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Bucyrus Erie BullGrader No. 53226
Note the two sides of the engine of this rig. No, this is not a trick photo set!
(Searching for a conversation I had with my father about five years ago, when he took pics of a rig in Alamo, NV. Ah, here it is 
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quote:2-7-2000
Re: Bucyrus Erie
> > era 1945
> >
> > Gasoline or Diesel ?
>
> This is _really_ weird! It sure looks like a diesel on
> one side, and it has a distributor on the other. Weird.
Well, ----- it was a loaded question.
It actually is ---> BOTH
The gas tank looks like it could hold about 1/2 gallon
The diesel tank looks like 15 / 20 gallons possibly
The idea is that you start it on gasoline and warm it up
and then switch over to diesel to use for loads.
While the injection pump has failed, it does start and will
move around ( I am told ) on gasoline, but does not have
enough power to do any work. It was driven to the
site you see in the three pictures -- in Alamo, NV
I thought you would appreciate this bit of trivia
part of the floral and fauna of Alamo
> [later]
> It was a possibility that I'd considered,
> but I was having trouble figuring out a
> compression ratio that would allow a
> diesel (min. 18:1, as far as I know)
> and a gas engine (max about 14:1) run
> with the same mechanicals. This sort of
> arrangement used to be fairly
> common for dual-fuel small engines in
> the east: start up on gasoline, switch
> over to kerosene, but in that case the
> compression has to be _lowered_ to
> work. B&S had a service bulletin about
> it, to install TWO head gaskets for
> proper operation.
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Regards,
Al S.
NissanDiesel
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1999 E300 (W210, OM606.962 turbodiesel), green.
1975 W115 300D (sold 1998)
1982/1981/1983 Nissan Maxima diesels w/LD28 Six (all sold)
1983 Nissan Sentra diesel CD17 (gave away in 2010)
Many 1981-82 Nissan 720 diesel pickups SD22 (all gone)
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