That's it exactly - what someone on the list said last year..

Thanks for the memory jog!

Marshall Ruskin
84 Westy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bradley Flubacher" <flubach@HOME.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2001 9:56 AM
Subject: Re: LPG diesels, anyone?

> I think the dryness might refer to the lubricating properties of the
diesel
> that are needed to keep the injection pump in good working order?
>
>
>
> Bradley Flubacher
> State College, PA
> '82 VW diesel westy
> '84 GL wasserboxer
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
> Of Andrew Grebneff
> Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2001 5:44 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: LPG diesels, anyone?
>
>
> >I asked the list about that last year, I think.
> >
> >The consensus was that it wouldn't work - because the gas is too dry - or
> >something similar.
> >
> >I don't really understand that, but I've never ran a diesel or lpg,
either.
> >
> >What I've been wondering lately is why in America, where diesel fuel is
> >often more expensive than regular fuel, people don't run regular fuel in
> >their diesels instead.
> >
> >There must be a good reason.
>
>
> Well, it is working in Australia... and how can dryness affect a diesel
> more than a gasoline engine, which is basically identical in design?
>
> I guess a diesel COULD be made to run on gasoline (I've thought about this
> also, very briefly), but compression ratio would need to be dropped way
> down. But it may be that the compression-ignition point is inevitably too
> soon, causing loss of power and premature preignition damage. In diesels,
> of course, the timing of ignition is entirely a function of the
compression
> ratio and flashpoint of the fuel used. EFI injection-timing will not alter
> ignition timing in a diesel.
>
> Do the late (A4) VW diesels use a centrifugal oilfilter?
>
> Andrew Grebneff
> 165 Evans St, Dunedin, New Zealand
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