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Old 07-28-2007 | 10:50 PM
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Default RE: gas fuel with glo plug no ignition

Sure, it will work, but I don't recommend it. Too much oil just carbons everything up; ports, rings, piston, glow plug, besides the mess it makes. If you run such a heavy oil mixture for long, it will eventually freeze the rings in the piston with carbon. Then the blowby gases will overheat the sides of the piston and burn the oil off, and then the engine will seize up. Further, in our case, (Gas/Glow), the extra oil takes the place of methanol, which is needed for the catalytic reaction with the glow plug. Why would anyone want to run DOUBLE the necessary oil?

What some people don't think about or understand, is that a pure glow engine can get away with the extra oil, because pure glow fuel burns cooler than gasoline and the excess oil usually doesn't burn, or carbonize. Gasoline burns hot enough to carbonize excess oil. Even the standard Gas/Glow mix is a touch heavy on oil, I really wouldn't want more oil in my engine...

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