Re: all fuel?

Posted by Jon H on June 26, 2005 at 12:02:26 from (69.26.18.39):

In Reply to: all fuel? posted by New Farmer on June 26, 2005 at 07:36:41:

Both people are more or less correct. When running distilate fuel in the main tank,the small tank is for starting and warming up the fuel system before switching to the heavy fuel.
After distilate tractor fuel was no longer used,the little tank was used for a reserve fuel supply to get you home if you ran the big tank out of gas.
Unless you have a special reason for running a heavy distilate type fuel,the disadvantages far outweigh any advantages.
To run a distilate type fuel ypu need to load the tractor heavy enough to get it hot and burning most of the fuel. Even then a lot of un burned distilate got down past the rings and contaminated the engine oil. I seem to remember that most of those all fuel tractors wanted you to replace a portion of the crankcase oil with new oil every day to keep the oil dilution from getting bad enough to hurt the engine.

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