#1 Diesel vs blended

[Cummins12V98]

Home Heating #2 and Diesel Fuel #2 are not the same, thou they are similar and often interchangeable.

OK, lets put it this way I have been told I could use it. This was when I drove my 98 12V.

 

[rebar]

OK, lets put it this way I have been told I could use it. This was when I drove my 98 12V.

Buddy of mine said he filled up with #1 during the summer by mistake and the engine ran hot. What I'm now concerned about is the 10% bio diesel and the fact mine is a garage queen, but that's another topic..

 

[GAmes]

What I'm now concerned about is the 10% bio diesel and the fact mine is a garage queen, but that's another topic..

What is your concern? Everytime I go to OR I seek out the B20 stations. Because the gov't subsidizes the bio industry B20 is 30 to 50 cents a gallon less than the B3 that OR has mandated to be the minimum in all diesel sold there. Buying B20 is a way to get some of my tax money back. Mileage suffers very slightly, but unless you keep meticulous records you won't notice it.

 

[AH64ID]

I always saw slightly better mileage on my 05 with B20, but my main concern with it was winter use. It doesn't seem to work as well with winterizing additives as #2 and I gelled up twice with it at temps that would not have been an issue with #2 treated with 1/2 the treatment.

 

[GAmes]

I rarely go to OR in the winter, but the use of any additives is rarer still. I'll add ant-gel to fuel that I buy in TX before heading north but I never add any to fuel I buy in the north unless I'm going farther north i.e. Canada.

 

[SnoKing]

I thought #1 was home heating oil with red dye???

When I worked at a Texaco Distributorship 1976-79, home heating oil and road diesel came out of the same storage tank. My diesel boat got red diesel at the marine filling stations. I recall that Canadian marine station had clear diesel for many years. I do not know if that changed.

 

[JR]

I am guessing by some of the responses and links above it varies by state. The company that I hung iron for for many years also owned a commercial fueling station. Not long after 15ppm sulfur limits came into play for heating oil in Ohio they dug up and replaced their tanks with new ones. One less tank got buried - the heating oil tank was no more. From that point on the only 2 stations over on that island were kerosene and off road fuel/heating oil. I used that pump for both many times as long as they were open.

 

[Cummins12V98]

My best towing mileage is Hwy 99 between Bakersfield and Sacramento, CA and the fuel along there is labeled as up to B20.

 

[rebar]

What is your concern?

This.

 

[GAmes]

This.

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I replaced my fuel module earlier this year. It was clean. I have never encountered a filter that looked like that either.