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.
When diesel gets past rings and gaskets, it doesn’t break down crankcase oil as dramatically as diesel.
Me thinks you meant to say does not break down crankcase oil as dramatically as GAS.
Clesse Cummins furnished the engines for an early arctic naval expedition and made sure they would run on whale oil so the team could harvest their own fuel if needed