Re: kerosene
This is just my experience, I,m not saying you should do it! yours will probably blow up. (THis was way back when cooking oil was cheap and Derv was expensive and my miles were higher) I first ran a Rover218SLD Turbo for 2 years on straight cooking oil, it did have the odd top up with derv now and then, it was running sweet when I gave it to and ex g/f. I then bought a LWB hardtop Series 3 Diesel (W Reg) and a nice engine and vehicle. I ran that on cooking oil, kero, mixes of hydraulic oil, white spirit, you name it if i could get hold of it free it went in, and ran sweetly, in fact it ran best and quietest on greenhouse heater fuel. I kept it for 3 years and when I sold it on it was still running so sweetly I was sad to see it go. I then bought a Rover 600SDI I needed its legs as I was travelling Swindon/Guildford every weekend on the M4, I ran that car for 2 years solid (winters and all - 2 mild ones though) on Sainsbury,s cooking oil, it ran beautifully and but for the smell you,d never know it wasn,t derv, no loss of power or anything, and I used that car fast, coming back at 3/4 in the morning I was at over the ton most of the way. I then ran a VW Tdi 110 engined vehicle on the same with no ill effects. I now have a Merc 5 cyl Diesel powered Pinzgauer which one day I will up engine to a turbo, and in the run up to that if it is economical I will use cooking oil (if I can get it cheap enough) in that engine. As I said I have had no trouble at all, call me MR Lucky....yours may burn its pistons to scrap on the first day you try what I did.
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