ORIGINAL: locktite401
ORIGINAL: earlwb
Kerosene is actually a pretty good lubricant in its own right. It is also an excellent penetrating oil too, which you might have noticed when you try to wash it off your hands. Thus you do not need to add extra oil to the fuel when you are mixing it up for your engine.
So besides the oil added to the fuel the kerosene also lubricates the engine, especially the lower end.
On what basis do you suggest that kero is a lubricant suitable for replacing some of the oil in the mixture?
This goes against every fuel mixing doctrine I've heard or read of or used in fifty five years of owning and running diesels.
Ray
A reference here is one reason
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerosene
It can be used in conjunction with
cutting oil as a thread cutting and reaming
lubricant. When machining aluminium and its alloys, kerosene on its own is an excellent cutting lubricant.
It used to be a old practice for lubricating clocks many years ago:
http://mb.nawcc.org/showthread.php?t=21235
It is used to clean and lube a bicycle chain too:
http://www.nordicgroup.us/chain/
Another mention of it here
http://www.ehow.com/list_8077455_lub...-kerosene.html
Some one wrote a book about it, but I haven't bought or read the book though
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Lubricant...-/140558070554
Some discussion of it here too
http://flashoffroad.com/Diesel/Diese...iesel_fuel.htm
Obviously it doesn't work well to lubricate the top end as it burns, but for the bottom end it works.