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MB manual says no more than 50% kerosene, and only in cold weather. Sorry, but it will eat your injection pump from lack of lubricity if you run it straight, and will result in a serious power loss due to lack of density (its lighter per gallon). You will also have starting problems due to the lower viscosity and greater leak-back in the pump plungers.
These are the same resons you cannot run gasoline in an MB diesel -- short term it works fine except for low power and possibly excess heat of combustion, but it is nearly impossible to get the car started once the pump is full of gasoline.
Peter
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1972 220D ?? miles
1988 300E 200,012
1987 300D Turbo killed 9/25/07, 275,000 miles
1985 Volvo 740 GLE Turobodiesel 218,000
1972 280 SE 4.5 165, 000 - It runs!
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