Posted by RodInNS on July 12, 2008 at 05:08:20 from (24.224.246.156):
In Reply to: High Mileage posted by Allan In NE on July 11, 2008 at 18:16:19:
I noticed that mine started burning more and were a little lazy of the 'top' end when I first went to 'ULSD'. When the price got out of hand from that supplier I switched to another supplier and the lazy power went away but they still burn a pile of fuel. It's hard to tell if they're really burning more now because of ULSD because I probably push them harder now anyway, but I would say that the power is normal in the stuff I have now. We bought from Esso (Exxon) for 40 years until they got too proud of the stuff, and I don't know what was in those last tanks of fuel we bought from them that summer two years ago, but it's not like the fuel we're getting today. Mabey they just didn't have their process down quite tight enough. I don't know... The funny thing is, the supplier we buy from now buys direct out of Esso's bulk plant. Esso has the only bulk plant for the entire area and supplies all the fuel for the eastern half of this province to EVERY distributor... so I don't know why I'm getting better fuel from a small distributor, but I am. Makes me wonder what Esso was really selling me... I suspect that it was 'Furnace Lite' which is furnace oil that's cut with Kero for the little oil stoves. I know the big tractor ran hot on the pyro and had no power that summer, basically what you're describing now with light smoke and no power. I don't bother too much with fuel conditioner but I do use 'Howes' Leaner Meaner Power Cleaner sometimes. Haven't had one bit of trouble with the fuel systems on anything since the switch two years ago, and I haven't heard of anyone else locally having trouble either.
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