Posted by Old Harv on December 05, 2013 at 05:30:15 from (184.151.114.249):
In Reply to: Diesel gelling posted by Tom vertiz on December 04, 2013 at 20:29:32:
I live in Northern Ontario and my fuel has gelled many times. Number one fuel is regular diesel fuel, and red off road fuel is simply regular fuel with red dye added so the government knows that the road tax has not been paid on that fuel. Number 2 fuel is furnace oil, which is thinner and does not gel up in the cold. Number 2 fuel can also have red dye put in it. Here the fuel companies mix number 1 and 2 fuel together in the fall to try to keep the fuel from gelling up in peoples equipment. About now they switch to pure furnace oil until about March sometime. We NEVER buy diesel from a station down south in the winter because we know that it will gel up and kill our engine when we get home. Fixing it involves towing the vehicle to a warm shop, leaving it in for two days, changing the fuel filters to get the jello out, and praying. I have had my own tractors gel for different reasons. 1, not being on the ball and ordering fuel at the beginning of winter so I was still running summer fuel. 2, the fuel company being too cheap to mix enough furnace oil in the fuel. In this case, my tractor would run fine at 20 degrees, die at 0 degrees, and fire up and run fine again at 20 degrees. The fuel company got well chewed out for that one. I have never heard of furnace oil causing any engine or fuel pump damage, but since they have removed the sulfer from both fuels, the lack of lubricity has destroyed fuel pumps, therefore in my opinion a fuel additive is needed to restore lubricity summer and winter. One of the best I understand is 2 cycle oil.
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