Re: looking for a new car
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Originally Posted by paulyoung666
well then it should be white , mind you it aint g'teed to be , i would be careful , getting caught with red in your tank is going to be painful ;) , and even if you have a tank of white they can tell you have been using red :disturbd: :disturbd: :disturbd:
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One of the guys I worked with used domestic central heating fuel, it's exactly the same as diesel but doesn't contain the added heavy oil ingredient. If you used it neat it would wreck the engine because it lacks the necessary lubricant, he used to measure the viscosity with a viscosity cup of normal diesel and then keep adding normal engine oil to heating fuel and measure the viscosity until they were the same. He could then work out the amount of engine oil required for x amount of central heating fuel. He said he had to do this for each delivery of fuel because grades varied so much, he was running with it for a couple of years and clocked up over 30K without any adverse affects. (the car had done over 130K by the time he got rid of it) He lives in a rural are and stopped the process when the authorities started dipping tanks in his area to check for farmers using it in their cars. He says its undetectable but was afraid to take the risk. He now has a modern diesel and is a bit more worried about the injectors and engin management.
He has done some wierd and wonderfull things and is a very clever guy, he once tapped his inlet manifold and regulated LPG in to see if it worked, and he said it was a success. He said the downside was carrying the Propane bottle on the back seat of his fiat 126 was dangerous and a bit of a pain. |
