28 sec kerosene

[jace]

dont ol tractors use para/petrol mix ol grey fergies and such like

 

[(RIP) PLANK]

Jace dont they have engines designed for different fuels? side valves or somehting?

 

[jace]

possibly dont they call it tvo or something only tractors i use are 3cyl kubota lol

 

[LouLou]

possibly dont they call it tvo or something only tractors i use are 3cyl kubota lol

Got it one Jace. Very popular after WW2. :smile:

 

[(RIP) PLANK]

see i remembered some thing right, didnt some old british bikes have this type of engine as well, vincent springs to mind?

 

[jace]

you can et a matchless single cylinder diesel 0-60 eventualy!

 

[jagdpanther]

I owned 3 Vincents in the early 60s , a Comet, a Rapide, and a Lightning,
at the time i read up on just about everything there was to read on them and i am fairly certain TVOP was not used in any of the motorcycle engines.
However, the HRD engine ( later to become Vincent ) was used in powered gliders during WW2 so it is possible these engines ran on a paraffin mix.

 

[gadgetsyd]

Back in 60/61 a fellow impoverished aircraft apprentice ran his Ariel side valve on aviation kerosene, he had to use petrol to start it but once running turned on the kerosene, it did smell a bit, but as we worked and lived near Heathrow nobody took any notice of the smell.

 

[(RIP) PLANK]

My knowledge on this is limited but what ou have all said does match with stories my dad told me of motorcycling during his days in the RAF with V squadron bombers in the 50's

I htink these days though with all the electronics and egr's and turbos and stuff caution is the word with any modern engine, when thinking about alternative fuels!