Bio diesel b2601

[Pknpwr]

Merry Christmas everyone! Big snow storm heading in in the next few days so I will get to try my new 2601 and blower out. Salesman told me that I shouldn't run bio diesel in the tractor, I should run off road #1. I don't have a place to get off road #1 with in 20 miles. Have a truck stop close by but I thought that was a certain percentage bio. Any suggestions?

Thanks

 

[sheepfarmer]

The amount of biodiesel in commercially available diesel e.g. what's at your local service station varies in different states. But it ought not to cause you trouble. If your tractor has diesel put in it in the summer time "summer diesel" you should pick up a bottle of Power Service or similar brand of anti gel, and calculate the correct dose for your size tank. This is to keep the fuel from gelling in the cold. That is the point of telling you to get some No 1 diesel which doesn't gel as easily. Winter diesel in most cold parts of the country is already a mixture of No 1 and No2 diesels for that reason. Most of us add an anti gel compound just to make sure.

One of the hazards of biodiesel is that it tends to promote bacterial or algal growth in the fuel tank, more of a summer problem.

 

[SidecarFlip]

The amount of biodiesel in commercially available diesel e.g. what's at your local service station varies in different states. But it ought not to cause you trouble. If your tractor has diesel put in it in the summer time "summer diesel" you should pick up a bottle of Power Service or similar brand of anti gel, and calculate the correct dose for your size tank. This is to keep the fuel from gelling in the cold. That is the point of telling you to get some No 1 diesel which doesn't gel as easily. Winter diesel in most cold parts of the country is already a mixture of No 1 and No2 diesels for that reason. Most of us add an anti gel compound just to make sure.

One of the hazards of biodiesel is that it tends to promote bacterial or algal growth in the fuel tank, more of a summer problem.

Happened to me in the winter in my F350 diesel farm truck and cost me over a grand to fix it and I did it myself. I would never use that crap in anything again. Bio-Diesel, the red slime diesel.

 

[SidecarFlip]

Merry Christmas everyone! Big snow storm heading in in the next few days so I will get to try my new 2601 and blower out. Salesman told me that I shouldn't run bio diesel in the tractor, I should run off road #1. I don't have a place to get off road #1 with in 20 miles. Have a truck stop close by but I thought that was a certain percentage bio. Any suggestions?

Thanks

You can keep the snow..... lol

I bought the big 10 foot county plow a few weeks ago. Sitting in the side yard next to my shop to appease the snow gods so it don't snow here. Seems to be working fine, so far.