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Re: Diesel or Propane
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Posted by Owen Aaland on April 18, 2007 at 18:45:31 from (65.161.86.75):
In Reply to: Re: Diesel or Propane posted by Vito on April 18, 2007 at 16:45:11:
A properly set up propane engine will outlast an engine running gasoline or diesel. With propane you will not have oil diluted with fuel so you do not have cylinder wall or bearing wear caused by fuel dilution. I have been servicing a fleet of propane powered trucks for over 25 years. I have done valve jobs on 350 Chev engines with over 200,000 miles on them and there was no measurable wear on the cylinder walls. Currently most of the trucks have 8.1L engines putting out about 340 HP, a gain of 15 to 20 HP over the gasoline setup they left the factory with.
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