about the same thing, diesel might have some engine additives but around here in farm country with my farmer-owned coop oil company, they only have number one or number two, doesn't matter if you call it heating fuel or engine diesel. There is more energy in a gallon of #2, it is cheaper, and it lubricates & cools a diesel engine better, but below 25 degrees or so it starts gelling up, so we in Minnesota at least blend, or run straight #1 in engines in cold months. For a heater, use what the label says. My house furnace can use either 1 or 2, since the tank is in the basement so it doesn't get sub-zero & gell up. Torpedo heaters can often use kero or #1, but #1 will smell worse. Wicks will only work with kero that I know of. Kero is thin.
#1 is thicker, diesel or oil.
#2 is thickest, diesel or oil.
Diesel works in a heater or motor, fuel oil may be missing some additives for a motor. --->Paul
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