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  1. nf6x

    ATF red dye?

    If the government sold you a knife with the blood of a murder victim on it, you still don't want to get caught with that bloody knife in your possession. If you legitimately buy a government truck with traces of dye in the tank and/or filters but you only buy taxed fuel for it, and then you get...
  2. nf6x

    ATF red dye?

    I found a reference to an actual lab test of ATF at this address: ?dye in atf? - Dodge Diesel - Diesel Truck Resource Forums Of particular interest: So this tells me: ATF and farm diesel use the same red dye: red 164 Dye concentration in ATF is much higher than in farm diesel I don't...
  3. nf6x

    ATF red dye?

    I don't see any legal distinction between running a multifuel on ATF for on-road use vs. running a pickup on farm diesel for on-road use. Both are examples of the exact same violation: Tax evasion. I'm not saying that either should be OK or that either should be restricted. I'm just saying that...
  4. nf6x

    ATF red dye?

    So you would burn untaxed fuel (waste ATF) in your own vehicle if you had access to it, but you report somebody else doing that to the authorities?
  5. nf6x

    ATF red dye?

    I picked up an M35A2C several years ago from March ARB (back when they still had DRMO/GL sales there) that had red fuel in the tank. The fuel in my most recent purchases (M923 and M936A1 out of Barstow) looks clear yellow through the filler cap, but I should check it more carefully. I have new...
  6. nf6x

    ATF red dye?

    I doubt that adding green dye will work. It might make the fuel look like some color other than red to the naked eye, but if they send a sample to a lab and run a spectrograph plot, the red and green dyes will show up as distinct spikes. I also don't see what grounds the OP's friend has to...
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