[Vwdiesel] Diesel working on liquid propane

[Stephen Kraus]

Actually it might have been burning out carbon deposits

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:56 PM, <LBaird119 at aol.com> wrote:

> In a message dated 10/13/2010 11:28:13 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> r.c.brown at ieee.org writes:
>
> > Yes, similar effect, but there is a limit to how much diesel you can dump
> > in there before
> > it stops burning completely and makes so much soot that it clogs up the
> > combustion chamber
> > and exhaust valves.  So adding a cleaner burning fuel like propane lets
> > you get closer to
> > fully using up the oxygen in the cylinder w/o the adverse affects of soot
> > formation.
> >
>
>  While I was testing, I tried cranking the propane way up.  I had enough
> going
> in that I could let off the throttle and maintain speed.  I could turn it
> up more
> and crank out black smoke.  There wasn't much diesel going in at that
> point.
> Made me think the propane could be made to burn just as black as diesel, or
>
> close anyway...
>     Loren
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