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Re: Diesel vs Gas
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Posted by buickanddeere on August 25, 2006 at 10:28:01 from (216.183.138.78):
In Reply to: Diesel vs Gas posted by raleigh on August 25, 2006 at 05:52:33:
Depends if you are comparing pre-electronic gas v.s. diesel. And the leaded gasoline era v.s the unleaded fuel era. Anyone remember 5.7 Olds diesels and 6.2 Chev diesels? Until the mid 1980's it was the norm to find gasoline powered vehicles in the shop with worn engines requiring an overbore. Now a gasser that doesn't make 300,000 is considered a dud. The gassers now run much cleaner when electronically controlled and on unleaded fuel. As for wear on ignition system v.s. diesel injection systems? It's easier and cheaper at home to spin platinum plugs out every 60,000 miles than it is to service diesel injectors. Have a look under the hood, the distributer is disappearing and there is a separate coil for every plug or two. Even if equiped with a distributer. It's nothing to go 50,000 miles on a cap and rotor. Those diesel pumps and injectors begin to wear from hour 1 as well. Plus which engine suffers worse if a batch of wrong to polluted fuel is dumped into the tank?
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