Date:         Sun, 22 Aug 1999 21:43:55 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@IBM.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@IBM.NET>
Subject:      Re: Running Diesel Engines on Propane
Comments: To: Marshall Ruskin <mruskin@PANGEA.CA>
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At 18:34 8/22/99 -0500, Marshall Ruskin wrote:
>How: Put tank under rear seat - requires removal of rear heater core,
>(methinks), get conversion kit locally for gas2propane - all taxicabs here
>use propane - it works. Great national fuel distribution system, too.

I doubt that the injection pump would work with propane -- diesel fuel
isn't very lubricious, but propane is not at all, I think.


>Concern: Energy density of propane. How does this compare on a litre by
>litre basis with diesel?

Really, really REALLY bad.  I'm quite sure it's less than half by mass,
which would put it at well under one-quarter by volume.  In other words,
the fuel will cost three times as much, instead of two-thirds as
much.  Sorry...

david


David Beierl - Providence, RI
'84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
'85 GL "Poor Relation"