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    Adding ATF to your diesel fuel?

    Just bought a Gallon of Optilube winter from their website. http://opti-lube.com/diesel-fuel-improver/winter-blend-diesel-fuel-improver.html #1 To prevent gelling up here when we get those 40 below days. #2 For lubricity improvement It was $69.62 delivered for 1 gallon. 1 gallon treats 512...
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    Adding ATF to your diesel fuel?

    Why not just use an actual lubricity additive like Optilube that is proven (even a thread on this site someplace) to have real benefits? Seems random to just use ATF. I know an oldtimer mechanic that used it to prime new fuel filters for diesels to prevent an airlock and supposedly clean things...
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    Adding ATF to your diesel fuel?

    #1 and #2 Diesel contain 15ppm of Sulphur. There is absolutely no difference in Sulphur content between them. The only difference is the paraffin content. I just bought and had delivered 2,000 gallons of diesel for our winter operations here. 504 gallons of it was #1 1,496 gallons of it was #2...
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    Adding ATF to your diesel fuel?

    Ahh. Thanks. I am using a Stanadyne additive for the same reason. But I bet ATF is cheaper.
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    Adding ATF to your diesel fuel?

    Why would you want to add ATF to your diesel fuel? It works well as a clean way to fill a fresh fuel filter (provided the atf containers are new and unopened). Just curious why you want to add ATF specifically or is it just to burn it up?
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