Testing for “off road” or “red dye” diesel?
Having engine work done on Dodge Cummins for possible fuel restriction or lack of fuel problem. The garage has had to do several “bucket” tests. Probably 15 up to 25 gallons of “red dye” diesel has ...
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TooManyTents wrote:mlts22 wrote:
I am pretty sure the reason the fuel was dyed is that it was obviously cheaper, since it didn't have a road tax paid for it.
That's exactly right. The only way to tell if you paid state road diesel tax on the fuel is by lack of dye (taxed) or red dye (no tax).
Op here...
Actually "cheaper", not the case. It was a case of convenience. The big water pump mounted on a cracked trailer frame has been parked a longer time than my pick up. My pick up is about 8 feet away in one garage bay from this monster of a pump in another bay. They just ran a vinyl hose from pump over to my pick up. This pump thing is massive. The discharge spot is 12 inches in diameter. Its engine on this thing looks bigger than my Cummins 5.9 Its used for pumping water out one of Yuma's water canals into farm land.
In talking with the owner of garage...Most farm equipment is ran off red die diesel and the fine for using it on the road is so much, its not worth the chance to use it in street vehicles. On the flip side, I wonder about all the farm equipment that is on roads and using red die. I pass many tractors on the road when driving my 7 miles to town. I doubt they paid road tax. But the farmers work hard here, nobody going to hassle them IMO. But I'm still wondering how they get away with stacking big hay bales on the shoulder of the road. 3 months here and I've have become accustomed to seeing a farm labor bus go by. And behind the bus is a hitched up trailer of port a potties. Don't see that very often around Seattle.
