#2 Heating Oil

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Interesting info. Will be good to know for future reference. Thanks!
 
   / #2 Heating Oil #12  
For my 20 yo tractor that doesn't have high pressure rail (or any emission crap), I would use it. If I had a newer tractor, I would not risk it...

I burned 40 gallons of old heating oil from my neighbor, tractor never skipped a beat.
I also have a L4760 with emissions (PMF) and 200 hours of steady heating oil hasn't affected it at all. The heating oil is mostly all ultra low sulfur now. Same product as diesel.
 
   / #2 Heating Oil #13  
As long as you have a good filter, you will be ok. The newer high pressure fuel systems need really fine filters. If I remember correctly, We switched to 5 micron filters because of the tight tolerances in the fuel systems after some “dirt “ related failures.
 
   / #2 Heating Oil #14  
Ultra low sulphur diesel became a requirement in 2006 or so. I think off-road applications got an extra year or 2. If there is a chance it predates that I wouldn't run it in a modern emissions tractor. No worries running it in an older machine. If it was clean & uncontaminated & I knew it was 2010ish or newer I'd run it in my Kubota with a DPF.
 

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