Re: Can I make Diesel fuel out of Kerosene and Motor Oil?

Posted by Robert in W. Mi on September 16, 2002 at 17:37:02 from (208.32.169.1):

In Reply to: Can I make Diesel fuel out of Kerosene and Motor Oil? posted by Duane(Pa) on September 16, 2002 at 13:34:28:

I'm surprised at the answers below. I guess in their little world this is an "experiement", of some kind or "vooo doo"???
I've run, and seen run a lot of straight kerosene in diesels. It happens all the time in Alaska where i lived for 25 years! Some put motor oil with it, some put 2 cycle oil with it, but most added a quart or two of ATF per 50 gallons of kero. Mixing #1, #2, and kero is fairly common in all kinds of ratio's too. In the manual of my Deutz tractor, there's a chart telling you how much "gasoline" to add to #2 diesel to keep it from jelling in the winter. (i did this a time or two in my Chevy with 6.2 diesel, and with nearly 200,000 miles on it the engine has NEVER been opened) For winter use, i use to mix #2 and #1 50/50, or even 60% #1, 40% #2, and i ran many hundreds of gallons of it over the years.
Haveing said all that, i agree running a lot of kero or #1 will shorten the life of the injection pump, that's why the oil was added.
I've NEVER seen or heard of anyone haveing any problems adding the oils i mentioned above to kero, or #1, and there was thousands of gallons of it put through engines every winter.
Cummins now has a system option available, that draws the used oil out of the oil pan, and mixes it with the fuel to burn it. You have a small tank you keep full of "new" motor oil to replenish what's used, so motor oil can't be too bad for a diesel engine!
One last thing, the reason kero was run by some people up there, is, it was FREE fuel!! Some jobs had it around in bulk, and let their help have it. In the "old days", crews would dump left over fuel on the ground when they were done with jobs!!!! If you wanted to haul it home, have at it!! Lots of people did!! Also, it won't jell in the cold!
Robert

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• Re: Re: Can I make Diesel fuel out of Kerosene and Motor Oil? Salmoneye 04:42:19 09/17/02 (1)
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