My Dad was down on diesels since the '70s when one of his chowderhead drinking buddies ran his diesel pickup (probably a GM350) out of fuel and used gasoline instead even though kerosene was available. Apparently they got just a few miles before the engine refused to go any farther.
My MB's have started to change his mind. -Curt Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 19:22:32 -0600 From: Dieselhead <126die...@gmail.com> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] mixing diesel and gasoline Message-ID: <a062408aacaf49c7c33ff@[192.168.1.53]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" The old tale about never have gasoline around Diesel was true for American Diesels built before 1975 or so. They did not not explode, but they would blow the head bolts loose, and if you ever hears a vw with loose heads in the 70s, multiply that by the ratio of the displacement difference (1600CC vs___) and you can imagine the racket made people say it was a violent explosion. Our MBs, as Clay pointed out, are stronger, and can be successfully run on up to 25% petrol/Benzin/gasoline successfully. (iron heads only) The guy who used to do IP and nozzle work for me had seen many Diesels with the heads loosened by gasoline, and he would not allow a drop of gasoline near his shop. Not even to clean parts. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
