Lubricity Additive Study

Anyone ever try just adding fresh clean peanut oil to diesel fuel?

 

Its not good for your DPF if you have one.

 

Never had a DPF engine and did not think about that to be honest, I had a connection from a place that received peanut oil in drums and running a KTA 600 I used to get at least 200 gallons of what they called contaminated peanut oil and ran it in the truck.

If the drum was dented it was contaminated, pristine oil and the Olive oil was the same.

 

Thanks for the info

 

I ended up ordering 3 five gallon buckets of Optilube XPD under the TDI Club group buy from Diesel Fuel Lube.com. They arrived in 3 days and I am impressed with the pump and containers that are sent with the units.

I have been messing around with it in an F350 we have here and it seems to make a little difference in the computer MPG. Either way, we feel long term this will keep our HPFP out of the shop.

 

NMU98, the fuel in your area does it contain bio in it, I know most areas do it is used as a cetain booster?

 

Its hit and miss around here for Bio. Bio should be used for lubricity and for tax credits at most stations. I fear bio-diesel used to raise the cetane. Bio-diesel from vegetable oil sources have been recorded as having a cetane number range of 46 to 52, and animal-fat based bio-diesels cetane numbers range from 56 to 60. So if Bio was used to raise cetane, its from animal fat, or most likely is. I would treat that fuel with additives as you get water issues and sediments with bio......

 

The amount of Bio installed is a max 10% and I have never seen any problems with water, that is why you have filters, and especially now with the newer primarys that is not a problem.
The Bio works like a very good fuel detergent cleaning anything and everything. When the first started adding it there were units that plugged the primary filter quickly, those days are long over.
I really recomend putting on a Davco filtration system that is the Cadillac of fuel filters.

 

They claim it's 10%. Experience is showing that the bio-mix is anything but refined.

Even with ethanol, they find the mixes range from 5-20%