Red-dyed "reefer" diesel?
I mentioned this on one subject, but think this deserves its own topic. On one of the groups I'm on, I keep reading that it is known to be common practice for people at a truck stop to use red-dyed "...
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Jarlaxle wrote:Golden_HVAC wrote:
I know a guy who was using "Home Heating Oil" in his new 1978 Cadillac. After a couple of years, the engine broke down, and he was sad to have used the wrong fuel and messed up the 5.7L diesel. Sure he saved a few cents per gallon, and never paid road tax on that fuel either.
Fred.
It is the EXACT SAME STUFF. Heating oil is diesel fuel is heating oil! My last oil bill was for $1000 worth of "#2 ULS fuel oil". The tanker fills the trucks at work with "#2 ULS fuel oil". The only difference is the dye! For a few years, red fuel was nut ULS, but it all is now.
That's not quite true. Home heating oil contains a LOT more parrafin and asphaltenes than does diesel fuel.
You can run #2 in a furnace (hopefully with a lot of additives to save your pump and nozzle) but if you try to run HHO in a vehicle you'll have filters issues in short order.
Your oil dealers not doing you any favours either, HHO contains about 7% more BTU's per gallon than does diesel, so in effect, you're paying 7% (~$0.21 / gallon) more by burning diesel in your furnace instead of HHO.
