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- From: nall@sun8.scri.fsu.edu (John Nall)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Gasoline in diesel engines....
- Message-ID: <10366@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 18:52:24 GMT
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- Organization: SCRI, Florida State University
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- Scary title, huh? Well, it scared me, too, when my wife told
- me that she went tooling off in my diesel-powered car and when
- she stopped to fill it up at the gas station, she started to
- put gasoline in instead of diesel fuel. Her car, of course,
- is gas powered, and she hardly ever drives mine.
-
- Luckily, she smelled the diesel fuel when she took off the
- cap, said "whoa!" and did the right thing.
-
- But....I was wondering....what would have happened had she
- done so? My intuition says "nothing good", but is that right?
- Would it just not run? Blow up? Run better? What?
- (Yes, I know the theory behind diesel engines. Squirting in
- the oil, high compression, etc. I just don't know what the
- chemistry is when gasoline is compressed rather than diesel).
-
- John
-
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- John W. Nall | Supercomputer Computations Research Institute
- nall@mailer.scri.fsu.edu | Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306
- "Busted flat in Baton Rouge, waiting fer a train......" - Damnit, Janis,
- I can forgive the drugs and the sex, but not your dying so early!!
-