off road diesel fuel

[DoWhat]

Big difference.. JP5 looks like water.. and is lot more "corrosive"(don't think that's the right term). We used JP5 in our generators and it ate the seals around the fuel pump and injector.. made one hell of a mess but the generator continued to run.

A diesel engine CAN run on JP5 but I think you'd run into a lot of costly issues..

So what is the difference between diesel and kerosine?

 

[itsbob]

So what is the difference between diesel and kerosine?

The spelling..

 

[black dog]

JP5 is a high flash point kerosene. It does not have the Lubricity that Diesel fuel has. Unless the engine was designed to run on JP5 fuel it will have a shortened life span.
If you put diesel between your fingers and rub them together it feels slippery.
If you do it with kerosene its not slippery.

 

[black dog]

Kerosene is more refined that Diesel / #2 heating oil.

 

[DoWhat]

JP5 is a high flash point kerosene. It does not have the Lubricity that Diesel fuel has. Unless the engine was designed to run on JP5 fuel it will have a shortened life span.
If you put diesel between your fingers and rub them together it feels slippery.
If you do it with kerosene its not slippery.

We run JP5 in our gator at work.
Never had a problem yet and we are going on 7 years.

 

[somdfunguy]

We run JP5 in our gator at work.
Never had a problem yet and we are going on 7 years.

Year 9 will be bad, 10 will be ok again, but 11 it will cease up.

 

[DoWhat]

Year 9 will be bad, 10 will be ok again, but 11 it will cease up.

Damn it.
Hopefully we will have enough money in our budget to buy a new one.

 

[black dog]

Like I said, It will have a shortened life span.
Send the engineers at John Deere a email and ask if its ok to run your gator on JP5.

 

[abcxyz]

Add Auto Trans Fluid to K1 and it will work in a diesel in a pinch.

 

[somdfunguy]

Add Auto Trans Fluid to K1 and it will work in a diesel in a pinch.

Two sticks of Juicy Fruit and on Bazooka will give the same result.