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Posted by Tyler(WA) on March 01, 2000 at 06:37:42 from (12.13.226.11):
In Reply to: Re: DISTILLATE??? posted by John on March 01, 2000 at 00:34:09:
It's amazing what you can run an engine on. Last summer, I mistook diesel for my chainsaw gas and ran a full tank through before I realized what was wrong. About the only symptoms were that it smoked a little more and ran a little rough at idle. It cut just fine. I was concerned that it might not have lubricated enough but it looks like no harm was done. I believe I could have adjusted the carb settings and smoothed it out. During WWII, my uncle ran his truck on "distillate". He had a small can of gas, that he would switch the line to for start-up, then switch to a kero/heating oil mixture to run on. Same symptoms... smokey, but it ran.
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