Peter Frederick wrote:
PIddling about at low speed carbons things up pretty badly on a 601,
and a full throttle run will blow out all the loose stuff, pretty
spectacular if it's been a while. Most of it is probably loose soot in
the exhaust.
My personal "tonic" these days is some contaminated fuel I add a quart
or so of per tank -- one of my colleague's wife filled her car up with
diesel fuel a couple years ago, so he was stuck with the ten gallons or
so of gasoline with diesel in it. Not enough to prevent the car from
running (poorly!), and it burns in the lawn mowers, but not well
(carbon fouls the plugs, smokes). A bit in a full tank of fuel and the
300D just purrs!
The one benefit of filling your diesel's tank with a few gallons of
gasoline is that it sure cleans out the fuel system and injection pump!!
Not good to do it often, but a shot every few years is likely to do some
good and is unlikely to cause much harm.
Personally, I prefer a qt of conventional 10W-30 oil.
Marshall
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Marshall Booth (who doesn't respond to unsigned questions)
"der Dieseling Doktor" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
'87 300TD 182Kmi, '85 190D 2.0 161Kmi, '87 190D 2.5 turbo 237kmi, '84
190D 2.2 229Kmi (retired)
