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johnniep:
the scinaro was that we were towing with our ranbgie with the perkins 6354 disel in it, we were towing our rangie trialer on behind and we had a whole tank of this 50/50 disel petrol mix, and it boiled once going 40mles there and 3 times on the way back, did the head gasket and it still boiled so then in the end found a recon head and did it and now its fine, but i would of thought that especially the perkins would have delt with the fule a bit better concidering it being a bigger simpler engine, never mind,
cheers
johnnie p
TUFFTEE:
When i used to Truck to Moscow all year round back in the 80's In the wintertime i used to run the truck at 10% petrol to 90% diesel to stop my tank from freezing! So i think you would be oK As long as you add that wheelie Bin of fuel at those percentages!
regards.........
thermidorthelobster:
In some very cold parts of the world people run up to 40% petrol to stop diesels from waxing up. However, I'm pretty sure these are industrial-sized, bomb-proof truck engines from very agricultural vehicles, not modern electronically controlled engines.
I stuck a fiver's worth of Unleaded in the TD5 the other day before noticing; I've since run the tank through (so about 7% petrol overall) without any obvious harm. But from what others have said, it looks like anything much greater than this would not be a good idea.
littlepow:
Don't think keeping it in a wheelie bin is good though, wrong type of plastic for fuel storage.
If you don't want to use it, then any armoured devision in the arm forces will dispose of it for free for you.
Priglet:
I'd be out getting some decent containers to store the fuel in because as well as being a fire risk you're breaking the law. To comply with the law you may also need to get friends to store some of the fuel as you can only have 20 litres stored.
http://www.fireservice.co.uk/safety/fuelstorage.php
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