Be interested to see your results Bill
Had a Model "K" back in the early 60ies on a saw bench and I was never able
to run it on dinodiesel without a sad loss of power. at least a 30%
reduction from petrol. Kero was slightly less powerful than petrol but
seemed to get more torque. We used to have two grades of kero then -
lighting kero and power kero there was a big power difference between the
two of them also . . The local JD dealers have got the tractor on display
now but sadly it doesn't run so I can't try it out.
Regards
John
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Date: Friday, 26 January 2001 4:50
Subject: [biofuel] Re: John Deere Two Cylinders
>John,
>
>I'll start by saying that I find people named John naturally handsome
>and intelligent.
enough of flattery I'll start to think I've still got a brain :-{))
>Although I appreciate your response, here's what the boys on the John
>Deere list have to say:
>
>"Older tractors were designed for All Fuel. Which means they were
>started on gas "small Tank", and after warmed up they were switched
>over to the "large Tank" which could have gas, kerosene, diesel,
>ethanol, or a homemade brew. Gas was expensive in those days so it
>was not easily afforded by most farmers to burn all the time. It was
>practically impossible to start a cold gas engine on all fuel of your
>choice, because of the low octane "ignition point", so they would
>have a small tank of gas which was higher in octane and easier to
>start, then after the tractor was warm it was switched over and then
>it could burn the all fuel. All though you always needed to run the
>carb dry or switch it back over to gas before shutting it off so you
>could start it again next time. Hope this helps. Bill {Antique
>Acres}"
>
>So I suspect that these things will run on anything that burns and is
>liquid. Will just have to try it and see. I'll report the results for
>the benefit of the list.
>
>JV
>
>
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