High Sulphur fuel - Diesel Forum

Gypsy1 · 08-31-2005, 10:49 AM

Anyone have any experiance runnibg high sulphur fuel in Ford PSD 7.3.
Making trip to South America, understand that low sulphur not always available.

redneckmba · 08-31-2005, 05:05 PM

I am in the refining business.

We sell some USA "home heating oil" to South America for diesel fuel. Our sulphur content is about 2000 ppm. (USA over-the-road diesel is 500ppm.) But I don't know what the max spec is in SA. Could be the stuff from the local refineries is even higher in sulphur.

I do know that SA has higher cetane specs. I believe it is a cetane rating of about 50. You'll like the way your diesel runs on that high of a cetane rating. In the USA, the rating is 40.

Change your oil more often. The high sulphur makes more "acid gas" that takes-out oil sooner. If you are towing, you may want to go down to 2,000 mile change intervals.

Red

Gypsy1 · 09-02-2005, 11:31 AM

Thanks for the info! Hope you are not in the storm area, God Bless!

Rickie · 09-02-2005, 01:30 PM

The further south you go, the better the diesel gets. At least from my personal experience. The fuel in Mexico is good.

Who knows?