a friend of mine was telling me that he's heard of a diesel having spark plugs
i think it's on an american car don't know
which throught
is he full of it or what

Ask him if it's the type that need frequency grease and if they're installed near the muffler bearings.

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DJ


84 300D Turbodiesel 190K with 4 speed manual sold in 03/2012

You have to rent a SKy Hook to get them out of your car....

I heard they used Johson bearings on the bullshaft to improve the mileage.

Early, early diesels had a "hot bulb" that created the fuel/air ignition instead of using high compression ratios. But that's about all I've ever heard of.

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past MB rides:
'68 220D
'68 220D(another one)
'67 230
'84 SD
Current rides:
'06 Lexus RX330
'93 Ford F-250
'96 Corvette
'99 Polaris 700 RMK sled
2011 Polaris Assault
'86 Yamaha TT350(good 'ol thumper)

Spark plugs in the diesel forum.

Tangent,

I don't mean to burst the humorus bubble of the other guys on this board but many older Diesels had spark plugs. By older Diesels I mean industrial engines from the 20's to the 60's. Check industrial museums and junkyards with old construction machinery in them.
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These engines either had gasoline 'pony' starting engines on them or they strated on gasoline and then switched over to Diesel or kerosine. In the latter case the engine would have had spark plugs. I remember seeing Diesel engines in which you had to light small wooden 'punks' and put them in special holders on the engine. This acted like a modern glow plug. Hence the name.

An engine that starts on gasoline and then switches over to diesel or kerosene is not a diesel engine. I'd call it a gasoline diesel hybrid. Diesel engines by definition are compression ignition engines, i.e. no spark plugs.

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2004 VW Jetta TDI (manual)

Past MB's: '96 E300D, '83 240D, '82 300D, '87 300D, '87 420SEL

The Diesel engines I am refering to are Diesels in the fullest sense of the word since they operate using a Diesel cycle in their normal running mode. The fact that one has to push start a gasoline engine does not mean it is not an Otto cycle engine. Starting a Diesel engine with a pull rope does not mean that it is not a Diesel cycle engine.

I saw a device that was basically a flame thrower that was used to preheat some old diesel engine. It had a coil and spark plug to ignite it. Don't know what the engine was, I was under the impression it was from a truck or earthmover.

Very old Detroit Diesels had spark plugs. I was getting a new head for a 16v92 at Stewart & Stevenson in Galveston (I think) many years ago and there was an ancient shrimper in buying spark plugs for his equally ancient boat. I waited till he had left before I asked the parts man about the purchase. He told me that some of the old Detroits (or whatever their name was way back then) in the from the 30's had spark plugs to help them get started.

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Mike Tangas
'73 280SEL 4.5 (9/72)- RIP
Only 8,173 units built from 5/71 thru 11/72

'02 CLK320 Cabriolet - wifey's mid-life crisis

2012 VW Jetta Sportwagon TDI...at least its a diesel

Non illegitemae carborundum.

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 isendquote

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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)

i believe the tractor pictured is an international td6 with a
bucyrus erie dozer attachment. usually these tractors were
red which inproved thier proformance.

don

I know very little about these vintage offroad rigs -- I'm willing to take your word for it, esp. because the 'dozer attachment has the BE plate on it, not the chassis.

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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)

Does a bulldozer get it's name from being a machine that allowed the beast of burden some time off?

Sixto
95 S420
87 300SDL