Daniel McCurdy
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Has anyone tried useing gear oil as fuel. A mine is just throwing away a bunch of brand new ep150 and ep460 gear oil and was thinking it might make a good fuel.
Has anyone tried useing gear oil as fuel. A mine is just throwing away a bunch of brand new ep150 and ep460 gear oil and was thinking it might make a good fuel.
you can run it as is but make sure you got diesel in the mix at a ratio of 25%-50% or it will be to thick and would make the truck very hard to start.This stuff is in brand new unopened 5gal buckets can I just p our it in the tank or does it still have to be filtered
My thoughts exactly! And the same goes for using atf in fuel. The old stuff was good, but practically everything available these days has a bunch of friction modifiers and additives that would be harm the fuel system.I'm not sure if I'd use gear oil as fuel in a piston engine. Not only is it much thicker then diesel fuel, gear oil has a lot of additives in it for anti-wear on sliding metal on metal surfaces.
IIRC the military found out the hard way that burning waste oil in a piston engine isn't all peaches and cream.. And that those anti wear additives in the motor oil would mess with the piston ring sealing and prematurely wear out engines. Gear oil having a lot more of those additives, would cause me to have a big gut check on using them. Free fuel is great, but not if you're rebuilding the engine and injection system frequently because of it.
ATF will leave lots of Ash deposits when burnedI've used both gear oil and Atf, but admittedly a lot more Atf, with great success. I centrifuge for 48 passes, make sure it's water free, and mix in 20% gasoline to get the correct viscosity.
Neither are designed to be burned like diesel but it can be done, and successfully, if it's clean. As for all the additives, my belief had been that if it's fine for the underside of the piston, it's fine for the top. Likewise with atf... If it's fine for the delicate bands and clutches, it's fine for the top of the piston and being burned up.