Diesel engines running gas.

Submitted: Monday, May 05, 2003 at 22:22
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Here's a good one for you diesel gurus. Have just come back from a weekend at Landcruiser Park Mountian at Jimna in QLD (first time there). I noticed a diesel 4by in one of the events with a LPG cyclinder under his tray. The announcer for the race made the comment about this bloke running gas with his turbo diesel saying he gets better performance and economy. I made a visit to the promoters tent site to enquire about this new concept (to me anyway). The bloke told me that running gas in a diesel engine prolongs its life by reducing carbon build up in the cyclinder bores and a cooler runing engine. He said that I could expect on my Patrol 3lt TD a saving of fuel of between 13 to 15 cents a litre. The installation cost is $3000 and would recoup that cost in around 18 months from the savings I would make on buying fuel.
Has anyone ever heard of this idea? The sales bloke reckons this concept has been around for many years, but mainly used on bigger diesel engines such as buses and prime movers.
If anyone does have this set-up, how do you find it.?.
And here I was thinking diesel engines only run on diesel (give myself a slap around the dial)
Relaxed
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