I've had guys tell me they have burned kerosene in a diesel engine, and it's been great. Some have told me they add just a little oil to it, and others without. Of course these are guys who have used it in older model diesel engines, and not the computer controlled engines we have today. Need some input from anyone in the business who might be able to advise me. Sometimes we de-fuel turbine engine helicopters, and the jet fuel is given away. Jet fuel is just really well filtered kero, and it's good and clean. Can I take advantage of this free fuel, and burn it in my truck? With diesel prices the way they are, I'd really like to use this fuel in my truck, but don't want to hurt my "Bubble Butt Baby Girl". :help2:
Thanks,
Doug

There have been a few threads regarding this topic, if you search you may find them. But without searching what I remember from the old discussions is that there are too many variables in kerosene. I guess they don't keep too close of tabs on the "grade" of the oil per say, this means you don't really know what you're putting in your motor when you fill the tank with kerosene. So it may run well or it may not. Personally I'd stick with good old #2 and just keep my truck happy :D

EDIT: here's (http://www.dieselplace.com/forum/showthread.php?t=28827&highlight=kerosene) the thread I was thinking of. Hope this helps!

I've had guys tell me they have burned kerosene in a diesel engine, and it's been great. Some have told me they add just a little oil to it, and others without. Of course these are guys who have used it in older model diesel engines, and not the computer controlled engines we have today. Need some input from anyone in the business who might be able to advise me. Sometimes we de-fuel turbine engine helicopters, and the jet fuel is given away. Jet fuel is just really well filtered kero, and it's good and clean. Can I take advantage of this free fuel, and burn it in my truck? With diesel prices the way they are, I'd really like to use this fuel in my truck, but don't want to hurt my "Bubble Butt Baby Girl". http://www.dieselplace.com/forum/images/smilies/help2.gif
Thanks,
Doug

Jet A is pretty much the same no matter who makes it. I have friends that have used it in their trucks since new and no problems. They usually mix some 30w oil and some Marvel Mystery oil in the jet-a and have no problems. A friend has one of the first Dmax's and uses an additive called Stanadyne or something like that and has used jet on and off since it was new. Now Saying that I don't know how it will effect your mileage or how it will work if you tow anything. They just use it to get back and forth to work. I'm looking at getting a Dmax because of the incentives but don't have a place to store Jet here at home.

Why would you want to use kerosene? It isn't no cheaper than diesel, at least around here. Does it burn cleaner?

Why would you want to use kerosene? It isn't no cheaper than diesel, at least around here. Does it burn cleaner?

He's talking about getting it FREE, Kurt, after being prohibited from flight use it has to be disposed.

About Kero (Jet-A), it has a lot less energy (BTUs) than #1 and especially #2 diesel, so you are going to see a noticable loss of power and performance. It's also got nearly ZERO lubricity - so you will HAVE to add something to protect your pump and injectors from damage. Best would be some 2-stroke motor oil, at the very least a mega-dose of a diesel fuel lubricity treatment. If you can cope with the performance loss, are comfortable with the treatment to protect the engine, why not?

My truck was in the shop the other day getting my ext-a-mirror's fixed (again). And they had a 03 duramax 21k. getting a new motor.Completly destroyed do to running kerosene. The tech guy said, kero does not have the lubracation that #2 diesel has and burns hotter. Now im not a expert on this so i cant say either way. But i will say that the pistons were melted on top, and the cylinders walls got extremly hot,do to very bad disscoloration in the walls.

:o: ............ Oh, guess I would have seen that if I read a little farther. I'd still be scared to try it. You'd have to mix that pretty good right? Surely you don't just pour a quart of oil down the tank?

GM used to "allow" mixing kero in the fuel up to 25% for extreme cold conditions. I did it myself once in my 99 6.5TD Tahoe when working in Illinois and we had a week that had temps in the -25 F range. I was also adding a fuel treatment (Stanadyne) and still had 75% #2 in there.