Diesel versus Central Heating oil

[AuthorEditor]

At least here in most of the USA they are usually very similar, and in much of the Northeast they now must both be below 15PPM sulfur, so they would be interchangeable. From Wikipedia:
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In many markets heating oil and on-road diesel fuels are the same product sold out of the same truck in route labeled as either heating oil or dyed diesel respectively dependent on the person ordering product.


As I've said, many times I've seen large yachts and fishing boats fill up from a home heating oil delivery truck. I've asked a few times and they told me it was just home heating oil.

 

[Kamele0N]

Yeah...you can burn heating oil in an engine(s) like those in yachts and boats...they are 20th century technology... Like in vw G2 or in MB190D

Mechanical bosch pump...and "mechanical" injectors...

Piezzo injectors in modern engines will soon get clogged...

 

[bmwpowere36m3]

Originally Posted by AuthorEditor
At least here in most of the USA they are usually very similar, and in much of the Northeast they now must both be below 15PPM sulfur, so they would be interchangeable. From Wikipedia:
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In many markets heating oil and on-road diesel fuels are the same product sold out of the same truck in route labeled as either heating oil or dyed diesel respectively dependent on the person ordering product.


As I've said, many times I've seen large yachts and fishing boats fill up from a home heating oil delivery truck. I've asked a few times and they told me it was just home heating oil.


I've been told the same by our friend/customer/oil delivery guy... off-road diesel and No.2 heating oil are near identical (both low-sulfur in our region). We buy extra No. 2 for machines (skid steer and mini-ex). I add a dose of Power Service for a warm and fuzzy.

 

[Jarlaxle]

Originally Posted by Rob_Roy
Heating oil does not have the same specs for lubricity and cetane. I would only use it in an emergency.


According to the reciept, my mother's last delivery of heating oil was "#2 ULS fuel oil, not for road use". Heating oil is diesel fuel is heating oil. The only difference is the red dye.

 

[Jarlaxle]

Originally Posted by atikovi
Originally Posted by Eddie
Heating oil is hot taxed as high as Diesel fuel. I think it is illegal to run heating oil in diesel rigs. . Ed


Does anyone ever get caught, at least in a passenger car? What about people making diesel from waste cooking oil? They don't pay any taxes on it.


In almost 20 years of driving diesel vehicles (personal vehicles from an F-350 to an Escort, driving wreckers, buses, and semis), I have NEVER had the fuel tanks checked.

 

[Jarlaxle]

Originally Posted by Kamele0N
Yeah...you can burn heating oil in an engine(s) like those in yachts and boats...they are 20th century technology... Like in vw G2 or in MB190D

Mechanical bosch pump...and "mechanical" injectors...

Piezzo injectors in modern engines will soon get clogged...

My company's trucks have been fueled by a tanker for 15+ years. Directly from the driver: the only difference between what goes in the tanks and what he sells as heating oil is red dye. The yard goat and loader both run "heating oil" (red fuel) with no problem.

 

[xxch4osxx]

Originally Posted by Jarlaxle
Originally Posted by atikovi
Originally Posted by Eddie
Heating oil is hot taxed as high as Diesel fuel. I think it is illegal to run heating oil in diesel rigs. . Ed


Does anyone ever get caught, at least in a passenger car? What about people making diesel from waste cooking oil? They don't pay any taxes on it.


In almost 20 years of driving diesel vehicles (personal vehicles from an F-350 to an Escort, driving wreckers, buses, and semis), I have NEVER had the fuel tanks checked.


25 years here and never had tanks checked either. Seen them checking other vehicles though.

 

[ironman_gq]

Here heating oil is #2 diesel, comes in the same trucks as the off-road and I've seen them go from filling excavators to filling home fuel tanks in the same trip.