Re: Deisel is deisel, or is it?

Posted by john in la on May 10, 2005 at 03:48:39 from (68.222.33.10):

In Reply to: Deisel is deisel, or is it? posted by hope farmer on May 09, 2005 at 19:47:46:

It really depends on where you live and what supplier you have.

To date they make 2 kinds of diesel for common use. Low sulfur which can be used on or off road and High sulfur which can only be used off road.

The problem is most jobbers (fuel suppliers) shop price rather than get there product from the same place every time. Some manufactures only stock one kind because of tank cost but some have both.

For instance if you lived by me and the jobber bought his diesel from Shell today he would be getting dyed low sulfur. Then tomorrow Exxon may have a better price so he gets it there. He would be getting High sulfur this time and mixing it with the Low sulfur in his tanks he bought yesterday.
As you can see it gets very complicated to make sure what kind you are getting.

I feel it is better to use High sulfur in older engines but it is better to use Low sulfur dyed in newer engines. If you have a newer tractor you may want to ask for and insist on low sulfur but as stated above you may be just told what you want to hear so you will buy what he has.

Wait to next year and this is really going to get complicated because they are coming out with a new ultra low sulfur diesel then.

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• Re: Deisel is deisel, or is it? T_Bone 21:52:45 05/10/05 (0)
• Re: Deisel is deisel, or is it? txgrn 06:02:50 05/10/05 (0)

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