Thread: Diesel in a gasoline engine

Tweet

We used to pour some diesel down the carb supposedly to clean the valves and combusion chambers. Don't know if it worked or not, but it sure put out a cloud of white smoke.

This gave me an idea. I was about 17 and had a '53 Stude with a 283 in it, and I hooked up a lawnmower fuel tank under the hood, with a hose running to an old electric fuel pump I had. I terminated the hose by clamping it to the aircleaner stud on the carb. Hooked it up to a push button on the dash. I filled the tank with diesel, and when I pushed the button, diesel would get pumped into the carb throat.

My idea was to drive around the local hamburger joint that night, hit the button, and smoke the whole place out. (Don't ask me why this made sense, but in my 17 year old head, this would be great fun )

We had two hamburger joints, The Dog House, and Stringhills Pizza, and the weekend game plan was to drive in circles around these places, to see who was there and to be seen. Maybe even pick up a date there. So on this Saturday night I drove around both places, and held the button down, and the smoke started rolling out of the exhaust. By the time I got around the full cirlce, you couldn't see a thing for the white smoke. People were choking and yelling profanities at me.

I thought it was funny, nobody else did, so I took off the contraption and never did it again. Dumb things we did as kids, but they somehow made sense at the time.

Don