Ford's answers to the NHTSA 6.7 Investigation
There was a request for a link to Ford's answer's to the NHTSA investigation posted on a previous thread, since closed. Here is the link: Ford's NHTSA Answers to the 6.7 investigation This PDF i...
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BenK wrote:
Yes, and wonder out loud what the 'spot' temperature is at the cam/follower
surface?
Betcha it is way up there...
All that is missing are trace amounts of sulfur, along with free O2's. The
PSI's & temps can make some very nasty acids...
All being churned by the cam and follower and another betcha that there is
electrical current running amok between parts inside the cavity
Take a refresher course on how biodiesel is chemically made... methoxide, sodium or potassium hydroxide in the form of lye and methanol being blended, to strp the glycerine backbone/fatty acids off the vegetable oil, to be replaced with methanol alcohol. What acts as the catalyst for this chemical reaction? What would be the residuals left in biodiesel? What happens when you wash the fuel with water to remove the excess residual methanol? What happens when the fuel is improperly dried completely, which takes a lot of heating to drive the moisture out, making it cost ineffective? :S Is not methanol a free source of oxygen in your fuel? What about residual catalyst left in your biodiesel... what kind of catalyst is it inside your high pressure fuel pump for other undesireable chemical reactions taking place? I am asking, I don't know the answers, nor am I implying that there is a good answer.
