Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 09:23:47 -0700
Reply-To: Mike Blotz <Mike.Blotz@PEARLIZUMI.COM>
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From: Mike Blotz <Mike.Blotz@PEARLIZUMI.COM>
Subject: Re: " you fixed it with what?!"
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but america is about the only country in the world where we rely on gasoline more so than diesel!--so that sounds alil fishy to me. I for one am planning a tierra del fuego trip--and diesel is on my list of wants for vehicle support (although it looks like the subi syncro is gonna be the one). I'm a big bio-diesel advocate though. actually have some friends over in india right now who are importing a diesel royal enfield motorcycle if all goes well. diesel will run on what ever kind of crap you put in em as long as there are no big particles flooating around.
gotta remember rudolf diesel originally designed his motor to run on peanut oil. for some strange reason he disappeared on his way to america with his invention (think that is right). hmm--almost sounds like some kind of oil company/government conspiracy dont it--better shut up now.
but yes--VW does frown on running bio-diesel or pure vegetable oil--they dont ever really have to know do they? as much as i like bio-diesel--I'm leaning more towards pour vege oil--all you do is dump it in and your ready to roll
now--if we could just get the visions of really poorly designed 80's american black smoke billowing diesels ou tof everyones heads and let them see that diesels really can be clean burning machines. not much has changed here--does anyone really need a 7.3L diesel to get grocery's with?
ok--quiet now
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