Date:         Tue, 16 Mar 2004 01:51:38 -0600
Reply-To:     John Rodgers <jh_rodgers@BELLSOUTH.NET>
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From:         John Rodgers <jh_rodgers@BELLSOUTH.NET>
Subject:      Re: " you fixed it with what?!"
Comments: To: Joel Walker <jwalker17@EARTHLINK.NET>
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There was a guy in Alaska that for a few years drove a Rabbit diesel
using discarded cooking oil. He would collect it, filter it, then add
15% kerosene. Never did hear the long term results of running the engine
on this stuff, but he was around for quite a while.

I'm not sure but what used motor oil, with something like kerosene
added, then filtered to remove solids wouldn't work just fine. Prol'ly
be a real smoker though.

Regards,

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver
Joel Walker wrote:

>for you diesel folks, something you might want to check on ...
>
>
>i dimly recall that one of the vw magazines took a diesel rabbit down
>into mexico. only trouble was, they couldn't find any diesel fuel at
>the stations when they started running low. so someone, possibly a
>local who had btdt, suggested using gasoline with a lot of motor oil
>mixed in.
>
>so they filled up the tank with gasoline, adding (i think) one quart
>of 30w motor oil for every five gallons of gas. and drove it back
>across the border. they mentioned that they changed the oil very
>quickly after getting home. :)
>
>it's the 1qt-to-5gallons that i'm not sure of ... might have been more
>oil than that. but i remember thinking that was a pretty neat trick to
>keep moving in a diesel. :)
>
>joel
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