I was wondering if off road diesel would be good or not for my lb7. If not why? I would be getting it from my boss on an oil drilling rig
Off road diesel( red diesel)
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It's all about tax money. Besides the dye, the fuel is the same. Don't get caught, I have heard the fines are big.
Back in 05-early 2009 red fuel was the shit and a full of sulfer, since Jan 1 2010 it's all the same fuel, just dyed as mentioned above.
The fuel is the same, the dirty rig tanks are not, I've seen to many company trucks get screwd on rig fuel
10k fine back in the 90's for running offroad on road... As mentioned above I would be more concerned with the cleanliness of the fuel. LB7 injectors have enough issues without running dirty fuel through them
X2 even with filters on tanks you can get a ton of shit out of those tanks. I use the dragup tank on my work truck for long trips with road diesel in it. It has a filter on it and it still plugged up my trucks fuel filter in 5k miles. I pump some road diesel out of it into a glass 1Qt. jar. After 1 week the bottom of the jar was red from a layer of small rust partials.
And I won't even mention how much shit was in the bottom of my fuel tank when I dropped it to install a lift pump. From tanks without filters when we would top off our trucks to get them empty to moving them to the next job site.
But free fuel will pay for a bit of repairs and really your filter will clean the fuel. It will just plug up faster. You got to think the fuel system are just fine in the equipment your fueling up with that tank. They just have bigger filters to deal with all the crap.
And I won't even mention how much shit was in the bottom of my fuel tank when I dropped it to install a lift pump. From tanks without filters when we would top off our trucks to get them empty to moving them to the next job site.
But free fuel will pay for a bit of repairs and really your filter will clean the fuel. It will just plug up faster. You got to think the fuel system are just fine in the equipment your fueling up with that tank. They just have bigger filters to deal with all the crap.
Thanks for the help . I don't think Ima do it just cause the injectors and the fines are pretty pricey if I get caught.
I ran red for years and still do if I have the chance lol I've run rig fuel my fass cleaned the fuel just fine but I put it in my tank which has a 10 micron filter so it got filtered twice before it hit the fass. Also not sure why you guys got nailed so bad but it's 500 first offense here and 2000 second time and like 10k third time plus jail time. Now if your commercial that's a whole different ball game and I definitely wouldn't in a commercial vehicle
Yes, they are both the exact same fuel. One is dyed red, one is dyed green/yellow.