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My last few 5 gallon cans (I only fill to 4 so it doesn’t sit around) have been B20. There’s one station in town that sells it and they’re way less than everywhere else. The tractor’s been quite happy with it, it doesn’t seem to smoke as much on start up, other than that I don’t notice any difference. I bought the last fuel when the weather was nice, and was relieved when after plugging in the engine heater for 20 minutes it fired right up at 0 and ran just fine all day plowing our street and transporting buckets of firewood. That was the only test I had left and one I was a little concerned about. Anyone else using this stuff have any input?
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I have not tested this on the tractors…..
But I own a 94 Cummins 12 valve. I will run my truck on used oil, ATF, hydraulic oil, diesel mixed with gas, kerosene, any type of fuel! It runs great. EGT’s get a little hotter with some of the fuels. And will plug a fuel filter every now and again. Just shows that diesels will pretty much run on anything, as long as they fuel system can handle it.
Over in China, they run the Jinma tractors (and I’m sure many others) on peanut oil. The “diesel” they have is very interesting, there is usually a fair amount in the tanks of our tractors when they get to our shop. It smells very strange, feels very dry and is a different yellowish color.
Tyler Nystrom
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It’s been a year or two back a couple of trucking companies went to that with great success, but same as you their biggest concern was winter temps. If memory serves me right I believe they did have a few issues in extreme low temps and ended up going a mix diesel/bio-diesel in extreme temps.
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