For every moment we cranked, bled, cleaned, scrubbed, sprayed, heard that wonderful sound, felt the sputter, smelled the fumes, and smiled. 'She's running!' 3GM30F YSM12
1 posted on
09/29/2013 4:48:47 PM PDT by
golux
To: golux
2 posted on
09/29/2013 4:52:44 PM PDT by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: Red Badger
To: golux; a fool in paradise
The engine was first called a ‘Rudolph’, before it was called Diesel, and that’s the origin of the song lyrics ‘Run, Run Rudolph’, in case you’ve been wondering!
5 posted on
09/29/2013 5:20:21 PM PDT by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
To: golux
1936 Hanomag Rekord
1936 Mercedes-Benz 260 D
6 posted on
09/29/2013 5:21:58 PM PDT by
2ndDivisionVet
(You can't invade the mainland US There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: golux
My 95 daily driver diesel has 286,000 miles. My 85 diesel has 357,000 miles. Regular maintenance only - regular oil changes at 5k. Diesel designed his engine to run on peanut oil, but he died before he could market his engine successfully. His proteges moved things forward using distilled petroleum.
Three primary differences between diesel and gas engines:
1. Diesel engines are designed to withstand twice the internal pressures as gas engines.
2. Byproduct of burning diesel is oily soot. The byproduct of burning gas is abrasive carbon.
3. Diesel is an oil. Gasoline is a solvent. When diesel gets past rings and gaskets, it doesn’t break down crankcase oil as dramatically as diesel.
Diesel was brilliant.
7 posted on
09/29/2013 5:23:01 PM PDT by
KingLudd
To: golux
To: golux
To: golux
Is he related to Mark E Diesel or Nurse Diesel from “High Anxiety”?
17 posted on
09/30/2013 10:06:01 AM PDT by
Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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