charcoal lighter fluid?

[svd dragunov]

allright another dumb question. did a lot of searching on charcoal lighter fluid, its basically petroleum distillates. has a similar flash point to diesel. is there any reason (aside from price) that i couldn't burn some in the deuce with my wmo?

 

[insanejecke]

idk why not other then being like 5 dollors a jug lol

 

[cpf240]

Engineer775 on YouTube had a video about an old diesel car, VW - I think, that he was running on a pallet load of damaged lighter fluid cans. Seemed to work for him. Let me see if I can find it... ah, here we go...

http://youtu.be/5s1K3UglFr0

 

[Beyond Biodiesel]

allright another dumb question. did a lot of searching on charcoal lighter fluid, its basically petroleum distillates. has a similar flash point to diesel. is there any reason (aside from price) that i couldn't burn some in the deuce with my wmo?

Charcoal lighter fluid should run just fine in any diesel engine, but it is more like kerosene than diesel fuel, so it should be blended with waste oils at about 70%. Here is a link to my YouTube on kerosene
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuJbpIC_fqY

 

[TehTDK]

Engineer775 on YouTube had a video about an old diesel car, VW - I think, that he was running on a pallet load of damaged lighter fluid cans. Seemed to work for him. Let me see if I can find it... ah, here we go...

According to his comments I take it he is referring to a VW Passat, and i am guessing 90-00 model 1.9L Turbo Diesel and I think it had around 100-105 HP or something like that