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Ed Pawlowski Ed Pawlowski is offline
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Default does old heating fuel oil go bad?

On 11/8/2016 4:59 PM, Mike Duffy wrote:
On Mon, 7 Nov 2016 14:27:00 -0800 (PST), wrote:

[...] #2 fuel oil that has been sitting in a tank for a couple of years.


I have a few dozen gallons that my Dad got mixed up with gasoline. I mean,
he confused it with gasoline, and so he mixed it up with 2-stroke engine
oil.

I know I can't use it for any type of engine, nor in the oil furnace. What
I was wondering is if anyone can think of a good use, other than producing
inordinate amounts of white smoke.


My father got fuel oil in his 1950 Chevy. He had to clean the fuel
filter a couple of times at first, but once diluted it ran. Diluted
enough it will run in a gas engine.