Guess what my LA can run on.

Walt Davies · Jul 19, 2008

I was in a hurry last weekend and grabbed a can of gas (well not exactly) put 6 gallons in the Old case LA and it wouldn't run without choking and then it ran awful smoked terrible. I let it sit all week and yesterday I took at at it to see what was wrong. I thought that I would run the main jet out and see if it was clogged. Darn thing started running pretty good with the needle all the way out.
I checked and what i did was dump six gallons of diesel in it. Darn i need to get different colored cans for diesel.
Walt

Anonymous-0 · Jul 19, 2008

So now you got fouled out plugs and will soon have lots of unburned diesel in your oil pan thinning out the lubricating quality of oil between bearings so you get to do a early oil and filter change needed or not. Have the fuel delivery guy do that to you putting diesel in gas tanks in middle of harvest grrrrrrrr. Had to change oil and put carb kits in 4 trucks, jeep and lawnmower was not funny!

Mark · Jul 19, 2008

Walt,

that ain"t nothin"!

So will a "66 Pontiac 389! Many moons ago, my old car was about out of gas and I grabbed a full 5 gallon can sitting in the garage....turned out to be Kerosene. I might have had 2 gallons of gas left in the car.....that diluted it a little. Car smoked like hell.....but I drove it anyway. I never changed the plugs or the oil either. I just bought more gas when the gauge was close to empty. You"d be surprised at what a gasoline engine will run on.....especially after it"s warmed up.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 19, 2008

your Lucky You didn't put gas in Your Diesel Definite NNO_NO,,,Ran Kerosene in My Sc , Got The job Done by keeping her at full throttle , Same type of mistake like Walt did,,had to clean the plugs afterward ,,

moonlite 37 · Jul 19, 2008

On a military convoy one of our fellows poured a five gallon can of diesel fuel in a M-880 (dodge 3/4 with 318 engine). It detonated badly and 150 miles later the engine was beat to pieces. The old LA had a lower compression ratio amd you had some gasoline in the tank contributed to it burning.

Nikolas Britton · Jul 20, 2008

I'd like to try E85 in mine. Anyone try this yet?

MarkB_MI · Jul 20, 2008

I imagine your LA has pretty low compression and you probably didn't work it too hard. Diesel has relatively low octane and cause detonation in a high compression engine. There have been a number of cases where recip aircraft engines were destroyed because they were accidentally fueled with Jet A rather than avgas.

chuck craig in Socal · Jul 20, 2008

I remember during WWII we had a 29 chev truck with a cutdown frame. used as a tractor. started it on gas and switched to coal oil {kerosene}. Ran good,cooler and never missed a beat. No issues with spark plugs. The good old days. 11cents a gal for gas 9 for coal oil. CC

TripleRange · Jul 20, 2008

Mark, Diesel engines have higher compression ratios than gas engines...not lower.

Diesel fuel burns slower than gasoline. If an engine has enough valve overlap...shouldn't hurt it...but I would think that an awful lot of black smoke and fouled plugs would result.

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