Will a 2006 peugeot partner diesel 1.9 run on home heating oil without any changing the fuel pump?
The short answer is yes it will run on #2 heating oil.
For more in depth, read on:
Fuel oil is classified into six classes, numbered 1 through 6, according to its boiling point, composition and purpose. The boiling point, ranging from 175 to 600 掳C, and carbon chain length, 20 to 70 atoms, of the fuel increases with fuel oil number. Viscosity also increases with number, and the heaviest oil has to be heated to get it to flow. Price usually decreases as the fuel number increases.
No. 1 fuel oil, No. 2 fuel oil and No. 3 fuel oil are variously referred to as distillate fuel oils, diesel fuel oils, light fuel oils, gasoil or just distillate. For example, No. 2 fuel oil, No. 2 distillate and No. 2 diesel fuel oil are almost the same thing (diesel is different in that it also has a cetane number limit which describes the ignition quality of the fuel). Distillate fuel oils are distilled from crude oil.
Gas oil refers to the process of distillation. The oil is heated, becomes a gas and then condenses.
No. 1 is similar to kerosene and is the fraction that boils off right after gasoline.
No. 2 is the diesel that trucks and some cars run on, leading to the name %26quot;road diesel%26quot;. It is the same thing as heating oil
No. 3 is a distillate fuel oil and is rarely used.
No. 4 fuel oil is usually a blend of distillate and residual fuel oils, such as No. 2 and 6; however, sometimes it is just a heavy distillate. No. 4 may be classified as diesel, distillate or residual fuel oil.
No. 5 fuel oil and No. 6 fuel oil are called residual fuel oils (RFO) or heavy fuel oils. As far more No. 6 than No. 5 is produced, the terms heavy fuel oil and residual fuel oil are sometimes used as for No. 6. They are what remains of the crude oil after gasoline and the distillate fuel oils are extracted through distillation. No. 5 fuel oil is a mixture of No. 6 (about 75-80%) with No. 2. No. 6 may also contain a small amount of No. 2 to get it to meet specifications.
Residual fuel oils are sometimes called light when they have been mixed with distillate fuel oil, while distillate fuel oils are called heavy when they have been mixed with residual fuel oil. Heavy gas oil, for example, is a distillate that contains residual fuel oil. The ready availability of very heavy grades of fuel oil is often due to the success of catalytic cracking of fuel to release more valuable fractions and leave heavy residue.
Will a 2006 peugeot partner diesel 1.9 run on home heating oil without any changing the fuel pump?
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You will be fined when they do the inspection.
Well yes.
We bought a 206 and it failed its mot (im in the UK)
1.9 diesel non-turbo.
Got bored with it lying behind the house so fired it up and ran it on various different fuels.
First one we tried was the home-heating stuff as you call it. Out of the funky black tanks?
ran fine, just don't use it all the time, it will wear the seals on the pumps.
Dont even touch red diesel.
And erm...just as a slight side note for you...
Don't run a car on nothing but Wynns power boost.
Big cracks in the block and stuff...
Here in Belgium, home heating oil (with red dye) is EXACTLY the same as diesel fuel (clear liquid). There is NO inspection of your fuel at the yearly MOT in Belgium, however many Lorries get a fuel colour check by the customs / tax police along the roadside from time to time.
VERY few cars are inspected at roadsides. if any.
The fuel pump should not be your concern, but the combustion of the dye...I don't think it is a great problem. Farmers in Belgium are allowed to use the red fuel in their farm equipment...to save the farmers money.
And one man I know used it ALWAYS in the 1990's, in his BMW, never got caught.
You have some good answers already.
Just a note that your 2006 will have an HDi engine. The HDi engines use significantly higher fuel pressures than the older style mechanical injection system engines such as the one that another answerer has tested. There is a lot of info available on running the older Peugeot diesels on vege oil etc (eg bosch pump good, lucas bad if using vege oil) but no so much on running HDi engines on alternative fuels.
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