The good old days, are fond memories. And were never that good.![]()
Although I do pine for the days where people minded their own business. And we’re happy to let you mind yours.
Adding oil in fuel intentionally? What would be the purpose?
Discussion in 'Heavy Duty Diesel Truck Mechanics Forum' started by Unidewking, Dec 24, 2018.
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You could get away with this with older engines. My step grandfather sometimes takes my oil mixed gasoline I have for the leaf blowers and puts it in his prehistoric 1970’s g10 van. Honestly being a POS the oil in the gasoline makes it run better.... I wouldn’t dare do that in newer cars or rigs.
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Roadway used to use a drip tank to add old oil at a metered rate. For fuel cost savings.
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I’ve seen where owners took pride in their 71 and 92 series Detroit’s, drove them properly, and maintained them well. Those are the old “fuel pinchers” that didn’t leak. It could be done, it just wasn’t done often!!Rideandrepair and A5¢ Thank this. -
McDonald’s would burn their used fryer oil in their trucks
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Two-stroke Detroits were available in inline and V configurations. 53, 71, and 92 series. For more reasons than I can write, they were ingenious in their design
They were legendary engines for reliability, durability, and longevity. They would just keep going and going and take all kinds of abuse. They would run on pretty much anything you put in the fuel tank. And keep going and going
They probably were the most widely used engine design, as they powered everything from boats to trucks to generators to military equipment and many many other things. I believe they were designed in the 1930s and were in production well through the 1980s. I'm not sure but they may still be in production for the military.
Epa did them in. Detroit decided not to do any more research and development on them, and went to the series 60.Last edited: Dec 27, 2018
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