sandcobra164
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Short answer, yes it will. Now onto some background. I used to have an M35A2 and a friend of mine still does. I put anything petroleum based in the fuel tank of that truck for years with no worries. Drained oil from the car, lawnmower, friends waste oil, good to go! My friend built a very impressive filtration stand. 10 micron water block filter to a 5 micron to a 2 micron into a centrifuge powered by a 10 gallon per minute pump. He gets waste ATF from a local shop and blends it 50/50 with pump diesel. I got my 5 ton around 3 years ago and only go by the shop when he has a good mess of fuel blended up to top off. I normally just put pump diesel in it. The truck runs fine on the blend. Over the past year, I haven't been to a diesel pump at all. My friend found a good source for diesel and ATF so aside from processing costs, free fuel. My truck likely got to 50/50 absolute and all seemed fine. Made the 190 mile trip each way to Durhamtown but couldn't help but think it was a little low on power. The deuce following me almost pushed on my tailgate going up some hills. It also smoked quite a bit and took quite a few more rotations of the starter to get going. I went to the gas station today. It took 30 gallons of diesel to fill the tank up so I'm likely at a 75/25 blend now. I drove the truck about 15 miles to get the exhaust cleared up on the new blend and guess what? I think the truck now has about 50 more horsepower. I like the idea of free fuel but I think I'm going 100% diesel from now on. I've read on here that 50/50 is fine and the 250 Cummins will be happy with it but I have to disagree. If you're going to do it, you will lose some power. Might not matter if you're not needing full power but when I go to Durhamtown, I run interstates, hills, etc on 14's. I can't drop below 55 mph to keep friends and blended 50/50, it won't do it. 55 mph comes around 1,750 rpm, let it drop below that on the blend and it can get as slow as 45 mph before it'd downshift to 4th. Now, it tows a 6,000 pound trailer stronger than it would run empty! Maybe a turbo would help the blend burn better, I'm sure it's compression related as the deuce has 22 to 1 versus about 17 to 1 for the Cummins.