Skip,, I don't know much about diesels, I've only owned two of them, My Case Backhoe and my VW Jetta TDI. However, a diesel mechanic friend told me once that any kind of oil you can force through the injector will make it run. I don't know! I know my jetta has run on heating oil, filtered waste vegetoble oil. and anything else that I don't think is too risky to feed through it. I've told my wife, if she runs out of fuel in it and there's none around, go to a supermarket and buy a gallon of of corn oil or whatever. It'll get you home! So I'd be surprised if the diesel didn't run on ATF.
Terry
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Originally Posted by skip
When a semi broke down on the toll road in sub zero temps I drove that driver to a store for two qts. of ATF, which he used to fill his diesel fuel filters, only to find out that the tiny shaft driving the fuel pump had broken and was not delivering fuel to the injectors on his CAT engine. But the engine did run on the ATF. Hu Ha! for ATF.
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