I was nosing around looking for something completely unrelated and stumbled upon this:
Question:
Is 4 year old diesel fuel still good?
Answer:
No, diesel should not be used after five years
Does anyone else see anything wrong with that statement ?
Like many things on the internet, one has to wonder if the person answering even read what the questioner asked.
Along that line of discussion though, I did recently drag a five-gallon hydraulic fluid bucket out from under a shelf that had 20-yr-old diesel fuel in it; there was a dated note taped across the spout that said so.
I poked my nose in it and then poured it in on top of 5-gallons of not-so-old fuel and drove the whiz out of it; no..., my hair didn't fall out, nor my teeth, nor did I notice any detrimental effects whatsoever.
And, to put things into perspective, that building where the fuel had been these last twenty years is always either breath-taking hot or bone-chilling cold depending on the time of year.
We are forevermore going after old trucks and equipment that hasn't been driven in thirty or more years and firing them up and running them on whatever old fuel may be in them; if you can get them to turn over, they will fire and run on that old fuel as good as if it were new yesterday and I have never seen nor experienced any negative effects.
Heck, the durn stuff has been down there under the earth for millions of years; surely it will last more than a couple years up here above ground.
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