disillate fuel

[point3dave]

HI I have a 1950 A with two tanks. I know the small is for gas and the large for "distillate, or power fuel" What is distillate or power fuel? Thank You. Dave K

 

[johns48jdb]

A low grade fuel. My buddy mixes diesel fuel and gas to run in his b. He says he likes the smell of it. Straight gas will be fine. Some want agree with me, but i changed the nozzle in my all fuel b to a gas nozzle and it made a difference in how it runs.

 

[alabamafrog]

Cheap by-product of the way they used to make gas way back when. From what I heard they changed the way they refined gas which done away with the cheap distillate back before I was born. My great grandpa ran it in my old A for years. Some folks now try and make an approximation of it from kerosene and diesel fuel.

 

[730d se]

As they said, it was a chaper version of gasoline, not taken to as many steps of distillation as gas, therefore cheaper to make and sell.
It required a hotter engine to burn, that is why you started on good gas (samll tank) to get the engine hot, then you would switch to "all-fuel".
This stuff was similar to diesel in that it was very cheap. At one time diesel was discarded at times, that is until the oil companies saw the usage increase, then the price of diesel rode the space shuttle.
Diesel today is higher priced than gas. "They" say it is because "they" have to add stuff to it. I say it is merely supply and demand, which today actually means greed.

 

[buickanddeere]

Today it's Jet A-1 from your local airport.

 

[Tx Jim]

(quoted from post at 23:39:04 01/03/10) Today it's Jet A-1 from your local airport.

Is Jet A-1 exactly the same as distillate or just the closest replacement? How do Jet A-1 and K1 compare? Thanks,Jim

 

[Farmer Jack]

Just because you have two tanks doesn't make it an all fuel. Deere made Gas tractors with two tanks in 1950 to have more fuel capacity. Check your carburetor and and manifold style to really determine if yours is a gas or all-fuel tractor. I have a 1950 gas A with the two tanks. If you run out of the large tank, switch to the small one to head to the fuel barrel...

 

[BerlinKen]

Number 1 heating oil works very well in an all fuel tractor. We used it in our 1936 "D" and 1944 "A" all the time when I was a kid on the farm. Just warm the tractor up on gasoline, like John Deere recommends. We still use it when we work the tractors.

 

[F-I-T]

I remember "power Fuel" as a distillate blended with a bit of gasoline. I thought that it was marketed by Sohio back in my youth in Ohio, so it might have carried other brand names depending on the localityt. Farm Bureau might have even handled it in some areas.

If any of you guys remember the little Heatrola fuel oil stoves used in the 1940-50's houses to heat single rooms back when I was young, you'll remember the aroma of "drip fuel". That was distillate. Just about as close to #1 Fuel Oil is today, but had some odd heavy tars and such, and was sort of yellow, with maybe a tringe of green color. Pretty high in sulfur. It was smelly, sooty, but as a drip fuel for brooder house stoves and such it wasn't too bad. Octane/cetane/whatever-ane rating today, you'll get as close with K-1 Kerosene for lightability and smell. Jet-A is better filtered Kerosene, and has some flow agents and anti gel compounds added so it doesn't get gummy at -60*F, but it will work, too. IMHO

 

[buickanddeere]

Never tried K1. What are it's specs?

 

[Tx Jim]

buickanddeere
I'm probably wrong but I thought K1 was an ID for kerosene.

 

[Tx Jim]

buickanddeere
I'm probably wrong but I thought K1 was an ID for kerosene.

 

[F-I-T]

K1 is what they call grade #1 Kerosene in the states. Might not go by that designation in Canada. K1 goes through one extra catalytic crack to reduce sooting. That's why it is more clear than the cheaper stove fuel kerosene that they used to sell. We used to say good for stoves versus good for lamps. Jet-A1 goes through a few more steps to remove more loose carbons.