Good subject; there are many ideas about what to add to your diesel fuel since they reduced the lubricating qualities of it. I will throw my experiences of what I found. The only diesel I own is a Dodge truck with a Cummins engine. It has 260,000 miles on it with the original injectors and pump. When I bought it used back in 2003 with 195,000 miles on it then, if you would let it sit for more than a week, one of the injectors would leak down and when started, it would run on five cylinders with a big cloud of smoke coming out of the exhaust pipe until the injector would prime up and run on 6 cylinders. I bought all types of additives to try to remedy the problem with no success. I thought I had to either live with it, or change the injector. Then 2006 came around with the fuel change, I started adding a quart of transmission fluid on fuel fill up, recommended by a Cummins mechanic, but my injector problem was still there. Later in time I bought a 16 oz bottle of Marvel Mystery oil, which has been around from the beginning of time, started using it on every fuel fill. I did this to add to the fuel for the lack of lubricant and my injector problem went away. Killed to birds with one stone. This brings me to a remembrance that when I was working a Standard oil gas station back in the 60's, a salesman for Marvel Mystery oil would drive in with his 1953 Mercury with a flathead V8. He said it had over a 100,000 miles on it and used a Marvel Mystery oil injector which was mounted below the carburetor flange. He said the engine never had a wrench on it other than tune up's and oil changes. We all though, He's a salesman, He is just saying that. Well I got back into the Marvel Mystery oil, using it with air tools. I throw it into the gas I use in my 1940 Farmall H along with some Sta-bil. It won't do anything about water and I don't think it will do anything about jelling, but I started my diesel up last winter when it was below zero, with a summer fill of fuel and never saw a problem. Take it for what it is worth, Jerry
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