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Tl;dr: The military requires that its diesel vehicles be able to run on jet fuel to simplify logistics.
by FateOfNations 2y ago
Tl;dr: The military requires that its diesel vehicles be able to run on jet fuel to simplify logistics.
- toomuchtodo 2y agoThe US military is a logistics organization that occasionally happens to project power.
- master_crab 2y agoYup coming to post this. JP-8 is the primary fuel used in military vehicles and is kerosene based. But, the military does maintain stocks of DF-2 (the diesel you get at the station) for many COTS vehicles. If I remember correctly, most commercial diesels can run on JP-8. But you can’t mix-and-match.
- linksnapzz 2y agoYou can run normal diesel engines on kerosene (which is what jet fuel mostly is); the issue is that kerosene is less lubricating to the mechanical parts in the fuel-delivery system than pump diesel. This was a bigger issue back when mechanical injection was the rule. The solution is to pour a pint or two of automatic transmission fluid into the tank with every thirty gallon fill up. Of course, the EGR, SCR & particulate filter were never designed for this setup, so when you convert a modern pickup to run on kerosene, those systems are blocked off, removed (w/ a sawzall for the dpf), a new exhaust is fitted and the ECU can be remapped with more appropriate settings. This will also about double your mpg.