Home heating oil in gasoline?

[Gasbuggy]

I know this is really random. I Googled mixing diesel with gas since they are so similar and saw inconsistent information. I have about a pint of heating fuel in a jar from bleeding the fuel line to the furnace at my girlfriends apartment. The landlord didn't keep the delivery schedule up and the tank went empty. After being filled the furnace wouldn't fire and service wasn't coming soon enough to bleed/prime it so I did it myself. I thought if it could be of some benefit to my engine I would pour it in my full tank of 93.

 

[Rebel Rouser]

I don't know how the laws work for additives, but if the fuel oil is dyed red, it is essentially non-taxed diesel fuel. I wouldn't think it would hurt anything, but the new ultra low sulfur diesel type fuels, including home heating fuels, are much drier now than before, and offer little for lubricity. There may be some solvent properties for cleaning. Regards!

 

[lewdwig]

Can you put it in the heating oil tank?

 

[RiceCake]

Putting diesel (or heating oil, or kerosene) in with your gas offers no net benefit other then reducing your octane rating some.

It burns, sure, but it doesn't burn cleanly in a gasoline engine and will contribute to deposits and killing your catalytic converter.

But that being said I'd throw a litre into a full tank just to burn it. Don't make it a hobby though.

 

[yonyon]

You can probably dispose of such a small quantity of fuel oil by simply pouring it out onto the ground. That's what the DEP guys do around here anyway. It is biodegradable.

Using even a small amount of heating oil as a fuel for a vehicle that drives on public roads would be a no-no. You have to pay your fair share of highway taxes.

 

[Doog]

Originally Posted By: yonyon
You can probably dispose of such a small quantity of fuel oil by simply pouring it out onto the ground. That's what the DEP guys do around here anyway. It is biodegradable.

Using even a small amount of heating oil as a fuel for a vehicle that drives on public roads would be a no-no. You have to pay your fair share of highway taxes.


+1 However,1 gallon of oil will pollute 1 million gallons of fresh water when it runs off into the water table. So dumping any refined petroleum product is in violation of several EPA mandates. Burning it in your engine will be illegal as well since it will destroy the catalyst in your Federally required emission system. My best recommendation would have been to simply drink it but now that the Affordable Health Care Act has been passed the resulting illness from drinking the fuel oil would put an unfair burden on the public healthcare system. This oil should be taken to a proper recycling facility before it evaporates into the atmosphere and causes even more climate change.

 

[Gabe]

Originally Posted By: yonyon
You can probably dispose of such a small quantity of fuel oil by simply pouring it out onto the ground. That's what the DEP guys do around here anyway. It is biodegradable.


Dumping it into the ground seems like a bad idea to me.

 

[expat]

Why not put it back into the furnace oil tank?

 

[Gasbuggy]

Originally Posted By: expat
Why not put it back into the furnace oil tank?


The cap sits out by a busy sidewalk, it has a lock on it.

I poured it in my Cadillac, it doesn't have cats on it.

 

[bvance554]

I was going to suggest putting it in your girlfriends car but I'm too late.

 

[demarpaint]

If you're worried and you only have a pint, add half a pint to your gas tank each time you fill up. The car will never know the difference. Or next time you change your oil, add it to the waste oil and recycle it with your waste oil.

 

[rjundi]

It smokes in my tractor as the heating installers left a jar.

I did small amounts. Not sure I would place into a car due to potential emmissions damage or at least a check engine.

 

[Donald]

I have done the priming of the oil boiler a few times, but I do not get much, maybe 1/2 cup. I let it sit in the cat food container and after awhile it looked dirty from settling. (The cat food container was pretty clean as my dog licks it clean).

I bring most of my used oil to the guy that fixes my cars. Maybe he will give me a discount some day. I try and keep it pretty clean as he burns it.

The contaminated stuff (this being one) goes to Walmart.

 

[fdcg27]

Fuel oil/diesel/jet A are similar fuels and are efficient octane destroyers.
I've mixed odd amounts of fuel oil and diesel that I've had laying around, like you, into the gas I use for the mowers, although at a far higher concentration than you'd be doing, and it caused dieseling of even these old low compression flatheads.
Still, I can't see a pint in twenty gallons of gasoline doing any harm or good. At that concentration, you won't even know it's there, nor will any part of the car.

 

[RiceCake]

I've poured a half gallon of diesel into 16 gallons of gasoline in my car before...half a pint will do nothing.

Burn is burn.

 

[Loobed]

this stuff contains Diesel #2

http://www.hyperlube.com/images/HPF200-Fuel-System-Cleaner-MSDS.pdf

 

[Gasbuggy]

The check engine light came on, I didn't check the code because my handheld was borrowed by a friend. I'm sure it was from the heating oil. When I got down to 1/4 tank I filled up and in went off the next day.