Diesel Oil

[method]

I have some diesel oil lying around at home and i was wondering if its alright to use in petrol engines?

Is there anything special about diesel oil or is it just same as normal engine oil with extra cleaners in it.

Its the same weight, 15-40.

[Crampy]

I've heard of people running Diesel oil in petrol motors for the reason they have the extra cleaners in them.

I've never tried it however, so couldn't tell you if it was any good or not.

[method]

Oh sweet as, its going into a 4k anyway, so its not going to be under any extreme stress.

[Lloyd]

If its only in a 4K just run water in everything. It wont know the difference, or care

[method]

Haha thats exactly why i didnt mention its a 4k in the first post.

Was expecting a reply such as "When you do a oil change on your 4agte chuck it in the 4k"

[mjrstar]

diesel oil is great, as it will pull a lot of the carbon build up out of the oil system.
If it was a decent motor i'd probably only do about 1000 k's on it and change it out so it doesn't mank up the filter but on a k series who cares.

[79rolla]

i ran my 4k on some gerail purpose agriculturail oil witch is basikly is desil oil... it was already screwd but it didint kill it any faster... but it shuld be fine... if that all youv got it will live quite happily, spechaily scince its a k, only way we killd one was with hydrolic oil... (acsident)

[method]

Well i have some Valvoline stuff but at $45 a bottle id like to use something cheaper. Im a scruge and the Valvoline is for my 4age

Cheers for the info.. will probably do a oil and filterchange on the 4k one day.. I should probably fix the cracked radiator first though!