6+ year old diesel

[doodah]

I have been offered about 7-20litre containers of diesel that is around 6 years old....

Looking up the subject on the internet offered many differing opinions, none conclusive....

interested to hear your thoughts.....

[Mr. Flibble]

Was it stored sealed? Plastic or metal? Any particles in it? How much water has been absorbed?

If clean and water free it should mix in with regular fairly well. Diesels can burn most oils as long as they are clean and water free.

Having said that, if there are the wrong kind of contaminants you could damage your engine. e.g. Gasoline mixed in.

[doodah]

The fuel has been stored in yellow, plastic diesel containers inside a shipping containers. I suspect no contaminants have entered. The owner was running a big backhoe when fuel was purchased.

[thedjjack]

Anyone making WVO or a fuel co-op in your area? I would want it filtered and water separated before I would run it....

[dfnder]

At my work they have a massive diesel tank in case the power goes out and the want to run on the generators. I saw a company had come in and were filtering the diesel and putting it back into the tank. I talked to the guy running the filters and he said that diesel keeps real well if stored correctly. The diesel at our plant had been sitting for two years in a tank the size of a medium size tanker truck. They filtered with globe filters (2 inline, 50, and 5?micron and recalculated for 20 hours to ensure that it was all filtered then good to go.

I have diesel from my furnace tank and some WVO that I am going to filter soon where abouts are you?

[doodah]

I'm on an island in Howe Sound with no ferry service....

[Firesong]

Mix it half and half with new and see how it goes on.
Should be fine.
If not it simply wont perform as good. Then toss.
Easy