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From: rsiatl!jgd@gatech.edu (John G. DeArmond)
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Subject: re: Oil Dilution Systems.
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Date: 23 Oct 90 01:00:29 GMT
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From: rsiatl!jgd@gatech.edu (John G. DeArmond)

ron@hpfcso.fc.hp.com (Ron Miller) writes:
>My opinion is that only a government funded military can afford the 
>replacement and maintenance that comes with gasoline dilution.
>The rest of us use electric or kerosene block heaters.
>(I use an electric block heater on my jeep and I've used kerosene
> preheaters on light airplanes for starts at 0F.)

Lest we start another urban legend here, Let's make it clear:  There are
NO additional maintenance costs associated with oil dilution assuming
the system is used as designed.  Engine damage from gasoline oil dilution
that most people hear about is as a result of the gasoline being introduced
to the oil via the cylinders where it washes residual oil from the walls and
rings in the process.  As long as the oil dilution system is used as intended -
to restore the viscosity of cold oil that approximating ambient, nothing is
harmed.  Gasoline does not have some mysterious ability to damage engines.

If one wants to consided this in a different light, consider that 2 stroke
engines run with oil dilution in the range of 40:1 to as little as 100:1.

John

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