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Posted by Sherman in Idaho [24.32.202.166] on Monday, December 31, 2012 at 18:17:41 :
In Reply to: Re: picture posted by Dave [75.81.249.218] on Monday, December 31, 2012 at 13:44:38 :
I've seen that term in old books. I think it was also called "natural gasoline" -- vapor that can be condensed out of a natural gas well, or easily evaporated from crude oil. I've even read of some of the earliest "refineries" in Pennsylvania distilling crude oil into kerosene, lubricating oil, and tar, and dumping everything lighter than kerosene into the river since there was no market for anything resembling gasoline back then. And then there were the "wood powered trucks" of WWII in Europe.
I suspect that anything that would burn in a model T would also burn in a stock 23O, especially if you could add easily-adjustable spark timing and an adjustable carburetor jet. I think we'd be surprised at the stuff these old engines can burn, that would give the new computerized sensor-packed engines fits.
It would be interesting to set up an old engine one didn't care too much about with a small auxiliary fuel tank and an easy way to adjust the mixture and timing, and see how it would do on various fuels.
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