Home heating oil, kerosene, and diesel fuel, are almost identical. Only chemical differnce is how clean it is, and the adatives. There is a road tax of diesel fuel witch make it illegal to burn home heating oil in you vehicle.
Eric 86-VW4x4 vw4x4@fyi.net 86-SS Syncro Pittsburgh, PA USA 1936-Chrysler 92-Jetta GWC www.fyi.net/~vw4x4/vw4x4.htm On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, David Brodbeck wrote: > On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, John Rodgers wrote: > > > I'm not sure but what used motor oil, with something like kerosene > > added, then filtered to remove solids wouldn't work just fine. Prol'ly > > be a real smoker though. > > I knew someone who got stuck with the remnants of a tank of home heating > oil after switching to a gas furnace at his house. He burned it all in > his diesel VW, adding fuel treatment to each tankful. It was pretty > sooty, though. > > > David Brodbeck, N8SRE > '82 Volkswagen Diesel Westfalia > '86 Volvo 240DL wagon > |
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