Back in the 70's I had an oil furnace, we had a blizzard and actual temps of -25 F. I stayed up all night trying to keep my furnace going. I could hear when the oil pump was starving for oil. I removed the oil filter, which was outside the house, it was full of what appeared to be ice crystals that would turn back to a liquid once warmed up. I have no idea why ice crystals only formed in the oil filter and not in the tank.
I finally piled snow up around filter, put a 100w light bulb below filter and wrapped aluminum foil around filter bulb.
You could say that began my dislike for stinky diesel. I used #1 fuel, but I'm sure it's possible some #2 blended may have been blended in.
Around the same time a person I worked with bought a VW diesel. They went out of town, North to Wisconson, Their fuel was freezing up too. They read the owners manual to blend a gallon of gasoline with 10 gallons of diesel. I never read the manual, but thought it might be risky to do that.
At the same time, my dad worked on oil furnaces. He got called to a place where the chimney of the furnace was blown off. Person had blended gasoline with diesel. Not sure when diesel additives were invented yet. When I was a kid either my dad was too cheap to buy them or they didn't exist. We just parked our diesels in winter instead of block heaters and fuel additives.
Block heaters seem to be a necessity in winter. Why doesn't someone invent a fuel filter heater of some kind. Electric or circulate engine coolant around filter to keep it warm?
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