>Mr Spence, I am now very very curious.  Give me an
>example of a diesel engine that doesn't have an
>injection system.  Every diesel I have ever worked on
>has an injection system, weather it be mechanical or
>electrical.  I guess in theory, you could charge the
>air, kinda like a carburator does for a gasoline
>engine, but that defeats the whole purpose of the
>engine being more efficient.

As I understand it, Diesels running on gaseous fuels such as NG have the 
normal injectors for liquid fuel and also have some sort of gaseous fuel 
distribution system in the inlet stream.  A small amount of liquid fuel is 
injected to start combustion.

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