I have done extensive reasearch on the kero distillate fuels and have used Kero in My 10-20 and my F-12. Distillate it seems is nothing more than a poorly refined kerosene. The oil companys found they could sell a cheap tractor fuel that wouldn"t have to be as clean burning as kerosene which was used in lamps, stoves etc and had wicks that would gum up with poor grade kero. Tractors don"t use wicks so clean, crystal clear fuel was not nessesary. They could get more gallons of distillate from a barrel of oil than they could get kerosene from a barrel. Oil dillution was a simillar problem for both fuels. A few years back when gas shot up in the late 90s I used kero in my tractors since it was summer and the local station had not yet filled the kero tank with new higher priced kero. It worked ok, BUT with the additional cost of adding new oil everyday, I figured I really didn"t save anything. Oh well , It was fun to try it out and fun to hear people say, "what are you burning in that thing?" I put my F-12 on a dyno and ran both kero and gas and tested it one at a time with the settings for each done. It made the same HP on both, but I could lean the carb out on kero so it would use less fuel per hour. I knew a guy whos Dad ran pure straight from the well Oklahoma crude oil in a 10-20 back in the 30s. He said it worked good, but gunked up the spark plugs by noon so he would clean them up when he stopped for lunch and in the evening when he was done.
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