they are one of my assignments. i travel around colorado doing warranty diagnosis and repair for truck shops.
how cute, you've learned the search function!

incorrect. does it have an air injection fuel system? does it redline under 1000rpm? is it 16ft tall? does it have a 2ton flywheel? there is no such thing as a "standard" diesel engine.

not even close. vw and IH use swirl prechambers, mb uses an actual precombustion chamber. thats why vw/ih have a large throat while mb has very small orifices.

that is an entirely different engine design.

OKAY. what do all diesels have in common? they all run a high compression (compared to your average gasser engine). they all suck air in. compress it. inject diesel. then combust... right? you cant deny that!

Darn! Then I quit smoking for the wrong reason

Why can't we just get along??? (Jack Nicholson - Mars Attacks)

A mindless Twit who must be correct every time sure can derail a fairly good subject with useless blabber and hysterical finger pointing. (Do they put Locomotive engines in trucks??)

I put in some UMO and transmission oil to get some use out of it at the last of its life. I have seen Dump truck drivers change their oil on a big road construction job where there was no place to dispose of the oil so instead of dumping it into the soil they put it in the tank and ran it out. No one ever had a problem with their engines. What is the big deal??

Those who subscribe to the hysterics of the extreme "Protect the Environment" movement make me laugh. Compare our current air quality numbers to those of the 70's and you'll see that the crowd who sees an environmental boogeyman around every corner are just that - hysterical - by both definintions (overwrought and hilarious).

As for anyone who asserts that an oil burning shop heater, burning pure WMO by dripping or squirting it into an open flame is going to be less polluting than a diesel engine atomizing and burning 5% or 10% or even 50% WMO, obviously lacks an understanding of the chemistry of hydrocarbon combustion. I'll wager it would be due to a lack of education - because anyone who has taken a single college-level chimistry course knows that is completely false.

Layback40, I don't think you have anything to worry about, despite what Lance's boy has to say, you aren't the one wracking up infractions and getting closer to getting booted every day.

FWIW, I have (note past tense) mixed just 5% WMO with red diesel and it does indeed make the fuel to dark to see the red the dye. on the other hand, a quart of ATF or a few ounces of Marvel Mystery Oil in a tank of fuel (for lubricity purposes of course) will turn regular road diesel so red that you can't tell the difference between it and off road diesel anyway.

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1984 300 Coupe TurboDiesel
Silver blue paint over navy blue interior
2nd owner & 2nd engine in an otherwise
99% original unmolested car
~210k miles on the clock

1986 Ford F250 4x4 Supercab
Charcoal & blue two tone paint over burgundy interior
Banks turbo, DRW, ZF-5 & SMF conversion
152k on the clock - actual mileage unknown

rcounts,
Thank you for your kind words.
You are very much on the money with your comment about atomization. As one increases the surface area available for a combustion reaction, the faster and more complete the reaction is. Any competent final year high school chemistry student knows that. Thats why vapor cloud & dust explosions happen.
Scare tactics & bullying are common with with self appointed "environmental experts".

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1967 230-6 auto parts car. rust bucket.
1980 300D now parts car 800k miles
1984 300D 500k miles
1987 250td 160k miles English import
2001 jeep turbo diesel 130k miles
1998 jeep tdi ~ followed me home. Needs a turbo.
1968 Ford F750 truck. 6-354 diesel conversion.
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