Tractor fuel is the common name for Distillate. This fuel is a low octane byproduct of creating gasoline in the beginning of spark ignition engines, and could be ordered on IH tractors into the late 50s. Refineries were far from what we have today, and the cracking process could not economically refine this component into fuel oil/diesel, or regular gasoline. The result was the availability of distillate for about 1/2 the price of regular gasoline. It required a compression ratio of about 4:1 to limit spark knock, and was so reluctant to burn that tractors needed to be started on pure gasoline to heat them enough to vaporize the tractor fuel. even when running they needed to have restricted radiator shutters and heated intake manifolds to keep operating. The fuel was also prone to condensing on the cylinder walls and draining/blowing into the oil pan. After a day's work it was likely to have added a quart of fuel to the oil. SOP was to open a petcock in the oil pan and drain the oil down to that level (which was about a quart low) then add a quart of new oil to the full mark. There are no equivalent liquids available today. Making some up by mixing gasoline with Kerosene or fuel oil is not recommended. Now the diesel fuel costs more than gasoline because distillation and catalytic cracking are more efficient making gasoline, and the removal of Sulphur in diesel is also a contributing cost for diesel. Jim
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