From: everette (194cbteng@bellsouth.net)
Date: Mon Jul 05 2004 - 09:48:52 PDT
someone wrote
"Not to be a smart aleck, but how hard is it to smell it before pouring it
in? ""
Not very hard, if you tried however;;
Let me add this to conversation - some years back my son was driving pickup
truck with two fuel tanks, he never buys more fuel than it takes to get
where he is going. He called me one evening -out of gas- he was here in
town so I took my truck to where was, took 2 1/2 gallon gasoline container
out of my truck and poured in his truck, it started but ran rough so we
traded trucks until I could determine problem was. Next morning I
determined I had poured kerosene and not gasoline, (no I did not smell it).
I went to service station filled other tank with gasoline and when I started
a trip on highway after I got going I switched to kerosene and other than
loosing about 10 mph suffered no ill effects.
Back in the early 50's we poor country boys did this a lot, gasoline was 25
cents a gallon and kerosene was five or 10 - purchase 5 gallons gasoline
pour 1/2 in tank, drive until engine reaches operating temperature pour in
kerosene - be sure to only pour enough in so that you can use it all up
before you turn engine off, when all kerosene is consumed then pour in other
half can of gasoline - none of has cars newer than about 49-50, compression
ratios were low, and we never had engine problems traceable to fuel.
I also was there when a friend of mine poured 5 gallon gasoline in tank of
his diesel truck, he filled the tank with diesel, made a total of about 40
gallons, drove truck in normal manner without problems.
I do remember reading that on MV's they give a formula for adding oil to
gasoline on multifuel engines, and seems like there is something about
adding gasoline to oil, and gear lube.
Everette
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