[Vwdiesel] Sometimes life sucks!

[Harmon Seaver]

Ouch! I know the military converted their "mulitfuel" trucks to diesel only
because they were blowing a lot of head gaskets from the diesel/gasoline
mixture. The injection pump on those had a viscosity detector which changed the
ijection timing (or pressure, or both, can't remember which) according to how
much gasoline was mixed in the diesel. This was supposed to be for emergency use
only, but they used quite a bit, around 33% gas, IIRC.


On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 10:37:49PM -0400, LBaird119 at aol.com wrote:
>   My daughter and I went to finish (partly finish it turned out again) a
> job in Seattle.  Afterwards, colds and all, we headed on over to the
> ocean for a couple nights rest doing NOTHING but mowing the lawn
> and stoking the fire.  :)  Weather was beautiful if a little cool and we
> just vegetated except for having mild colds.
>   Then we get a phone call that my son was trying to be helpful and
> put $10 worth of unleaded in my Rabbit!  In addition, it has a burned
> out alt. light so you really have to rev it most of the time, to get it to
> charge.  You have to listen for the whine in the radio.  He'd been
> having trouble with starting it, since he never seemed to bother to
> wind it out until it was charging.  Then he drove it with the gas in it
> until it started running poorly and lost power.  :(  I was called back
> and reassured that it was purring smoothly after Dad had put a gallon
> of oil and half a gallon of diesel in it.
>   I get home and am told it still won't start!  It helps if the battery
> charger is TURNED ON or at least put to 10A rather than 1.5A.  So
> my battery was almost stone dead.  I charged it up and it barely started.
> It sputtered, smoked and wouldn't get above about 1200 rpm.  I went and
> put some load on it to clear it out a little.  It has no power, won't wind
> out, sputters like heck and even died while idling and won't hardly restart.
> :(
> I don't have time to drain, refill, maybe change injectors, pump.  <Sigh>
> To top it off it's been a little low on coolant and I'm just hoping it wasn't
> enough to let it get too hot through all this.
>   I guess it doesn't pay to take a little time off.  I guess I'll go throw
> the bolts
> back in the turbo clamps of the Jetta and swap the insurance over and
> just park the Rabbit for now.
>     Loren (bummed)
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