Reminds me (and no, I am not THAT old....) of the farm tractors from
the early 1900's that would start on gas, and then switch over to
kerosene once they were warmed up.....

Howard

On 28 Aug 99, at 10:05, gmbulley wrote:

> While it has been a while since I read about them, evidently lots of
> applications use, or USED to use natural gas in compression-ignition
> motors...from pumping stations to power plants. It only requires a small
> amount of "carrier oil" to ignite the gas/air mixture. At a library book
> sale I picked up a bunch of OLD books from the 1930's-1950's on diesel
> engines and they described the above in detail.
>
> gmbulley
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:   R.Joseph Murphy [SMTP:joseppi@THE-SPA.COM]
> Sent:   Friday, August 27, 1999 10:27 AM
> To:     vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject:        Re: Running Diesel Engines on Propane
>
> Hey Folks,
>
> I believe that Freightliner is comming out next year with a duel fueled
> truck series for urban short run/ smog areas. Propane and diesel -
> something about the EPA and % of fleet requirements. So this vehical
> starts on diesel until warm then switches to propane. and of course if
> you run out of propane back to diesel to get home.
>
> joseph
>
> 85 5-cly Turbo diesel vanagon
> (with 12000 mi trip to alaska below it's belt)

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