ok who has run dyed fuel

[Stomp]

Yes I very well know that it is against the law and I would have to tell somene on a polygraph if I do eventually decide to become a Law Enforcement officer, but I am sure that I am not the only one who has run a little dyed fuel.



I havent run any dyed fuel for quite sometime now, but when I did I almost allways noticed an increase in milage and it is a whole lot cheaper.



Stomp

 

[bmoeller]

Only enough to get me to the truck stop. Have 105gal. tank in bed for farm equipment. I only did this twice on my Ford. Haven't done it with the Dodge. The fuel gauge was crap, and ran out a few miles away from the truck stop. With having others driiving my truck during harvest, I lost track of the mileage on the odo.

 

[bgilbert]

Yes, I have run dyed fuel, the regular #2 with red dye a tank full, and one tank full of the premium high sulfur purple stuff, cant remember its exact name, but I'm told its high dollar. Also tore the tag off my bed mattress, ran with scissors in my hand, and I imagine alot of other things that we're told not to do. . Bill

 

[Stomp]

Yeah I guess I should have put that on the poll/ only used to it to go to the station, but I dont think I can change it unless someone knows how.

 

[MMiller]

I don't do it unless I have too. It does run a bunch better on the red stuff though. The ruby red, high sulfur that my dad gets for the farm is much better stuff!



Michael

 

[sparks57]

I'm surprized that the majority of people have!



I personally have not run dyed fuel, but I wouldn't hesitate in an emergency. I just don't want to run the chance of being busted... it's a BIG fine.



I am curiouse to know what it does for the engine though... I think I started a thread about this a LOOOOOONG time ago, but I've forgoten now...

 

[Mad Bomber]

Originally posted by CB_Parker

I'm surprized that the majority of people have!



I personally have not run dyed fuel, but I wouldn't hesitate in an emergency. I just don't want to run the chance of being busted... it's a BIG fine.



I am curiouse to know what it does for the engine though... I think I started a thread about this a LOOOOOONG time ago, but I've forgoten now...

Hi Chis I'm glad you and your bride were able to make the bomb party and was able to meet you. The red dye does have more sulfer in it for lube. The VP 44's needs more since the injection pump does not use moter oil to lube it like yours does.

 

[Mad Bomber]

Stomp, if you were to have a accident and the fuel spilled out they would fine you BIG TIME. I have also heard that they can dip your tank and check. Now let me ask you a question do you fell lucky?If so you'll need it.

 

[steveinaz]

dyed fuel

i hate to burst everybodys bubble on this, but dyed fuel is no different than clear other than it has dye in it . i deliver fuel for heavy equipment and onroad trucks . when you order offroad fuel it starts off clear then i add dye to it before i leave the tank farm. it all comes out of the same hold. there is a difference between winter fuel and summer fuel.

 

[sparks57]

I beg to differ, it is called "high sulfur off road" fuel.



What would be the problem with running two tanks, one with dyed and one with regular? The one thing I have heard is that the red staines the fuel filter and the cops check that.



Can you, lets say... run the red offroad and then switch to regular when you get onroad? I'm talking LEGALLY, would that be ok?

 

[cguthrie]

I've never heard of anyone getting pulled over and getting dipped in a pickup. I've only heard of that in semi's. But i guess there's probably someone out there that has had that happen to them



Chris

 

[Cooker]

Originally posted by CB_Parker

I beg to differ, it is called "high sulfur off road" fuel.

I have to agree with steveinaz. Altough our tanks at the shop may state "high sulfur off road" the co-ops around here are now selling the same stuff only adding the dye.



For a while they were dropping green fuel and charging us the "off road" price. It must have been a new guy

 

[sparks57]

Oh, ok... I was just told it was different by a fuel supplier and a farmer friend.



But you'd be surprized as to what some people think but don't really know!

 

[RoryTek]

Well if diesel keeps going the way it has been (right now 1. 99) red looks good to me

 

[DKarvwnaris]

Neighbor's teenage kid got busted last year, cost him a $1500 fine, first offense. DOT was pulling people over on the way into town one day. They were performing registration/ insurance inspects.

He was driving a VW diesel Golf TDI. If they want to check, they'll check.

I was in a hurry one day to get home at a fuel station and pumped the tank full of Red Dye. Clerk asked me if I needed a dye slip with my reciept. I didn' t even realize what I did. He called a # and they gave him an incident # to attach to the receipt in case I got stopped. I had two weeks to use up the tank or dyed #2 and was informed I had pay the highway taxed fuel rate. I thought about running dyed diesel from the farm for the next few tanks, but my luck, I'd get busted somehow. Truck ran no different. Filter still had dye stains in it when I changed it a month later. That was after three tanks nearly I ran down to "E" each time.

 

[Cooker]

Originally posted by CB_Parker

Oh, ok... I was just told it was different by a fuel supplier and a farmer friend.



But you'd be surprized as to what some people think but don't really know!

It may not be that way everywhere. At least in a few places that appears to be the case.

 

[cguthrie]

I was paying 1. 69 a gallon in Oregon before i had to come back to Korea.



Chris

 

[BobSacco]

Down here in SC, the fuel police will sometimes hang out at the cattle sales (auctions), knowing there will be a lot of diesel pick-ups in attendance, many of which also use off-road fuel at their farms. A friend of mine in a 1st gen Cummins dually got "dipped", but honest fellow that he is, came up clean.

 

[steveinaz]

CB_Parker

high sulpher fuel was phased out a few years back. at least in the southwest it was.

D. O. T. will sit near a road construction site and pull over employees that are going home in their diesels pickups to dip the tank.

 

[MMiller]

My dad gets 5000 gallons of diesel a year in one shot(for farm use). The last shipment he got, he was still able to get the high sulfer ruby red. That stuff is indeed better fuel. You have to call around, and ask for the high sulfer anymore.



Out here they will check trucks at livestock/machinery actions. They even do it without owner consent. They will check when the owner away from his truck, then wait for him to come out to "talk about the situation". It doesn't happen all the time, usually people talk too much, and then the DOT finds out.



Michael