Posted by redforlife on May 05, 2022 at 08:34:37 from (174.210.137.39):
In Reply to: Fuel for my JD H posted by Nicholas C on May 05, 2022 at 04:00:50:
Your tractor was designed to be started on gas, and the engine warmed up to near hot, before switching to kero. Burning the kero in a cold engine, did not work. So, that is what the whole (gas start) thing is about. Truth is, it doesn't matter at all, if you run on gas all the time, and never switch to kero.
Kero at one time was considerably cheaper than gas. Kind of like the difference between diesel and gas prices that we are seeing now. Your tractor was built during the time of cheaper kerosen. But trying to burn it now, is POINTLESS. No one has bothered about burning kero in these dual fuel burners probably since the 60s. About the same time, they quit the option of dual fuel burning on new tractors.
Everyone just dumps gas in main tank, and run all the time on gas. Maybe use the little gas starting tank, as a reserve tank, when they run out of gas in the big tank. Worse than that even. If they ever replaced a part that was different than a gas burner and required to burn kero, they rarely put the kero part back on. Just replaced it with a part for gas only. Several parts are different on a kero burner versus a gas. I would be very surprised if your kero burner has all the right parts to burn kero, and those same such parts are still functional (meaning, your tractor likely not function right today, even if you tried to burn kero).
If your tractor today, has a gas only carb, manifolds, or whatever else that is different than the kero burner was from factory, then your tractor today will do a poor job of burning kero, or no longer even have that capability. In order for it to have that capability today, it would have to be as it was from factory. No gas only parts put on for replacements over the years.
I just use 87 octane. No matter if it has ethanol in it or not. I agree with other posts about ethanol free being better. I personally don't pay any attention to that. I'm not going to drive all over the world to try to find some ethanol free gas. I do only dump in what I think I might use for that day. I never keep large amounts in the fuel tanks. If they are parked for awhile, and have a few gallons in them, I usually siphon the tank dry, and dump gas into something else that I am using. Not filling tank up, or not keeping it full, and transferring gas over to what I am using, keeps fresh gas in just about everything I have. It's easier to dump fresh gas into something that's empty, than trying to keep the gas fresh in everything just sitting around with full tanks.
Your tractor does NOT need 93 octane. There was nothing about kerosene that was high octane. Your tractor certainly does not require high octane. Burn it if you wish. Just wasting dollars in my opinion. Extra performance level of 93 octane on a JD H, will go completely un-noticed!!!!
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