adding kerosene to diesel?

I have 4 gallons of kerosene (K1) left over from the winter.Can I add it to my 255 massy? If so,can I add it all at one time and include some motor oil with it, or should I use it for cleaning? Thanks for the infor. RON

Save it for next winter won't go bad

It works like #1 diesel, as said save it for next winter.

Adding it now won't hurt anything mostly, but will get less power, and it runs 'drier' so less lubricity, more heat in the engine, if you are working hard you'll get less value out of it in summer....

--->Paul

Sean,

I got a story about kerosene. At my night job we use a "ready" type heater to keep the pipes from freeze'n in one small building. The heater we had a few years ago was worn out twice over and have'n alot of problems. Our top notch maintenance man got on the internet and read on some kerosene supplier association type website that the stuff goes bad after a year. Now they buy a 330 gallon tote full every fall and my boss tells me every spring to dump what ever is left down the floor drain. A few years ago I bought a 100 gallon tank to go in the bed of my truck, wife asked what it was and I said if my boss ask tell her it's a floor drain. And for the record, I have never had a problem use'n it a year or two later.

Dave

(quoted from post at 10:29:09 07/01/11) I have 4 gallons of kerosene (K1) left over from the winter.Can I add it to my 255 massy? If so,can I add it all at one time and include some motor oil with it, or should I use it for cleaning? Thanks for the infor. RON

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Heck Kero isn't a whole lot lighter than diesel fuel. Dump it in the tank and be done with it. Mercedes Benz, and no I don't own one, used to tell the owners to dillute there fuel with 10% gasoline in the winter. Now if gasoline doesn't hurt an engine, then kero certainly won't. The shelf life of gasoline with ethanol is short termed , but not with fuels. I did a fuels survey for the military and actuallly checked samples from over 100 of the strategic reserve sites. It was diesel fuel that had been in storage for 10 plus years and we only found only a couple of sites with 15 year old fuels that had gone bad.

fuelsandlubestechnologies.org

"more heat in the engine"

WHERE did you dream THAT one up???

Kerosene is over 4 bucks a gallon here.Save it for kerosene lamps and lanterns.When the power flops I light my kerosene lamp.You can buy off road diesel for less money.Kerosene will keep for ever.

it is used for thinning the wax in jelled up diesel in winter. keep it for winter, as you want all the lubricity in injection pump in hot summer weather.

When I was in the army, the manual on the pot bellied diesel fired heater/furnace said to never ever mix gasoline with diesel to thin it in the winter. Our bosses said the same thing. Everything said to use denatured alcohol. That beind said, I and about twenty other guys got stuck up on some ski mountain in Germany in a GP Medium tent for weeks, and had to dig the snow out to erect it. It was cold and windy up there. We didn't have denatured alcohol for the heater, but we had 5 gallon cans filled with gas for the Jeeps. We mixed gasoline with the diesel, which worked ok for a short time while it was mixed, but we had to constantly stir the mixture because the mixture would separate and the heavier diesel would settle to the bottom which was where the pickup was, and would clog it up like jelly. Well, one night we had a supply mixed up and burning, and we all hit the sack in our sleeping bags, fell asleep, and the diesel thickened as it separated and didn't burn so well, but we were all asleep. When it got to the much thinner gasoline, it raced into the heater, overflowed, and WOOSH!!! the fire was on. Burned down the whole tent with all of our gear in it. The Battalion and Brigade commanders were so angry at us for that, that they left us up there for days sleeping in the cabs of our vehicles. I learned from that, that cutting diesel with gasoline is not a good idea.

Someone here that worked in a refinery posted some time back that diesel and kerosene were the same. Being that I have plenty of $$$ tied up in my equipment, I don't know that I would trust anyone's word like that if I didn't know them, but I have added kerosene into the diesel on my tractors a few times to get rid of it and never had a problem.

Mark

There are fewer BTU's in kerosene than diesel. It's not good for the injection pump tp run straight #1 diesel. Kerosene is lighter still...

Save the Kerosene for your heater or lamps. It's been many years since kerosene was only $4/gal here.

If the US military powers all gas turbines and reciprocating diesel engines with straight JP8,JP5 or Jet A-1. All of which are very similar to hardware store kerosene.
It stands to reason your tractor can burn a kerosene/diesel mixture without problems.

Good deal was 5 bucks a gallon here last winter in my area, also very few carry it have to travel to get it.That floor drain is going to need super fund clean up money when that property sells.

Yes you can add it ti your fuel. It is common up here in the colder areas to mix diesel and kerosene 70/30 or 60/40 for winter. If you run you tractor in cold weather you mau want to use it then - helps prevent fuel from gelling/waxing by lowering cloud point of fuel .