Larry,

No offense but your concerns are misplaced. Of course the great thing about
our country is that YOU get to decide based upon your beliefs. But, would
large fleet managers recycle lube oil into fuel tanks if it was costing them
money? The systems used for the purpose include complete and adaquate
filtration.

This debate comes along from time to time in this group. Most folks are
horrified with the idea and would not do it for love nor $$$. I just happen
to be one of a few folks on the group who spent a lifetime operating and
maintaining diesel engines in a fleet setting. I've had a lot of training
in the field and have attended all major manufacturer's training schools.
I've followed the practice for many years and have not had any unusual
injector nor pump failures.

I guess I've said waaay more than enough on the subject. As stated earlier,
YMMV.

Butch
"Larry" wrote in message
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"Bill McKee" wrote in
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And how much would in cost in fuel filters? Maybe in an old Detroit
Diesel. But not in any new diesel with a high pressure pump.


I have horrible visions of all those nearly invisible metal filings,
carbon
particles and other microscopic contaminants grinding away between the
fuel
pump pistons and those finely precision holes to .0001" tolerances they
pump so carefully into. Combine the solid contaminants too small to
filter
with all the acidic blowby chemistry, the reason we change the oil so
often
in a diesel engine, and I'd think it wouldn't take long to simply eat away
at the inside of the amazingly-expensive injection pump, primary pump, and
the tiny nozzles' guts in the cylinders.

Yecch.....all for a few bucks saved on a tank? I suppose if we're going
to
do this, we could also slowly dump the electrolyte from those old
batteries
in the fuel tank, too, to eat away at it all quicker!

--
Larry