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- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: mixing diesel and super unleaded to improve compression troubles?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.174628.14136@gtephx.UUCP>
- From: rakoczynskij@gtephx.UUCP (Jurek Rakoczynski)
- Date: 4 Sep 92 17:46:28 GMT
- References: <95311@bu.edu>
- Distribution: usa
- Organization: AG Communication Systems, Phoenix, Arizona
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- In article <95311@bu.edu>, vida@bu-geo.bu.edu (Vida Jakabhazy) writes:
- >
- > My husband and I just purchased a '76 2002 in San Fran to replace one that was
- > recently totalled by a moron. It was determined readily during the pre-sale
- > inspection that the fourth cylinder was running at half-compression. We
- > purchased it with the knowledge that we'd need to have work done on the car in
- > Seattle before my husband drove it across the country at the end of our
- > vacation.
- >
- > As we made our way up to Seattle, we were told by mechanics all sorts of
- > temporary remedies for running on only 3 and a 1/2 cylinders, the oddest of
- > which was to fill the tank 2/3sful with super unleaded and top off the last
- > third with diesel [personally, the opposite seems easier ;-)]. We were told
- > that the diesel would serve to coat and cool the engine, among other things.
- > Does this sound kosher to anyone out there? I'm back in Boston and my husband
- > is on the road, so I'd be interested in getting word back to him if this
- > proves to be sound practice.
-
- I'm not sure I would run that much diesel, but about 1 gal diesel I'd
- feel OK. I guess he's trying to seal the piston rings or valve seats
- with the oil.
-
- I had an oil burner many years ago where 1 qt 2 cycle oil (or was that
- regular motor oil I used?) in ~15 gal gasoline would reduce oil
- burning from 1 qt in 60 miles to 1 qt in 300 miles.
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