Black smoke

#1

Does anyone know if red diesel causes engines to chuck out more black smoke
than normal diesel. I watched a guy driving out of our works car park
yesterday and his Fiat Ulysses was belching smoke out, now he has been known
to use a drop of the red stuff now and again and openly admots to it.

Jim

#2

In article <dj370g$q4l$1 (AT) nwrdmz02 (DOT) dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com>,
Jim Crawford <j.crawford2k (AT) btinternet (DOT) com> wrote:

Quote:

Does anyone know if red diesel causes engines to chuck out more black
smoke than normal diesel. I watched a guy driving out of our works car
park yesterday and his Fiat Ulysses was belching smoke out, now he has
been known to use a drop of the red stuff now and again and openly
admots to it.

No. More likely old chip oil not filtered. ;-)

--
*My dog can lick anyone

Dave Plowman dave (AT) davenoise (DOT) co.uk London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

#3

"Jim Crawford" <j.crawford2k (AT) btinternet (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:

Does anyone know if red diesel causes engines to chuck out more black
smoke
than normal diesel. I watched a guy driving out of our works car park
yesterday and his Fiat Ulysses was belching smoke out, now he has been
known
to use a drop of the red stuff now and again and openly admots to it.

The same engine running on red diesel will produce more smoke.
But the smoke could also be caused by several other things.

#4

Moray Cuthill (moray_dot_cuthill (AT) v21 (DOT) me.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much
like they were saying :

Quote:

Does anyone know if red diesel causes engines to chuck out more black
smoke than normal diesel.

The same engine running on red diesel will produce more smoke.

Hmmm...

I wonder if they could make the smoke red...

Just think... The M25 could look *even more* like this :-
http://unixbeard.net/~richardc/talks/dea/arrow3.jpg

#5

The message <dj370g$q4l$1 (AT) nwrdmz02 (DOT) dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com>
from "Jim Crawford" <j.crawford2k (AT) btinternet (DOT) com> contains these words:

Quote:

ow he has been known
to use a drop of the red stuff now and again and openly admots to it.

Drop him in it with Customs and Excise. The traces of it persist for
several tankfuls after you use it.

--
Skipweasel
Never knowingly understood. (Ivor Cutler)

#6

"Guy King" <guy.king (AT) zetnet (DOT) co.uk> wrote

Quote:

The message <dj370g$q4l$1 (AT) nwrdmz02 (DOT) dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com
from "Jim Crawford" <j.crawford2k (AT) btinternet (DOT) com> contains these words:

ow he has been known
to use a drop of the red stuff now and again and openly admots to it.

Drop him in it with Customs and Excise. The traces of it persist for
several tankfuls after you use it.

I'll second that, several thousand miles too.

It's unfair that he gets away with using red derv.

--
The DervMan
www.dervman.com

#7

"Moray Cuthill" <moray_dot_cuthill (AT) v21 (DOT) me.uk> wrote

Quote:

"Jim Crawford" <j.crawford2k (AT) btinternet (DOT) com> wrote in message
news:dj370g$q4l$1 (AT) nwrdmz02 (DOT) dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com...
Does anyone know if red diesel causes engines to chuck out more black
smoke
than normal diesel. I watched a guy driving out of our works car park
yesterday and his Fiat Ulysses was belching smoke out, now he has been
known
to use a drop of the red stuff now and again and openly admots to it.

The same engine running on red diesel will produce more smoke.
But the smoke could also be caused by several other things.

Why? Is it a cruder diesel or summat? Red diesel that is.

--
Malc

Never apply a StarTrek solution to a Babylon 5 problem

#8

Malc (malunspamwhhite (AT) lightindigooverthere (DOT) co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding
much like they were saying :

Quote:

Why? Is it a cruder diesel or summat? Red diesel that is.

Yes. Almost certainly.

Your average tractor doesn't give a toss about low-sulphur and the
lubricity requirements of common-rail pumps. It'd run on cowshit if it had
to.

#9

Quote:

It's unfair that he gets away with using red derv.
^^^^^^^^^^^^

Hehe, bitterness Dervy?

Tom

#10

Malc wrote:

Quote:

"Moray Cuthill" <moray_dot_cuthill (AT) v21 (DOT) me.uk> wrote in message
news:43555374 (AT) news (DOT) greennet.net...

"Jim Crawford" <j.crawford2k (AT) btinternet (DOT) com> wrote in message
news:dj370g$q4l$1 (AT) nwrdmz02 (DOT) dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com...
Does anyone know if red diesel causes engines to chuck out more
black smoke
than normal diesel. I watched a guy driving out of our works car
park yesterday and his Fiat Ulysses was belching smoke out, now he
has been known
to use a drop of the red stuff now and again and openly admots to
it.

The same engine running on red diesel will produce more smoke.
But the smoke could also be caused by several other things.

Why? Is it a cruder diesel or summat? Red diesel that is.

No, it's the same as ordinary diesel, anybody that says different hasn't got
a clue. The red is just a dye nothing more, nothing less, and doesn't
produce more black smoke than normal diesel. Check a few web sites about
marine diesels, you'll more info there.

--
ThePunisher
Latitude: 54.67N
Longitude: 5.96W

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