Can I damage the engine if I start putting heating oil in the tank instead of regular diesel fuel. Here there is app. $2.00 difference a gallon.
J-P

J.P. You car would run just fine with furnace oil. But if you are cought by Surete du Quebec or Transport Inspection, you saving account will take a big hit.
Up to $3,000. fine
jackD

down here south of the border heating oil is just dyed diesel. if the federales catch you running with dyed fuel then it will be a hefty fine. not sure what the mounties would do to ya!?

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1984 300D Turbo - 231k....totalled 11/30/07 RIP

Suggest putting in a second hidden tank. Keep regular diesel in the normal tank so if you are stopped, a sampling will show you legal, but burn heating oil using the tank hidden in the trunk.

Remember the story about the dieselers in Wales fined for burning untaxed waste vegetable oil in their cars? The bobbies were smelling their exhaust.

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

Thank you all for the sound advises. For the little millage I put in the car a year, the saving would not be that great. However I'm still looking for a good cylinder head.
J-P

Reminds me of all the farmers in Germany in the 1960s and probably still today, that all had 180 and 190 diesel MBs as they got tax-reduced diesel for their tractors...