That's not correct. Paraffin and the lighter kerosene are both light weight lubricating oils and are used as such in many applications including the high pressure oil pump of oil burning boilers.
technically paraffin does have some but so does water,but nowhere near enough for a diesel engine injection system,if you wanted to use cheap fuel youd use red dieselThat's not correct. Paraffin and the lighter kerosene are both light weight lubricating oils and are used as such in many applications including the high pressure oil pump of oil burning boilers.
its really poor advice extolling the user of kerosene in a diesel especially a more modern systemYep aviation fuel is Kerosene. And it's used as home heating oil. And a diesel engine will run just fine on it and so will my Lister D type if I mix it 50/50 with petrol. And it's in most spray on lubricants.
you might get away for a time with a inline injection pump and an engine might run on it but it will bugger your pump and injectors
If you filter it through a muslin cloth and only add it in concentrations of 10% or so, it should be fine. It's only a vegetable based mineral oil, not to dissimilar to 2 stroke oil. It'll smell like a chip shop, but it's not going do much harm to an L series diesel.
Thanks for the tip, if and when I can find a decent mechanic I'm going to have a oil and filter service, as my diesel filter is on the bulkhead does it just unscrew like an oil filter ? If I can unscrew it is there a procedure to bleed the system ?
