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Rushmore X 03-02-2008 01:30 PM

different idea?
 
Is this worth considering... since ULSD is short on lubricants, what about adding a quart of cheap NEW oil to a full tank of diesel?

nlemerise 03-02-2008 01:50 PM

If lubrication is what you are looking for, biodiesel at 2% or greater has been found to offer the highest lubrication characteristics (I have the study if you are interested). That said, I would be more concerned about the oil forming deposits in and around the injectors...remember the cheap NEW motor oil you would be adding was never distilled and formulated to burn. Also, say the motor oil costs $1 per quart with a 40 gallon tank. It would then be 2.5 cents more expensive per gallon for your fuel mix and I bet where you are located you can find biodiesel as cheap or cheaper than straight-run diesel #2.

rbaker6336 03-02-2008 01:57 PM

two cycle oil would be better

Rushmore X 03-02-2008 02:02 PM


Originally Posted by rbaker6336
two cycle oil would be better

I do have a gallon of that from when I had my outboard. Biodiesel very scarce in West River South Dakota. I would like to find or form a CO-OP and make my own.

DR JOE 03-02-2008 02:18 PM


Originally Posted by nlemerise
If lubrication is what you are looking for, biodiesel at 2% or greater has been found to offer the highest lubrication characteristics (I have the study if you are interested). That said, I would be more concerned about the oil forming deposits in and around the injectors...remember the cheap NEW motor oil you would be adding was never distilled and formulated to burn. Also, say the motor oil costs $1 per quart with a 40 gallon tank. It would then be 2.5 cents more expensive per gallon for your fuel mix and I bet where you are located you can find biodiesel as cheap or cheaper than straight-run diesel #2.

Coul you please send that report to me??? My email is in my signature.

Thanks Doc.

nlemerise 03-02-2008 02:25 PM

Here are two studies on lubricity and diesel fuel:

Lubricity Study

and

Fatty-Acid Study


Enjoy!

Izzy351 03-02-2008 02:44 PM

There are guys out there that swear by the 2-cycle approach. I just get BD or put in DK...

Rushmore X 03-02-2008 02:47 PM


Originally Posted by Izzy351
There are guys out there that swear by the 2-cycle approach. I just get BD or put in DK...

Used DK and Howes. just looking for a cheaper way to go.

dryfly 03-02-2008 02:48 PM

If you use two cycle oil.Make sure you use the stuff that is listed on the study,Its ash less and leaves no deposits,Supposedly.I used it for a while.I was pretty thick stuff as you could imagine.When you drain the fuel bowl your fuel is a puke green color.I don't know if it related.But when I started to use this stuff,my truck started to knock a little.Injector knock think.Then I stopped using it recently.I went to the opti-lube stuff.After I used the Sea foam.I don't have any knock what so ever now.Again I don't know if they are related or its the sea foam that cleared everything out.But the 2-cycle oil just seems real gritty to me.I don't want to start another additive war.I know alot of people use the 2-cycle and are happy.Thats fine,just not for me>
My 2 cents.Maybe 3:)

rbaker6336 03-02-2008 02:55 PM

wonder what the 100 to 1 two cycle oil would do I use it 75 to 1 in my chain saw

Rushmore X 03-02-2008 02:59 PM


Originally Posted by dryfly
If you use two cycle oil.Make sure you use the stuff that is listed on the study,Its ash less and leaves no deposits,Supposedly.I used it for a while.I was pretty thick stuff as you could imagine.When you drain the fuel bowl your fuel is a puke green color.I don't know if it related.But when I started to use this stuff,my truck started to knock a little.Injector knock think.Then I stopped using it recently.I went to the opti-lube stuff.After I used the Sea foam.I don't have any knock what so ever now.Again I don't know if they are related or its the sea foam that cleared everything out.But the 2-cycle oil just seems real gritty to me.I don't want to start another additive war.I know alot of people use the 2-cycle and are happy.Thats fine,just not for me>
My 2 cents.Maybe 3:)

Seafoam seems to be one of the few products that actually works. Used it on both the boat and the Maverick. Did wonders on both. The 2 cycle oil that I have left over is Mercurcy, forget the name. Supposedly ashless.

dryfly 03-02-2008 03:34 PM

Yea I never noticed the seafoam before I heard about it on this board.A couple of weeks ago I see they carry it in wal-mart.So I used it.Like I said before It was knocking.I switched over to optilube.And filled the bowl with sefoam at the same time.So I dont know which one fixed the knock.But its gone.

Izzy351 03-02-2008 03:35 PM


Originally Posted by Trent Fliginger
///SNIP///
The 2 cycle oil that I have left over is Mercurcy, forget the name. Supposedly ashless.

Probably "Quicksilver" brand. One that nobody mentioned yet is Schaeffer's Diesel Treat. I have a can of that in my truck now waiting on my current tank of BD/dino to be run through. It did fairly well on the lubricity chart.

jwhitetail 03-02-2008 05:39 PM

Look up DIPETANE it's great stuff!!

Stroker 94 1/2 03-02-2008 08:55 PM

Has any body tried the Marvel Mystery oil. Some guy I met at the store was swearing buy it. But then again he had a dudge. I thought that there was a study on here.


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