The.beard, looks exactly like what I use. I only run 50% wmo, just a personal preference. No problems

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I have run about 50% straight gear oil (New, and red) in my 7.3 liter and it seemed to work fine. SMelled a little funny, but no smoke. Then I ran a mix of mostly used autotrans fluid with a little crankcase waste oil though my centrifugal filter, so it was well filtered. I put about 20% unleaded in it ot get the viscosity more like pump fuel, per USFILTERMAXX, and it smoke pretty heavily. SO I added 50% pump diesel and it continued to smoke. I burned the tank off on the highway (surface streets were embarrassing to drive on due to smoke/smell). It would sometimes billow white smoke at idle or when I stepped on it, but ran OK. I ran it to zero fuel left. I put in 100% pump diesel and it still smoked on the way home, so I bought some fuel system cleaner and added 10OZ to my 30 gallons. It smells way better but I have not driven enough to see if the issue can be fixed by cleaning the system.

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I have run about 50% straight gear oil (New, and red) in my 7.3 liter and it seemed to work fine. SMelled a little funny, but no smoke. Then I ran a mix of mostly used autotrans fluid with a little crankcase waste oil though my centrifugal filter, so it was well filtered. I put about 20% unleaded in it ot get the viscosity more like pump fuel, per USFILTERMAXX, and it smoke pretty heavily. SO I added 50% pump diesel and it continued to smoke. I burned the tank off on the highway (surface streets were embarrassing to drive on due to smoke/smell). It would sometimes billow white smoke at idle or when I stepped on it, but ran OK. I ran it to zero fuel left. I put in 100% pump diesel and it still smoked on the way home, so I bought some fuel system cleaner and added 10OZ to my 30 gallons. It smells way better but I have not driven enough to see if the issue can be fixed by cleaning the system.

 

Does not sound like anything I won't to do.

 

The.beard's, setup looks good. I like his drain pipe at the bottom of his settling tank to drain of the sludge.

Bofinger, I am not completely sure why your engine smoked so bad from the blend. Recently a local person complained of the same smoke issue after putting some fuel additive into his Chevy diesel fuel tank. He thought that he had accidentally pumped gasoline into his fuel tank, so he brought me a sample to look at. I tested the specific gravity of his fuel, and it was spot on for diesel; however, it was a little cloudy, so I speculated that he had water somewhere in his fuel system and the fuel additive had forced the water into solution with his diesel fuel, which was causing the smoke. So, Bofinger, perhaps putting a gasoline-WMO blend into your fuel tank did the same thing.