[AT] Engine flushing etc.

[Ed Stewart]

Hi Farmer, If it weren't for how much the gas would cost I would come 
out and go to that Chinese buffet with you, sounds good..K1 seems to 
lube allright as I use a lot of it pure in the oil furnace here by 
itself. We ran the old F-20 on K1 and every morning we opened the second 
petcock on the oilpan, which was the oil full gauge and drained till it 
quit coming out and poured it back into the fuel tank, That was the 
unburned K1 that went down past the rings the day before that separated 
from the oil overnight. There used to be a lot of those kerosene heaters 
in use around here,but no more, I have a 30,000 btu one here that would 
cost 10 or 12 bucks a day now to use.. I keep mine both full because of 
the old rural electric company here in PA, if a deer rubs his horns on a 
pole the power goes off.. Ed

Francis Robinson wrote:
>     I have always been a little concerned about running an engine with K-1 
> in it but it is probably fine as long as you don't get carried away and run 
> it too long. Surely it is better for an engine than the dirt... I have 
> drained engines and then poured K-1 through it to flush out the stuff that 
> settles to the bottom. I have also put in about a gallon and ran it very 
> briefly. I never really felt that it hurt anything but I still had a nagging 
> feeling that it lacked any real qualities of lubrication and it also costs 
> something like $900 a gallon now...   ;-)   If I have an engine now that 
> seems a little dirty I flush it with a gallon of diesel fuel. I know that it 
> at least lubricates an injector pump. It also seems to remove a lot of junk 
> and is finally cheaper than gasoline here and a ton less than K-1. I'll bet 
> that a lot of those little K-1 heaters sat idle this year.   :-)   For a 
> little more than the price of a gallon of K-1 and with my senior discount I 
> can go to a local Chinese buffet and eat myself silly...   ;-)
>
>
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> Francis Robinson
> Central Indiana, USA
> robinson at svs.net 
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Ed Stewart
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