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Diesel Engines was someone running my engine on paraffin?

I think paraffin is more similar to petrol than diesel. In the past it has been used as an anti-waxing agent in diesel engines.

But ... paraffin is illegal as a road fuel so perhaps you'd better hope oyu don't get dipped by the nice people from C&E :eek:
 
I have seen military vehicles run on AVGAS or AVTUR (can't remember which is closest to parafin, Cannonball Bob?). It was on an ex in about 2000, all vehicles were run on it and their performance was rubbish. However, they still ran.

Nige
 
nobber said:
Ive just taken off my old fuel filter and it was full off paraffin.
can 19j's run on paraffin?
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Yes, they can be an absolute sod to start, performance will be down and there will be a bit more smoke out of the exhaust, the only downside is pump lubrication, as far as i know the lube qualities of paraffin are very limited.........keith
 
Central heating oil Kerosene or summat? Biodiesel has an olive oil type smell too. If you`re not sure it may be best to start with fresh fuel.
Alex
 
45HG52 said:
I have seen military vehicles run on AVGAS or AVTUR (can't remember which is closest to parafin, Cannonball Bob?). It was on an ex in about 2000, all vehicles were run on it and their performance was rubbish. However, they still ran.

Nige
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Avtur - it's essentially kerosine with anti fungal and anti freezing agents. Avgas is for piston engines and is available in two grades: 80LL and 100LL. Not many engines use the lower cetane rating. The LL just stands for low lead. You can use 100LL in a petrol car and it'll go like a rocket, but it burns very hot, so will knacker the engine in pretty short order. A 50/50 mix is OK, I'm told.
 
Tractors used to run on a variant of Paraffin, called TVO, Tractor Vapourising Oil. You started the engine on Petrol, then turn one tap off whilst turning another on.That changed the fuels over. Very low compression ratio engines.

I have been out to cars, when on the RAC, that the driver had put Paraffin in, then wondered why it wouldn't run.

It doesn't vapourise very well. I haven't tried it in an injected engine, so am not sure if it would run very well.

Chris
 
Sandy M. said:
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I thought you said it was a diesel engine
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It took me about a yr to learn not to say I was going to the petrol station to fill up.
I still find the term.. "Just popping down to the fuel depots mini distribution centre" doesn't quite slip off the tongue as it ought.
 
You run Tilley lamps on Paraffin, but I don't think you could use diesel and petrol would be disasterous.

To avoid running our series IIa out of fuel - on a dark, bleak, rain filled Yorkshire Dales night thirty odd years ago, we put two pints of 10W 50 and two gallons of paraffin in a galvanised bath, mixed it well and slung it in the 109. Never missed a beat - smoked a bit, but then it always did! God, I miss that old truck. :rolleyes:

Roger.
 
During the very cold winters we used to have years ago I used to run my truck (it was a lorry then) on 10% parraffin to stop it freezing in the pipes. I have been still running in -20 at 60 mph up Scotland duing the night when lots of other motors had frozen filters etc.
My feet were bloody freezing though:icecube:
 
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