Can a diesel car run on Heating Oil?

[pingu393]

I wouldn't use it on anything that isn't an old engine (no electronic controls). There was a guy at work who used to tip his used engine oil straight into the fuel tank. It ran, but Greta would have burst a blood vessel at the smoke

[Evoluzione]

It will run on used engine oil, but it will also wear it out prematurely so will need rebuilding/replacing every so often.
Used engine oil is a toxic soup of waste particles, it isn't fuel.

[dudleybloke]

I found whale oil produced far less smoke when under load than veg and veg/derv mix.

[DieselDemon]

We had problems with our diesel delivery and ran the vehicles on Jet A-1, essentially 28 second oil but with additives, for two weeks. The vehicles were Merc trucks, 2009 and 2017 models. They all ran fine but one had issues with the fuel filter getting blocked.

It was a temporary solution, but I can confirm that even in modern common rail Diesel engines it works. It knocks a little more and I noticed a hesitation on acceleration in 1 of the vehicles.

Before that, we ran on gas oil (35 second oil) and had 0 problems. All the engines have 10,000+ hours on them and have run gas oil from new.

Older Diesel engines should have no problems running 28 second oil, kerosene or Jet A-1 long term if given a lubricant like veg oil.

I personally run my older “diesel” vehicle on a blend of combustibles.

I actually made a post about our vehicles running Jet A-1 the last time we had diesel delivery problems ~3 years ago.

Edited by DieselDemon on Sunday 9th October 15:27

[Tony1963]

DieselDemon said:

We had problems with our diesel delivery and ran the vehicles on Jet A-1, essentially 28 second oil but with additives, for two weeks. The vehicles were Merc trucks, 2009 and 2017 models. They all ran fine but one had issues with the fuel filter getting blocked.

It was a temporary solution, but I can confirm that even in modern common rail Diesel engines it works. It knocks a little more and I noticed a hesitation on acceleration in 1 of the vehicles.

Before that, we ran on gas oil (35 second oil) and had 0 problems. All the engines have 10,000+ hours on them and have run gas oil from new.

Older Diesel engines should have no problems running 28 second oil, kerosene or Jet A-1 long term if given a lubricant like veg oil.

I personally run my older “diesel” vehicle on a blend of combustibles.

I actually made a post about our vehicles running Jet A-1 the last time we had diesel delivery problems ~3 years ago.

Edited by DieselDemon on Sunday 9th October 15:27

RAF Marham personnel used to have a lot of experience with using avtur in cars, vans and heating systems.

Used to.

[Egbut Nobacon]

Could offer a definitive answer to the heating oil question. During 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 I ran a 5 cylinder merc 2.7 CDI on mixture of heating oil and veg oil this was a 2003 Jeep grand Cherokee. It then went to France where it was fed a mixture of used chip oil and diesel. In 2019 I sold it to a local farmer who did not care what side the steering wheel was on.....it was running perfectly well when I left it.

[TwinKam]

Egbut Nobacon said:

Could offer a definitive answer to the heating oil question. During 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 I ran a 5 cylinder merc 2.7 CDI on mixture of heating oil and veg oil this was a 2003 Jeep grand Cherokee. It then went to France where it was fed a mixture of used chip oil and diesel. In 2019 I sold it to a local farmer who did not care what side the steering wheel was on.....it was running perfectly well when I left it.

A 2003 Jeep (anything) was hardly the pinnacle of sophistication in 2003, let alone a 'modern' common-rail diesel .

[Kuwahara]

Ran an AX on a mixture of heating oil and veg oil ,the latter for some lubricant with no issues at all ,I would guess newer stuff is computer says no…!!

[Super Sonic]

Psiteep said:

. Rudolf Diesel deliberately designed his engine to run any kind of volatile fuel, which in his time meant every type of cooking oils including whale oil. He did as says ''Many people in counntry districts will not have any petrol/gasoline station near to them"...

Rofl

[dudleybloke]

Whale oil burns fairly clean.

[liner33]

Tony1963 said:

RAF Marham personnel used to have a lot of experience with using avtur in cars, vans and heating systems.

Used to.

Easy way to get a spell in chokey then a conviction and discharge

[Tony1963]

liner33 said:

Easy way to get a spell in chokey then a conviction and discharge

They were civilian contractors.