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โMar-12-2014 03:00 PM
skipnchar wrote:
Diesel engines have always ran perfectly well on gasoline but gasoline didn't have the necessary lubricants found in diesel fuel. This is likely still true so SOME sort of additive would still be required.
โMar-12-2014 12:04 PM
hone eagle wrote:mccsix wrote:
Talking about diesel exhaust smell being a thing of the past. If you ever park around a DP that has the EPA compliant DEF system in it you wont smell a thing, absolutely no exhaust odor at all and only h2o dripping out of the pipe.
I always notice a very strong bleach smell.
โMar-12-2014 10:25 AM
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โMar-11-2014 08:35 PM
BillMFl wrote:
Well I made the mistake of putting half a tank of gas in my F350 diesel. Got back on I75 and the truck started running VERY rough. Got of onto secondary roads and drove about 100 miles home. Next morning went to my Ford dealer and they laughed and said welcome to the club. Seems lots of folks make this mistake. They drained the fuel tank and refilled with diesel and the truck ran like new. No damage. It ran rough and smelled really bad from the mixture.
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โMar-11-2014 07:27 PM
โMar-11-2014 06:36 PM
mccsix wrote:
Talking about diesel exhaust smell being a thing of the past. If you ever park around a DP that has the EPA compliant DEF system in it you wont smell a thing, absolutely no exhaust odor at all and only h2o dripping out of the pipe.
โMar-11-2014 06:32 PM
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โMar-11-2014 11:04 AM
rgatijnet1 wrote:Yes and no. It really depends on the engine. Up until very recently, a gas fuel injected engine sprayed the fuel at the top of the intake valve, which cooled the valve, heated the gas and mixed with air in preparation to go into the cylinder. Some modern gas engines have gone to direct injection, meaning fuel is sprayed directly into the cylinder. The purpose of this is so the fuel can be timed to prevent detonation. They don't put the fuel in till the last (micro)second, so the fuel does not have time to heat up and ignite prematurely. This allows for higher compression ratios, which helps efficiency. Its only the latest generation of designs that use this feature. Obviously to do direct injection requires much higher pressure and a much better injector. In contrast diesel has been direct injection with timed injectors since the 80s.
Is there a huge difference between the electric fuel injection used in most current gasoline engines and the mechanical injection pumps used in a diesel?
I would guess that with the new computer controlled engines that there are more similarities than there are differences.
โMar-11-2014 07:35 AM
msmith1199 wrote:
So if you ran gas in a regular diesel engine what would the result be? I had been told that since gas was more flammable than diesel that it could severely damage the engine. Is that not true?
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