Re: running on oil

Posted by Bob M on January 27, 2001 at 10:42:16 from (66.24.99.103):

In Reply to: running on oil posted by Billie T on January 27, 2001 at 07:22:07:

We had an old Fairbanks-Morse 1 cyl diesel engine in a dyno lab in college. Tried running it on a bunch of different fuels - Wesson Oil, peanut oil, safflour oil, lard oil and others I cannot recall. The diesel ran fine on all the oils, though some developed less power than others. A side discovery was some strange-smelling exhausts - when running on lard it smelled like a McDonald's kitchen exhaust...

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