Petrol contaminated with diesel

Nope. Lots squirt it into the inlet manifold I think.

Ah. always find someone who knows more..looks like I was half right. Neither the inlet nor the cylinder..

I was actually thinking of an ancient tractor..wheer the glow plug was in the inlet manifold, and the only way to start it sometimes was to open that up, and pour a cupful of diesel into it, and then if that didnt catch fire, shove a rag in it and light it..I cant remember if that had direct injection or not..

Model aircraft diesels use no injectors at all..but do require ether in the mix to ignite it.

Not much use that. For the fuel to get from there to the combustion chamber the valve would have to be open. And with a valve open no compression.

practical purposes. The idea being to make the engine less harsh - or more like a petrol one - for car etc use. But the most efficient designs stayed with direct injection.

Sure it wasn't a paraffin burning type? They are more akin to a petrol engine.

And are horrendous, efficiency wise. Diesel of course refers to a compression ignition engine - which may or may not run on diesel.

Just to say that I cut my grass this afternoon using the contaminated fuel. B & S 12 hp engine, no problems and I didn't actually notice anything different.

I don't think I will be using it in the strimmer though. That uses so little petrol compared to the lawnmower anyway and I don't know whether the diesel would be an adequate substitute for 2 stroke oil or whether I would need to add that to the mix as well.

Many thanks to all who proffered advice.

Hence the puff of smoke when you floor a diseasel. The turbo does nothing for a bit...

Now if they designed the exhaust so the driver could see the smoke, perhaps more of them would push down slowly?

Andy

I can't point at anything, but I thought that last time I bought a car almost no diesels used direct injection. That's over 10 years ago though, and things may have changed.

Andy