I know it's a bit off subject but if you mix 5 litres of petrol & 15 litres of heating oil you get TVO and I run my old tractor on it
It won't last long, TVO is Tractor vapourising oil. Red diesel to you. Mixing heating oil which has few lubricating properties and petrol which has no lubricating properties is going to fook your injector pump up. Petrol is the last thing you want to be mixing heating oil with for that use. A little in diesel in winter is fine but nothing like that ratio of mix.
jamesmartin
Well-Known Member
tvo isnt red diesel which is diesel its a mix to burn paraffin in petrol engine and has a great smell that reminds me of when i was little ,heating fuel is either diesel or paraffin
Golan
Active Member
My tractors doesn't have a pump to fook it has a carb! The recipe was given to me by the old chap I got the tractor from. The heating oil I use is clearish... And if it was going to fook up my engine I think it would've happen in the last 7 years... ;-)
jamesmartin
Well-Known Member
what tractor do you have ,my favourite was allis chalmers d270
jamesmartin
Well-Known Member
trackmaster is good
Golan
Active Member
It's a 1947 TEA 20 I use it to chop up fire wood, drag trees out of the woods and last year in the snow I pulled a few cars out of ditches...
Golan
Active Member
my uncle has 1 of only a handful left in the world still running on TVO
Better make that two now then... ;-)
jamesmartin
Well-Known Member
was the first true tractor ,ive got a tvo fergie with split tank not so early though
buckshot
Well-Known Member
most were converted to diesal when TVO was fazed out
jamesmartin
Well-Known Member
good one any piccys, i served my time a massey dealers in early 80s ,bigger tractors but still basically the same design hydraulically, first tractor where hydraulic arms could be used to give traction
Golan
Active Member
I guess the old boy that had it for all those years must have liked the smell!
buckshot
Well-Known Member
Golan
Active Member
I do but I'm on my phone, maybe post a couple in the morning if your interested.
jamesmartin
Well-Known Member
ta ,do you have any extras to go with it
