Thats odd, especially coming out of Germany (Volkswagon) to mix gasoline in diesel, and I wouldn't try it. Was stationed in Germany and out in a GP medium tent on some hill with 20 other guys in the dead of winter and deep snow. Our Army manuals clearly said never mix gasoline with diesel for our pot bellied diesel fired heaters/funaces, use denatured alcohol. We had no denatured alcohol and the diesel was gelling up, the burners weren't firing, that tent was a freezer. We mixed gasoline with the diesel and thinned it out, got the burners to fire, warmed it up like home sweet home. Cool!!! NOT COOL AT ALL!!! The gasoline and diesel eventually seperated, the diesel being heavier went down to the bottom of the drum to burn first, which meant guys were adjusting the burner to allow the thicker diesel through the jets without thinking about what was happening, and still home sweet home heat in the tent. We all called it a night in our sleeping bags on our tents and fell asleep. We were all awakened by the huge WOOOOOSH of the thinner gasoline spraying out the jets into the burners once the diesel had all passed through them, overflowed the burner pot and burned that tent and all of our stuff to the ground. The Battalion Commander was so mad at us that he made us sleep in our communications shelters, running 5 tons, and jeeps for days before letting us pull out. His point was if had used denatured alcohol like we used in diesel fired trucks, generators, etc. never would've seperated like that, even though we didn't have any. The German government not only made us clean up the ashes, they made us dig up the dirt around the whole area, put it in bags and ship it off to be cleaned. Never went out again without making the supply sargent scrounge us up denatured alcohol, and never had that problem again.
I'm not thinking that mixing gasoline with diesel's to thin it is a good idea, from experience. I use either Howes or Power Service year around in my trucks and tractors.
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