I've always had good luck with POWER SERVICE keeping diesels running in cold weather. I carried a gallon jug in my semi-tractor and operated on the "GLUG-system", dumped a GLUG in the fuel tank before filling it every day. In my 7.3L PSD I used it per the label instructions, maybe a touch more. My pickup had a fuel heater in the filter canister that I sorta relied on till I found out it only pulled about 3 amps at 12V, 40 watts, Pulled the heater out and strictly used POWER SERVICE in the white bottle. If you want to use your old summer fuel, buy a quart of POWER SERVICE 911, red bottle I think, split it between the 6 cans of fuel equally. I SINCERELY hope you don't need your R till spring, like maybe MEMORIAL DAY. They are the only Deere diesel with only a w cylinder pony motor, the pony is too gutless to spin the big diesel over more than a revolution or two before it pulls down and almost stalls. The day I discovered Dad's Deere Failure, His R in the shed about 2-3 days before Christmas 1963, We went thru 3 tanks of gasoline and never did get the diesel running. Neighbor's 730-D with V-4 pony had the big diesel motoring over and started before it was half wound up to full rpm. Also, don't use the PTO on the R any more than you have to, chronic weak gearbox, Township road commissioner bought Dad's R, knocked the PTO out 3 times in 3 years running a pto rototiller chewing up scarified oiled roads. Third time the tractor was traded of a used Oliver 770 diesel I was still running chewing up roads 10 years later with no problem. ALSO, R engines was only Deere 2 cyl diesel without a center main bearing. If lugged down in a hard pull they can break the crankshaft. My suggestion if you really want a big awkward clumbsey standard tractor, get rid of the R and get an 80 or 820/830.
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