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10/30/07, 08:36 PM
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Uses for 1 year old diesel fuel?
I bought two used U-haul trucks to use for living quarters and for a storage building. Both of them have an almost full tank, but it's about one year old now.
Is there any sort of lantern, or stove that I can use it in? Or is it safe to use for cooking, or would it poison me or cause me to have cancer...or kill my animals...?
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10/30/07, 08:42 PM
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There should be no problem using it as regular diesel fuel.
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10/30/07, 08:49 PM
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Umm, I'm not driving the trucks, they're stationary, no tags, no insurance (at least for now.) I don't have any diesel...anything, right now. Do you think I could sell it to someone?
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10/30/07, 09:15 PM
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Heating oil. There is only like a 2,000 BTU per gallon difference.
Just not in a Kero heater.
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10/30/07, 09:58 PM
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If you have one of those all-fuel stoves, you could use it in that. Coleman stoves and lanterns are right out, though.
But you could use it in oil lamps, kero heaters if the temps are above 40 (or is it 30?) degrees, and heating oil like ChoochCharlie said.
Otherwise, you could give it or sell it to someone who has a diesel powered something-or-other. Diesel ages much better than gasoline.
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10/30/07, 10:55 PM
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Yup, I'd not be afraid to use it as diesel fuel in my tractors or as fuel oil in my house furnace. It keeps pretty well. It is not kerosene as some have mentioned, you would need a heater that uses heating oil....
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10/30/07, 11:36 PM
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Tiki torches work real well on diesel fuel. If they make a little smoke, that will just keep the mosquitoes away. I've used diesel #2 for kerosene lanterns before but it is a bit smokier and you have to clean the chimneys more frequently.
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10/30/07, 11:54 PM
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You could probably find a fuel oil stove that would burn it for a few bucks, I think I have a couple around I gave $5 for.
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10/31/07, 12:07 AM
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Sell it?
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10/31/07, 03:30 PM
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I think someone would give you $2 a gallon for it for a tractor or something. Just don't put it in a new diesel, they require ultra-low sulfur, which your fuel may not be.
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10/31/07, 03:36 PM
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I wouldn't be running year-old deisel in a tractor or anything else with a fuel filter on it, unless you want to be paying for a lot of new filters. The best thing you can do with it is get a bunch of 5-gallon hydraulic oil buckets, siphon it into them, and cart it to a recycling facility. You can use it in small amounts as a fire starter, etc., but it would take forever to use all that up in those applications.
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10/31/07, 07:11 PM
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Diesel fuel is not as highly refined as gasoline, and therefore keeps much better. It does not deteriorate at nearly the rate of untreated gasoline.
One year old diesel should be perfectly good. It can be used for any of the suggestions given, but would also be fine for engine fuel as well.
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10/31/07, 07:16 PM
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I keep two 500 gallon tanks of diesel for my equipment,lasts me about two years before refilling. Never had a problem with it going bad or replacing filters. Diesel can grow algae though when it gets very old or is water contaminated.
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10/31/07, 07:19 PM
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Year old diesel will work fine in engine or oi burner, unless it's contaminated with water. At that point bacteria will grow and you have a potental mess.
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11/02/07, 10:52 AM
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Originally Posted by tyusclan
Diesel fuel is not as highly refined as gasoline, and therefore keeps much better. It does not deteriorate at nearly the rate of untreated gasoline.
One year old diesel should be perfectly good. It can be used for any of the suggestions given, but would also be fine for engine fuel as well.
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Wanna see the black fuel filter in my garage-find Nissan, from year-old diesel? It's not the fuel, it's what may grow in it during that time. If you pull it all out and refilter it, you might be OK.
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11/02/07, 11:16 AM
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Originally Posted by Jim S.
Wanna see the black fuel filter in my garage-find Nissan, from year-old diesel? It's not the fuel, it's what may grow in it during that time. If you pull it all out and refilter it, you might be OK.
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LOL NOPE IT AINT THE FUEL ITS THE NISSAN.
I store LOTS of fuel at my place almost always more than a year old , Ya know what sometimes with a bit of water too I just dont use the bottom inch in any barrel .
I move trucks for a living some from very large VERY LONGTERM storage facilities, often these trucks have been there for 2,3,4 or 5 years and we drive them outa there on the fuel thats been in them all that time.
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11/02/07, 11:22 AM
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I would sell it off to somebody as farm diesel.....the only problem you will have with age is algae grows in it and then clogs the fuel filter up.....you can filter it into a drum and sell it.
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11/02/07, 11:39 AM
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Algae won't grow without sunlight.
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11/02/07, 11:45 AM
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If it was me, I'd use it to light brush piles or my burn barrell. There is to much "IF's" in year old diesel that has been sitting stagnant. It will grow algae without sunlight. Depending on what part of the country you are in, it could be useless as a fuel. I dunno, but I wouldn't burn it in anything of mine except the burn barrel. Just me, though.
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11/02/07, 12:06 PM
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Algae won't grow without sunlight.
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Yeah it will....I have had to drop and clean out more than one mixer fuel tank because they sat unused too long....lots of algae even though they are dark inside.
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