Engine/Transmission (1998.5 - 2002) Is Heating Oil #1 or #2?????

[hammersley]

Is Heating Oil #1 or #2 or is it some other formulation?????

 

[RustyJC]

THIS site may help. Click on D for diesel fuel and H for heating oil. Check also under F for fuel oil.



Rusty

 

[Hemiless]

all the same.

Heating oil can be either #1 or #2 just like diesel in fact in some states were heating oil isn't dyed the bulk distributor pulls them from the same tank. Diesel has a road tax on it were heating oil doesn't hence the price difference. But other then that they are very much the same product. Hope this helps.

 

[GKinney]

yes you can burn heating oil in your rig... ... but beware it is also much dirtier than diesel fuel is. Could be some plugged injectors,scored pistons/cyclinders or maybe pump failure down the road.

 

[Hemiless]

I would tend to disagree

Gkinney



I would tend to disagree because if you have ever seen the burner nozzle from a high effecincy oil boiler you would see they are quite fine and have a porous stone type filter built into them and they rarely plug unless some kid drops dirt in the tank because he likes the cool sound it makes. :{ Not to mention the same truck that fills up the service station fills up the heating oil tanks around town. We use to run heating oil in our trucks for years before we got rid of the 1000 gallon tank at home. It may be diffferent in your neck of the woods but I couldn't see the refinerys wasting the time or money to refine crude to two different diesel purity levels when they could just use one product to meet several different needs.

 

[Ron Bissett]

Oo. Its like others stated , could be red not taxed or clear in some states ,as to dirty not so . If dirty diesel or heating oil stands for some time gravity will pull the dirt down to the bottom of the tank,thats why we that use a aux tank cut the pick up tube on a slant and not let it extend all the way to the bottom of the tank. P. S if they dip could be the most expressive trip ,up to you. Ron Bissett in Metro Louisville KY.

 

[GKinney]

my mistake

Sorry by the word "dirty". I was referring to things like sulfur content, cetane rating,,,and lubricity things like that. I know the "soil" content is totally dependent on the storage of the fuel and user practices.

 

[hammersley]

I have no way of using heating oil - but we were arguing at coffee and I wasn't sure if I was right that they were the same... ...

 

[ak_fleming]

It's all the same: We use dyed diesel fuel as heating oil here, red dye is # 1 blue dye is # 2, and undyed is road taxed diesel.

 

[Cummins Pilot]

When I buy fuel the only difference between the 2 is the price. Same truck and same nozzle.