[Vwdiesel] Jet A

[Tad]

I'd be most concerned about damaging the injection pump due to lack of fuel
lubricity.  That, and the taxman. :)

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Justin Bennett <lug1970 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Going to pass on some info concerning Jet A in TDIs.  Have ran about 25
> gallons mixed in various ratios thru my 98 Jetta.  Two things I noticed was
> that there was a noticeable decrease in fuel economy and a change in the way
> it started.  It wasn't as rattly on start and didn't seem to start as
> quickly.  Since I was fueling out of 5 gallon jugs I do not have a hard
> number on what the decrease was.  It was like running super winter blend
> fuel.  Here is the specific gravity numbers from the back of the Biobore JF
> jug.
>
> JP4     6.363 lbs/gal
> Jet A   6.714lbs/gal
> #1 D    6.827lbs/gal
> #2 D    7.060lbs/gal
>
> On certain turbine engines there is an adjustment for specific gravity so
> if you were running a different weight of fuel you could change fuel
> scheduling to make it run better.  Wonder if there is a way to do that on
> the TDI engines.
> Justin
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