Ok this is one of those odd ball questions. A few months ago, i flew into an airport in NW Oklahoma to get some fuel. The airport used a 2003-4 Powerstroke for their fuel truck. The exhaust coming from the truck smelled real rich. like jet engine exhaust...Could they be using jet fuel in their truck? Is this possible?

 

Yes, they could but I would not do that personally in the VP44 engine or the PS.

The PS may not be sensitive to it, but I do know the plungers in their injectors can scuff from even bad Diesel #2.

Water and Jet fuel dont play well together either and the filters can seperate the two once they get hitched.

Don~

 

did you mean they cant seperate?

 

Yeah I was wondering if the VP44 would take it or not. Last i Checked JetA was pretty high priced too.

 

The military is running all JP-8/jet-A in their turbine and compression ignition engines. Inline IP don't seem to have a problem. Rotary pumps are having problems, especially the Stanadyne in the 6.2/6.5's. A lot of guys are dumping a quart of 15-40 in the tank when they fill up. We're seeing about a 10 - 15% drop in power with the JP-8. Cleans good tho.

 

Jet-A is one of the few fuels my owners manual says NOT to use.

 

JP5 and JP8 run great. The ship I was on had turbines and standard squish bangs. End of the patrols we would do "full power trials" on the way home w/ the turbine fuel to clean out the mains after months of cutting squares holes in the ocean. It's just a more refined cracking of petroleum then diesel but not as thin as kero. It shouldn't effect your engine if you run it occaisionaly...But why? "premium diesel" for the VW TDI drivers at those fuel botiques that pass as gas stations these days is cheaper. I can't see any benefit to paying more for same