They are all BASICALLY the same - the difference is in the additives that are
put in, or not put in. Diesel has various things in it to keep it from gelling
at low temperatures, and to compensate for the lubrication lost when the sulfur
was taken out , for example. Also, anything not intended as motor fuel is taxed
differently (at least in the US), and is illegal to use in a motor vehicle,
even though it would work just fine theoretically - home heating oil for
example. Generally speaking, a diesel engine will run fine mechanically on a
wide variety of fuels, it's the injection system that is finicky. My folks used
to have a 79 MB 300D that came with an owner's manual that specified what to do
to run it on all kinds of interesting combinations of fuel!
Kevin Rhodes
Portland, Maine
Freddy the 74 Spitfire
Claudette the 85 Peugeot 505S Turbodiesel (who only gets the good stuff)
Babette the 92 Peugeot 505 SW8 (could park the Spit IN it)
At 05:06 PM 1/18/99 -0500, JIM_WALLACE@HP-Canada-om1.om.hp.com wrote:
>
>Dave typed:
>"...Since that day I have had a problem with kerosene heaters, since it was
>the lingering smell of diesel being burnt (smells tha same anyway)..."
>
>Can someone tell me if there's a difference between kerosene, diesel, lamp
>oil, and furnace oil? Lately I've seen some of these used (in text) as
>though they're interchangeable. A small diesel engine I was looking at had
>its roots in a kerosene engine, a diesel car will run on furnace oil, and
>lamps will run on kerosene (mine will, anyway).
>
>Note I have used the North American terminology.
>
>Thanks,
>Jim Wallace
>
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