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Old 07-17-2011 | 12:14 AM
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Default RE: Substitute for Ether

ORIGINAL: chevy43

I ran some straight diesel and oil at about 24C and it worked fine in my LA40. It would quit if the temp was lower....

I would think it would work better without the gasoline.
Gasoline in fuel makes it easier to atomize the carburetor in cold conditions (without heating up the engine with a heat gun for example). So it is not intended to remove gasoline from the fuel.
Diesel is heavily atomizing, then gasoline acts as a diluent (Reduce viscosity of the fuel) in the fuel.
With other word: Smaller drops of atomized fuel is easier to heat up by compression temperature under running condition.