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towpro
Nov 15, 2017Explorer
I used to maintain a fleet of trucks that ran on Propane, and had a conversion in an olds Delta 88 myself that was dual fuel.
It does take more propane than gasoline to go the same distance. in fact its about
20% more propane.
But propane runs so much cleaner. And since you don't need to atomize propane to get it to burn you can run your idle lower
But propane was harder to start in the dead of winter. In my Olds conversion I would have to switch over to gas when parking it so I could get it to start the next morning.
It does take more propane than gasoline to go the same distance. in fact its about
20% more propane.
But propane runs so much cleaner. And since you don't need to atomize propane to get it to burn you can run your idle lower
But propane was harder to start in the dead of winter. In my Olds conversion I would have to switch over to gas when parking it so I could get it to start the next morning.
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