What is a all fuel?

[Michael Price]

Next week Im going to look at the JD A. The guy said its a all fuel. Does that mean it has a diesel engine like the all fuel military trucks?

 

[Kurt_JDB]

Michael,

The allfuel tractors were designed to start on gasoline, and then switch to a cheaper heavy fuel. Similar to kerosene. They will run on gas.

Not a diesel engine.

Kurt

 

[Michael Price]

So they are always a spark ignition engine?

 

[Kurt_JDB]

yes, spark ignition.

Kurt

 

[alabamafrog]

See if this page from the JD A operators manual can help explain;

 

[Gun guru]

I think it means that it will run on Gasoline, kerosene and moonshine.

 

[alabamafrog]

(quoted from post at 14:38:20 01/27/10) I think it means that it will run on Gasoline, kerosene and moonshine.

That is one of the reasons I decided to start working on my old tractors, when the economy collapses then I could use the tractors to make grain to make moonshine to use to run the tractors, the cycle of life continues. Now I just got to get to work building that still!

 

[730d se]

An interesting note about "supply & demand". The lower grade fuels had low volume sales and were burned off in some cases just to help dispose of them.
The tractor companies begin building engines that would burn this cheaper fuel once you had the engine hot by running on gasoline. Tractor fuels were about half the price of gasoline for obvious reasons: lower grade and fewer refinery steps. When sales picked up from this increased usage, so goes the price jumping up. It got to the point that it was about as cheap to just run all the time on gasoline as it was to keep two fuels, etc.
Those wonderful gas companies always have an excuse to keep the prices jacked up, no matter if there is any fact in their excuses or not.
This same thing is what has happened to deisel. They saw a chnace to jack it up after Hurricane Katrina and they just cannot seem to get it back down lower than gasoline like it always was.

 

[buickanddeere]

Will burn just about anything that will pour and burn. If the engine temp is hot enough.

 

[Andy P]

Here in Canada till the mid 60's we used to be able to get what they called distillate more popular than kerosene , when this was longer available fuel dealers would then bring us a blend of half gas half dieselfuel this blend would slowly separate so everyone was forced to adopt using staight gas. Just didn't run engine so hot when pulling hard. Many switched manifolds but we didn't , it was alright maybe not quite as much power but hard to tell.