2 stroke

[Stickyfinger]

Stu I've run so much horrid stuff thru 1.9tds over the years I was surprised they still ran when I sold them! Straight unfiltered waste veg, engine oil that was horrid, lhm, brake fluid, trams fluid....

The Bosch 1.9TD is great like that. If it can be pumped and is vaguely ignitable by compression then its happy...

Remember that Rudolph Diesel always intended his engine to run on anything but petroleum derived fuels.. He liked coal dust and peanut oil as good fuels...

Now there's a challenge - get a 1.9TD running on coal!

Easy on the 1.6ltr C5, just scrape off the bits from the injectors/turbo feed/valve and feed it back in

[CitroJim]

Stu I've run so much horrid stuff thru 1.9tds over the years I was surprised they still ran when I sold them! Straight unfiltered waste veg, engine oil that was horrid, lhm, brake fluid, trams fluid....

The Bosch 1.9TD is great like that. If it can be pumped and is vaguely ignitable by compression then its happy...

Remember that Rudolph Diesel always intended his engine to run on anything but petroleum derived fuels.. He liked coal dust and peanut oil as good fuels...

Now there's a challenge - get a 1.9TD running on coal!

Easy on the 1.6ltr C5, just scrape off the bits from the injectors/turbo feed/valve and feed it back in

[KP]

Don't even do that, just run one on normal Citroen servicing

[xantiagreen]

I accidentally managed to dump a whole 500ml in the last tank as i was tipping it in, it didn't glug just gushed out of the bottle!!

Your car's a 2SO junkie "500ml", how did it react..... was it fully synthetic?

[xantiagreen]

Try Mary Berry she's an expert at sifting..

[Zelandeth]

Well today I found myself thinking that the Xantia was sounding more clattery, especially at idle than normal. After a few minutes the penny dropped, I fuelled up a couple of days back and forgot to stick the usual splash of 2-stroke oil in, didn't I.

Stuck it in today, and next time the car went out it seemed to be back to what I have come to expect as normal.

So it definitely does seem to make some difference!

[CitroJim]

Interesting...

[doctle]

In my opinion this is homoeopathy for cars. Its a 3000 - 1 dilution, too small to make a difference. I tried similar idea with whiskey and water and it didn't work.

[Zelandeth]

I'd definitely agree based on the logic of it! If you'd suggested the idea to me I'd have discounted it save for the fact a few folks I trust said it helped their cars, so thought I'd give it a try for a few quid given it wasn't going to hurt.

Reckon my test for placebo effect is going to be me getting my other half to add (or not) the 250-300ml I usually stick in the tank for the next few fills and keep a tally of whether I'm right. Random number generator will be used to determine if it gets the oil or not.

...given a tank lasts me a month or two sadly this will take a while.

[daviemck2006]

In my opinion this is homoeopathy for cars. Its a 3000 - 1 dilution, too small to make a difference. I tried similar idea with whiskey and water and it didn't work.

Was that 3000 parts whisky to 1part water lol. NB scotch whisky, none of your Yankee or Irish whiskey here [emoji13] [emoji12] [emoji23] [emoji23]

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[doctle]

In my opinion this is homoeopathy for cars. Its a 3000 - 1 dilution, too small to make a difference. I tried similar idea with whiskey and water and it didn't work.

Was that 3000 parts whisky to 1part water lol. NB scotch whisky, none of your Yankee or Irish whiskey here [emoji13] [emoji12] [emoji23] [emoji23]

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Crack at the Mick eh? I nearly choked on my Glenfiddich! Of course technically Bushmills Whiskey is made in Northern Ireland and would therefore be a UK whiskey, E and all! Anyway I digress, my experiment wasn't very well set up. You get a decent size glass say 1/3 of a pint and put your index finger in up to the web. Add water until the tip of your finger is wet and add 1/4 teaspoon of alcohol. It still looks and tastes like water. Doing it the other way about you get what used to be called a fingers length of whiskey. (I like bourbon too, Makers Mark is Kentucky whisky)

[doctle]

Years ago the old diesel heads said to add a pint of petrol to half a tank of diesel every month to burn carbon and clean injectors. I still do it but more out of habit than belief!