This is an HONEST thread, for a change

[JDgreen]

Yes, it is. I can't find my owners manual. What octane of diesel fuel am I supposed to use in my John Deere?

 

[reynoldston]

Yes, it is. I can't find my owners manual. What octane of diesel fuel am I supposed to use in my John Deere?

Don't know very much about diesel and didn't know that diesel fuel came in different octanes?? Any time I have seen it at a fuel station they either have fuel oil or kerosene. I have heard that it comes in different colors for different uses for road taxes reasons. I have also heard it comes in differant grades which is numbered? You have to know a lot more then me on this.

 

[JDgreen]

Don't know very much about diesel and didn't know that diesel fuel came in different octanes?? Any time I have seen it at a fuel station they either have fuel oil or kerosene. I have heard that it comes in different colors for different uses for road taxes reasons. I have also heard it comes in differant grades which is numbered? You have to know a lot more then me on this.

Yeah, the majority sold is Number 2 diesel, and it has no octane rating which I knew. I am just trying to get other LMF members to help me get to Y2K today....:laughing:

 

[Black Bart]

Yeah, the majority sold is Number 2 diesel, and it has no octane rating which I knew. I am just trying to get other LMF members to help me get to Y2K today....:laughing:

Diesel is nor rated by octane it is rated by cetane.
The people selling it could not even tell you what it is.
Just buy some diesel and drive on it don't matter all brands are nearly the same anyway.

 

[Flabioso]

If you purchase regular diesel it's set up for todays trucks and cars the stuff is as dry as a popcorn fart, you need to add some kind of lubricant a little oil or transmission fluid should do the trick or purchase some Lucas, the off road fuel has a red dye and it's high sulfur so you don't need to ad anything...

 

[reynoldston]

If you purchase regular diesel it's set up for todays trucks and cars the stuff is as dry as a popcorn fart, you need to add some kind of lubricant a little oil or transmission fluid should do the trick or purchase some Lucas, the off road fuel has a red dye and it's high sulfur so you don't need to ad anything...

Now where does home heating oil fit in here?

 

[JDgreen]

Now where does home heating oil fit in here?

You don't pay road tax on home heating oil....I used fuel oil for heating from '88-93, then converted to natural gas. Gave somebody my old furnace and oil tank that had about 50 gallons left in it, because back then heating oil was 70 cents a gallon. The good old days.