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Thrasher:
Petrol in diesel yes .... but not the other way around....

Xtremeteam:

--- Quote from: "Thrasher" ---Petrol in diesel yes .... but not the other way around....
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i have done the other way round intentionally,


well when some1 offers 105 litres of "slighty" contaminated super it would be rude to say no,specially for running the racer on,makes it a bit smokey though

Sider:

--- Quote from: "Thrasher" ---Petrol in diesel yes .... but not the other way around....
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All you'll get is an slightly abnormal acumulation of carbon in the plugs, other than that, a bit of smoke, couple of coughs and puffs, and a wee decline in performance.

However, the engine will not have problems with lubrication :D

I have never been able to discover at what point the mixture is too rich in diesel to stop the engine running, but one of our foremen once run his 1.4 Ford Escort with at least 40% diesel on the tank. It was a good laugh. :D

Hissy:
The chap at Landrover told me that the injector pump has a special lubricating grease which is dissolved by petrol.
He was changing fuel pump, injector pump, fuel tank, fuel filter,injectors,
pipework and anything else he could get his hands on.
The bill.... In excess of £5000 :shock:  :shock:  :shock:

hobbit:

--- Quote from: "dew1911" ---Apparently, so probobly wrong, but I remember hearing from somewhere that putting a small concentration of Petrol into a Diesel engine can actually do the engine good. I can't remember how, but It seems to stick.

But I'm known to speak garbage, so why should this be any differant.
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Yes or kerosene, its also what we used to do while in very cold climates with the diesels, funnily enough I had an email from someone in norway and he has waxed diesel in the vehicle that I helped get over there for him

("so i have not had much time with the land rover. it has been verry cold for a
long period, -15 degrees celsius, down to -25 at some nights. so i have cheack
the cooling/engine so that it would not freeze, so i have had that under
controll. the diesel has frozzen thow, we use kerrosene (?) in our diesel in
wintertime, so i has not been able to start engine for a while. have change
fuel filter and aired the system with no luck. will have a diesel friend to
have a look at it when i get it home, hopefully before this weekend.")

In normal uk conditions obviously there is not much of a worry but even in germany the weather can regularly drop in the minus 10s for weeks at a time, being a land locked country in main

In the 70s uk diesel started freezing, waxing to be more accurate, they then started adding some additive in the 80s not sure what the level is now, but it must be round -10 at a guess for the uk

But it was not low enough for that guy's landy up in Norway though, as that was uk diesel in the tank

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