Texas | AGDEAL - 5/22/2019 13:48 High content Biodiesel in cold weather= gelled feed tractor
Not necessarily.
I believe your feed tractor gelled with biodiesel, but I also know you weren't prepared to run it on biodiesel in the cold weather or it wouldn't have gelled. If you run biodiesel of good quality, derived from a winter appropriate feedstock, and use a heated fuel supply system it will run. If you run your feed tractor on #2 without treatment or blending with #1, and don't have a fuel heater it will gell.
I have run B99 all winter long in the northern states without any issue. I used to haul soybean oil from Lincoln, NE during the winter with snow storms that closed I-80 and -10 temps, all the while sleeping in the truck as I waited out the road closures.
It all depends on the fuel you use and the supply line from the tank to the engine. If you have a tank heater or in-line fuel heater you will not have trouble. If you don't run an additive or fuel heater, you will gell with 100% petro fuel.
I have had my truck gelled up on the side of the road in northern Iowa (Storm Lake) with -35 temps that was 80% #1 diesel and 20% #2 diesel with a double dose of Power Service. I had to have it towed, warmed inside a building, and all the fuel drained and refilled with straight #1 diesel before it would run again.
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