#2 diesel fuel starts gelling at 20 degrees, and often stops flowing through a filter at 5-10 degrees. Water or a dirty filter will make this worse.
#1 diesel will flow through a filter to minus 60 or so.
Kerosene is similar to #1, also similar to jet fuel.
Any of those three can be blended with #2 diesel to make it work. The more #1 you add, the colder it can handle. Often 50-50 is good for most anything here in the lower 48. You can use 10% and it will help quite a bit - depends on how cold 'cold' is where you are.
You can just mix the additive (Howes, Power Service, Peridyne, others - sorry for my spelling) with #2 diesel and have the same result. Read the lable, you can probably get protection down to minus 25 or so plus it deals with the water & lubricity & centane help. I just bought 2 jugs of additive on sale for $10 each, treat 300 gallons of #2 each.
I also run a 25% or so blend of #1 in my most used tractor over the cold months.
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