Here in Sweden during the 1950's we use tractors for kerosene and gasoline. There was a tiny little tank for gasoline just for starting. Before shut down, we have to switch a valve and run the engine for a couple of minutes to get gasoline in the carburetor. If forgetting this operation, we have to drain the system from kerosene, fill with gasoline, and start. At that time, the kerosene was much cheaper than gasoline or diesel. The carbon upbuild was tremendous... I dissembled a tractor with carbon in the exhaust system so the passage was as a size of a pencil. /Pelle

@ProjectFarm

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this information.

@moe3655

6 жыл бұрын

Pelle Söderström u

@robertmurdock9750

6 жыл бұрын

A lot of old tractors were kerosene burners. John Deere made a lot of them. Changing back over to gasoline before shutting down also helped burn out some of the carbon. The combustion chamber was larger on kerosene engines and if you wanted to convert to gasoline only you had to braze an iron ring into head of each cylinder to raise the compression.

@ironhat

6 жыл бұрын

When converting over to vegetable oil as a fuel and living in a cold winter climate you need to follow the same shut down procedure. Of course, veggie oil won't work in Sweden due to the harshness of your winters. I wonder if mixing the oil with gasoline would help to thin the viscosity? (I'm referring to used veg. oil. Fresh would be cost prohibitive.)

@stefanogrillo6040

6 жыл бұрын

same for italy. there are many who currently operate old kerosene engines lombardini but they simply use gas not kerosene anymore(not produced its called petrolio similar as word petrol in england). the advantage of kerosene, if project farm do not know, is that at higher load the engine stand really cooler than when operating with gasoline,

Many years ago we had a 1960's Plymouth Valiant with a slant 6 engine. We lived in NYC and my father was a new worker for Otis elevator at the time and not at mechanic's pay rate yet. With 3 kids (later 4) money was super tight and I mean super tight. I remember him putting in 36 cents of gas at the pumps sometimes when he was really broke and that happened more than you might think. My folks didn't gamble or drink or have any vices, the starting pay was just low for a family of 5 in the early 70's. Anyhow, Otis elevator company had metal cans of Otis Cleaning Compound that they used for machinery at the time. There were several times that we were out of gas and my Dad had no money and guess what? Pure Otis cleaning compound went into the gas tank and the car started up and got us home. Lol, my Mom and Dad and my younger brothers laugh at it now and talk about how new engines would never start or run on that stuff but then we think about what that cleaning compound may or may not have been made of, and you wonder.......who knows.? Maybe an airplane engine could have run on that stuff, lol. Ahh, I wouldn't trade in those days for anything, we really appreciated what we had and the real time we spent together.

@ProjectFarm

4 жыл бұрын

Wow! Thanks for sharing this experience. I recall some very tight financial times as a child and those memories are the best.

@notsosilentmajority1

4 жыл бұрын

@@ProjectFarm 👍🏼

@beckywatt5048

4 жыл бұрын

Probably Stoddard solvent , bet the fuel system was institutionally clean .

@eddybulich3309

4 жыл бұрын

It was probably a chemical like Brakekleen with a high % of naptha, which a car will quite happily run on, and really clean your fuel lines at the same time :)

@dw4940

4 жыл бұрын

@@ProjectFarm not good memories being broke in the cold. I think because money was tight growing up, I buy the toys I wanted & wished I had and some I've never used and.others uses a few times. Im.not stingy nor do I deprive myself.of anything

Do the mowers run and hide when you walk into Home Depot? : D

@ProjectFarm

3 жыл бұрын

Oh, so that way why they were running! lol

@justaskmeiknow5584

2 жыл бұрын

Mowers...I think that's Syd from toy story, quick hide

@overlordp.3758

2 жыл бұрын

Yes

@hazemahmed8424

2 жыл бұрын

This comment made my day!

@acldachosen1

2 жыл бұрын

😂🤣😂

5:44 sick camber bro!

Another great video! Very informative!! My great grandfather had a 1920 Hudson super 6 that he converted so that it would run on 'coal oil' or what today we call Kerosene. He would start it on gasoline until it warmed up and then he turned a valve on the dash so then it would run on kerosene. As in your video, under load the engine would develop an pre-ignition knock. He discovered that by introducing droplets of water into the carburetor, the knocking would stop and the engine would smooth out, so he installed a small tube into the carburetor that was connected to the radiator (no glycol anti-freeze in the 1920's) with a valve in between on the dash and when it started to knock, he just opened the valve a little and the knock stopped. I asked him why he did the conversion and he said the main reason was that gasoline was $.19 a gallon and kerosene was $.03 a gallon! He lived until he was almost 100 and passed a way in 1967 when I was 12. I was lucky to have been a around when he was alive!

@ProjectFarm

6 жыл бұрын

Interesting. Thanks for commenting on this!

@kleenrite5550

5 жыл бұрын

YES

@wisconsinfarmer4742

4 жыл бұрын

I love the human mind when it is working.

@DoctorBrodski

4 жыл бұрын

@@ProjectFarm Using water with kerosene was actually traditional back in the days of traction engines and before rubber-tyred tractors. Those giant prairie tractors by manufacturers like Rumely Oilpull and Aultman Taylor were sold that way. A book called The Allis Chalmers Story talks about Advance Rumely tractors because AC eventually took over the company in 1931. The book mentions, "The Oilpull engine design used ample quantities of water with the fuel mixture to retard preignition (and the resultant knocking)." They weren't the only manufacturer that did that and this is why those kerosene prairie tractors featured a water tank.

@douglundy5755

4 жыл бұрын

yep thanks for the info, very interesting

I'm in awe of the amount of work you put into your videos. Great stuff thank you

@ProjectFarm

3 жыл бұрын

I appreciate that!

The old farm tractors started on gasoline, warmed up, then were switched over to Kerosene.

@daviddrane6643

4 жыл бұрын

just change plugs on 9N

@vHindenburg

4 жыл бұрын

Kerosene in the senseof Lamp petroleum or jet engine fuel? In English that gets quite confusing. have seen a few trators to be desinged to start on regular petrol and than lamp oil ( petroleum not petrol)

@thechickenfriedredneck910

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah Kerosene used just be called Tractor fuel.

@jh-kn2bc

4 жыл бұрын

True

@davidt7312

4 жыл бұрын

They also did it was lawn tractors back in the day. They had a split tank, one side was for gas and the other side was kerosene. They did it because Kerosene was so much cheaper to run. They would start the ending on gas and turn the gas off and turn the kerosene on.

My Grandfather ran a road crew during the Great Depression and he said they ran maintainers, graders, rollers, and other gas equipment on kerosene. One would first use a small gas tank to crank and run till the engine achieved operating temperature then switched to the main fuel tank of kerosene. I still have one of those 2.5 gallon crank tanks. Great video as always. Keep em coming. 👍✌

Back in the day, many John Deere 2cyl tractors had one small gas tank, and one tank for "tractor fuel" which was very similar to kerosene. You had to run on gas until operating temp to get the motor hot to keep the kerosene vaporized properly, and then run on kero the rest of the day. Before shutoff you had to switch back to gas to avoid hard starting. Even on tractors that weren't dual fuel, cheap farmers would cut their gasoline with as much kerosene as they could and still start reliably to save on fuel costs.

@douglundy5755

4 жыл бұрын

the old "coal oil" as fuel, yep

@ralphwood5114

4 жыл бұрын

Yes John Deere tractor fuel. I think it was green. My old 38 Chevy did fine on kerosene because it was low compression. Had to warm it up on gasoline. In the mid 50s kerosene was about 10 cents a gallon. That changed with higher demand because of jet engines using it. The old Ford model T ran good on moon shine or gasoline.probably would run good on kerosene. Grandma called it coal oil. If you stepped on a nail or something with your bare feet.grandma had your foot in a pan of coal oil. We didn't have electric. She had a 55 gallon drum full for lights. About 1951 we got electric. The adults were trying to turn on the lights in the church.They were on ladders trying to turn on the florescent lights. Someone saw this thing on the wall and flipped it on. The lights came on. Then it was praise the Lord.

@ralphwood5114

4 жыл бұрын

That's right the starter was my dad's strong arms turning the big heavy fly wheel.

@ralphwood5114

4 жыл бұрын

Had a guy that had a steep hill going down to the fields. Coming up the hill the tractor front came up and over killing him. His wife was trying to keep the farm going and also was killed on the hill. Remember my dad getting stuck. When he engaged the clutch the front end came up. When you got the old iron wheels stuck you weren't going any where.

@ralphwood5114

4 жыл бұрын

Bought a 51 Farmall H once for 200 bucks It had been sitting in a field for many years. It was converted to propane but the remains of the old oil burning system was still there. Saw a Ford tractor with a Funk Engineering kit that allowed you to put a Ford 6 cylinder car engine in it.. Saw a Flat head Ford V8 in one. Took off like a Mustang.

I saw a King of the Hill (animated) show where Hank falls asleep driving a Semi and his friends (Dale, Bill, Boomhauer) take over and get stranded on a mountain-top. They ran out of fuel. In the semi were antiques being transported and some of the antiques were Kerosene lamps. They utilized the kerosene while going backwards down the hill to pop-start the engine and turn around on a semi-runaway runway. It was nice to see this actually tested even though that likely wasn't the reason you did this test. I appreciate all of your work and enjoy every second of your videos. Never stop - seriously, they're gold to all of your fans!

@ProjectFarm

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

I really like how you test stuff!!

@ProjectFarm

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@tedjames2534

3 жыл бұрын

Even stupid concepts like this?

@louis-thomastremblay7607

3 жыл бұрын

@@ProjectFarm î Kk i oui i ou i

@iambhariav155

3 жыл бұрын

Tmkc

Was reading an old Briggs and Stratton repair manual the other day and they used to have a procedure to run their engines on kerosene. The caveat was that you had to start them on gas and then switch them over once the engine was warm (they used a dual-fuel tank setup). Very cool!

@ProjectFarm

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing.

I already knew that it would work, since Briggs & Stratton actually had adjustable ignition timing on some of their older engines specifically so they could run on kerosene.

@ProjectFarm

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for commenting on this!

@ericscaillet2232

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Cameron , yes correct but to see it is great!

@anagramconfirmed1717

2 жыл бұрын

i aLrEaDY kNeW Well good for you.

Viewers please NOTE carefully: this is a FLATHEAD engine and they have very LOW COMPRESSION ratios so they'll run on just about anything . Not so with an car engine that has OHV's. So, don't expect the results you see here to be applicable to a modern automobile.

@miguelangelvizuetmata555

5 жыл бұрын

Russ G I once ran one such engine with white gas in an emergency. Ran more or less normal. I would never run a car on that stuff, though.

@richardwaldron222

5 жыл бұрын

I poured about a few cups into a Ninja 650r parallel twin to get me 10 miles. It got me to the store just find under light load. Needed more revs to operate then on normal fuel. Normally I cruise at 80mph a 5k revs.

@greenidguy9292

5 жыл бұрын

Miguel Angel Vizuet Mata white gas is another term for unleaded gasoline.

@williamjones4483

5 жыл бұрын

@@greenidguy9292 Not so much. The term "white gas" is more commonly used for such products as lighter fluid, naptha, Coleman stove fuel or other similar products.

@greenidguy9292

5 жыл бұрын

@@williamjones4483 well as a former boy scout many years ago we always used unleaded (white gas) in our Coleman lanterns and stoves. Perhaps it depends on what part of the world you live in as to what "white gas" is.

When I was young, me & my dad here in The Philippines also tried kerosene on a motorcycle engine (air cooled engine without a fan) at a certain point engine heat up, almost to an overheat temperature so we cut the ignition off to stop the engine but the engine keeps on running, so we quickly shut off the fuel valve, engine still continues to run till all the kerosene was consumed. You should try to experiment this on what temperature does a kerosene don't need a spark plug & run on its own. I love watching your videos, nice work bro, Keep it up! 👍

@ProjectFarm

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing.

Man your channel is an epic display of mythbuster style of science. You rock man!

I have been watching your channel for awhile and 1 thing stands out, those little engine's are built to last..

@ProjectFarm

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I'm amazed at the durability of the Briggs & Stratton too!

I learn a lot from your videos too. I'm constantly surprised. Keep up the great work tearing down preconceived notions

@ProjectFarm

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

When I was a student (MANY years ago) I had a friend who ran an old car on Paraffin (ok kerosine). It wouldn't actually start on it - he had a detergent bottle full of petrol (ok Gasoline) which he would squirt into the carburetor before starting the car. In those days kerosine was much cheaper than petrol, nowadays it is more expensive.

@cyrilimbwaga3377

10 ай бұрын

In my country kerosene is still cheaper than petrol

I'm sure alot of people was wondering about this these days. thank for doing the test. keep it up! and also the music is great as well

@ProjectFarm

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, will do!

Really great to know that it runs that well using kerosene.

@ProjectFarm

6 жыл бұрын

I was really surprised it worked so well. By the way, great job on the videos!

@sixspectre2329

3 жыл бұрын

Ruined the surprise.

What an excellent channel !

@ProjectFarm

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Runs better than I expected. Great video

I remember here in Oz, about 50 years ago, farmers were using what was called Power Kerosene in tractors and stationary engines. They had to be started on petrol (gas) and switched over to kero when they reached running temperature.

@ProjectFarm

4 жыл бұрын

Great information. Thank you

That's utterly amazing...who knew..didn't even know it would atomize enough to burn! Awesome!!! Keep em coming!

@ProjectFarm

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Here is a video idea - try putting the highest quality fuel in an dirty (uncleaned) engine, run it for some time and see whether it will clean some of the carbon and deposits in the engine Thanks about this episode - great video - very entertaining and informative.

@ProjectFarm

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this recommendation!

That see_thru footage is fantastic ! ...

My favorite channel. I like how you measure the efficiency.

@ProjectFarm

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

wonderful videos .I highly appreciate your efforts, struggle and interest .God bless you for your hard work

@ProjectFarm

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Thanks for this video I really enjoyed it. I can tell that a lot more effort went into this video compared to some of your other videos. You're doing very well and have been watching you for a while, I enjoy every video!

@ProjectFarm

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Yes, I'm investing nearly twice the time and a lot more funding as well. Viewers deserve it and I'm also trying to demonstrate to my children a saying my father often said to me while growing up... "Anything worth doing, is worth doing right". Thanks again!

@giuseppefanelli3507

6 жыл бұрын

Project Farm, wise words and very true!

Thank you so much for your reviews and your craft. I would love to see videos on how you moded your lawn mower for a drill start.

@ProjectFarm

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the feedback

As always I really enjoy your scholastic approach to it. You are the scientist in every child I mean that in the best sense.

@ProjectFarm

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

*You some kind of mad scientist bro*

@ProjectFarm

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

You have to be one of the meanest, most passive aggressive people I have ever seen making videos!! ... Man, I can't keep a straight face. I actually love your videos with all the extremely useful content! You're the kind of guy I would want to be a close friend with. :) Keep up the great work and keep 'em coming!

@ProjectFarm

6 жыл бұрын

LOL! Thank you for the positive comment!

Wow thanks for taking the time and doing all that that's impressive had no idea kerosene to be used

@ProjectFarm

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I'm addicted to your channel!

@ProjectFarm

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoy it!

Running an engine on a fuel with a lower octane count than needed is problematic. However, it is possible to remedy this problem by injecting distilled water into the manifold. It takes a little time and some experiments to make it work. Water is injected when knocking occur. By heat absorption, when the water droplets turns to vapor, the sudden rise in temperature and, thus, pressure in the combustion chamber will be less and thus limit or remove the knocking. Water injection and combined water and methanol injection, has been used by both the Germans and the allied during WWII and later to prevent knocking. High pressure turbo loading of piston engines in combination with low octane fuel have the the same result as you experienced: knocking. What was found in both WW2 Germany and USA, was that some injection of a 50/50% mixture of distilled water and methanol would allow a higher manifold pressure ~= higher compression above the piston just before ignition without knocking. The above is not perfect English, but I hope it make sense. /John

@ProjectFarm

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the ideas!

@kleenrite5550

5 жыл бұрын

Very good

@buckstaffvvile9064

5 жыл бұрын

Your English is as good as mine, and I am a US native college grad.

@notsosilentmajority1

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the great information. Very informative and also very interesting. Thank you.

@kevinduffy2502

4 жыл бұрын

Until you fu@# up the valve's or worse from putting water even little drops in a hot running engine.. Next ill read you can always just water your gas down if your low and cant get none and have to drive somewhere.. KZread comments are priceless

Back in the 1910's through the early 40's kerosene was used in farm tractors, because it was cheaper than gasoline. They used a different carburetor and had radiator shutters to control the engine temperature and help the engine reach operating temperature. The engine would actually start on gas, warm up and be switched over to kerosene. Advance rumley actually made engines that ran on kerosene alone.

@ProjectFarm

6 жыл бұрын

This is interesting.

@rivervalleyfarm482

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, there were several alternative fuels tried. Kerosene was one of the more common, distillate (undrinkable alcohol), was another. Also propane or LPG as it was called at the time. Kerosene and distillate we're used in the same time frame LPG came later 50's and 60's. Now there's an idea, will a gasoline engine run on propane, without the propane fuel system?

@DavidN23Skidoo

6 жыл бұрын

Those tractors needed a bit of oil drained and replaced every day due to kerosene working past the rings and thinning crankcase oil. Earlier farm engines and tractors had total loss lubrication. Those earlier engines also used water from the cooling system to prevent detonation. A carburetor would have three parts; starting and warm up gasoline, kerosene for working, and water to prevent knock.

@DavidN23Skidoo

6 жыл бұрын

Look up 5 hp Falk and you will see three knobs on top of the carb. Here it is: kzread.info/dash/bejne/mGuMrsiSdNLJgso.html

@keltonwright7

6 жыл бұрын

John deere had water valves on a carburetors that could be opened from the operators position to stop pre-ignition . It used water from the radiator to do this.

Quality content as always! Keep up the awesome work man!

@ProjectFarm

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Will do!

I love this guy's testing!!

@ProjectFarm

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Jet fuel is a clear to straw-colored fuel, based on either an unleaded kerosene (Jet A-1), or a naphtha-kerosene blend (Jet B). Similar to diesel fuel, it can be used in either compression ignition engines or turbine engines. Todd, always enjoy your videos keep them coming. I have a suggestion let's try running your go cart on AVgas 100 . Shell global makes it . General repair

@ProjectFarm

6 жыл бұрын

This is great information. Also, thanks for the recommendation to test AVgas 100.

Knock knock! Who's there? Ur engine. -_-

@ProjectFarm

6 жыл бұрын

LOL!

@rklos87

5 жыл бұрын

Haha! I like this one.

@celtichongy

5 жыл бұрын

Used Lawnmower Salesman . " This here mower is the opportunity of a lifetime" Customer " I know, I can hear it knocking" Imagine Mr Haney and Oliver Wendell Douglas in scene!

@nicktimar3037

5 жыл бұрын

DrewT65 Issa Subaru

@Brusselpicker

5 жыл бұрын

Old mechanic guy I know drains the tanks of mixed diesel and gasoline, just adds a liitle more gas to the mix, then runs his vehicle on it.

Never would have thought...thanks for the informative video.

@ProjectFarm

2 жыл бұрын

You are welcome!

I really like this style of video that has an "in the field" component to it.

@ProjectFarm

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

The 154 dislikes came from the people who tested this and didn't worked but ruined their engine

4 жыл бұрын

Or...from people who liked it somewhat, but just don't wish to have more like it in their recommend feed.

@devinkim4588

4 жыл бұрын

Why would a MORE purified gasoline ruin an engine. The higher the octane the better

@devinkim4588

4 жыл бұрын

Kerosene is jet fuel

@truckernation7886

4 жыл бұрын

That’s a pus c engine to break over some kerosene.

@marcelmolenaar5684

4 жыл бұрын

A diesel runs on kerosene

Answered an age old question for me. Great job Mr. Spock!

@ProjectFarm

3 жыл бұрын

Glad to help!

I love this channel. Extremely interesting and detailed!

@ProjectFarm

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Hello,i Love your Videos :) Greetings fromm Germany!

@ProjectFarm

6 жыл бұрын

Greetings and thank you!

great video!! you should test on what fuel a good old diesel engine «can’t» run!!

@ProjectFarm

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the video project idea!

Very thorough trial, good information thanks.

@ProjectFarm

2 жыл бұрын

You are welcome!

Man that was an excellent video. I really appreciate it.

@ProjectFarm

7 ай бұрын

Thanks and you are welcome!

Nice video as always. :)

@ProjectFarm

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Back in the 40s and 50s when I was young my dad had a farmal and a mccormorick deering excuse the spelling tractor both had duel fuel tanks one gas the other kerosene start on gas then switch to kerosene both started with hand crank if you didn't set the spark advance just wright they would backfire and could break your arm

@lubesiron-cslfarmsllc2751

5 жыл бұрын

I'm very farmiliar with that style McCormick deering you refer to. Had a Farmall F12 I was working on for a guy once. I forgot to retard the spark. When I hit the hand crank it kicked me pretty hard

@rumplestiltskin3814

4 жыл бұрын

That is why you always pull up on a hand crank and never push down. Lots of people with broken arms will vouche for that.

That is pretty cool where you can see how it is burning very good video thanks for all you do

@ProjectFarm

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoy it!

Thank you for providing actual scientific data. I use your videos for reference when i make purchases.

@ProjectFarm

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

Great material always, running diesel is tricky unless you have a multi fuel military engine and I'm not sure how much they use those anymore. Diesel requires so much more compression ratio in naturally aspirated engines and cylinder pressure on engines with turbos and/or blowers.

@ProjectFarm

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the feedback

Grandpa had a 1940 Farmall tractor that started on gas then you'd swap to the larger tank which was kerosene.

@jusb1066

6 жыл бұрын

yep back in the days of ww2 and gasoline was short, parrafin was made from coal (not these days , its refined from oil now) and thus was another source of fuel

@ProjectFarm

6 жыл бұрын

Interesting!

@simplestatic3751

6 жыл бұрын

Most of those engines were also very low compression compared to todays engines. Low compression engine on kero would probably not have the problem with predetonation/pinging as in the video.

@BustedWalletGarage

6 жыл бұрын

Simplestatic it also had a spare hand crank for when the battery was dead. If it backfired you'd have to go fish your arm out of the nearest tree.

@billbridge7458

6 жыл бұрын

I also had a 1937 McCormick-Deering Farmall that had the same dual tank setup.

amazing videos, thanks very much for making them

@ProjectFarm

2 жыл бұрын

You are welcome!

Great 👍 stuff tank you and keep uploading videos

@ProjectFarm

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, will do!

Briggs engine used to say put 2 head gaskets and a colder heat range spark plug in then you could burn kerosene with no knocking

@ProjectFarm

6 жыл бұрын

Interesting.

@ericscaillet2232

5 жыл бұрын

@@ProjectFarm would that be because the compression ratio is decreased and an over all lower operating temperature? - I think everyone answering to this test of yours are frustrated petro chemists that took a wrong vocation in life😅

You should show the safety data sheets for gasoline next to the data sheets for your experimental fuel, so we have something to compare the kerosene values, etc, to! Otherwise, great video!!!

@ProjectFarm

6 жыл бұрын

This is a great recommendation--thank you!

@LatitudeSky

5 жыл бұрын

Kero is significantly safer. Flash point is much higher, vapor ignition is never an issue, and it's not even very nasty if you get it on your skin. Kero is really quite good stuff. Unfortunately it's more costly than motor fuels. Most engines that can run on kero can run diesel instead, which is cheaper most of the time. Many things that run on Jet-A can also run on good kerosene. And Jet-A will work in kerosene devices. Sometimes useful.

Great Work , highly informative

@ProjectFarm

Жыл бұрын

Thanks and you are welcome!

great vid and demonstration mate

@ProjectFarm

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you

I once made a 1973 VW beetle run on kerosene on a bet. On my first run, it would stall under load but ran better once it was warmed up. My solution, I ran a copper coil around the exhaust manifold , and the fuel would flow through it, warner kerosene seemed to work better. It was dangerous but a low budget solution to win several cases of beer. The bet was to drive it around a city block 3 times. Won the bet

Once again I enjoyed watching the video and the surprising results I honestly didn't think it would work that well. The only kerosene I've used for a different purpose was a blue color. Wonder why that is being the only color they stocked.

@ProjectFarm

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I love the fact that he always looks like he is about to laugh when doing the presentation and the analysis. Trying to be serious about a, seemingly absurd question, but a fun and educational subject. Seriously though, this is the best education and entertainment at the same time :D

@ProjectFarm

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you

If you were an academia you will have won a Nobel price for sure. Thank you for your innovative ideas

Can you make a comparison of the differents types of gas available in gas stations (regular, premium...) ?

@ProjectFarm

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this video project idea!

@jonnyrox116

6 жыл бұрын

K05 T4R we have ethanol free gas where I live and it's about 75-80 cents more per gallon. Although it wouldn't be practical to do for a V8, I use a simple ethanol separator for making fuel for all my small engines. Basically I add a couple drops of food coloring to a quart of water and vigorously mix it into 5 gallons of gas that contains ethanol, wait for it to settle and siphon off the gas until I get down to the colored water. Because ethanol is hydrophilic, meaning it attracts moisture, all the ethanol is absorbed into the colored water and when separated all you have left is straight gasoline. I've seen this done on a larger scale doing 100s of gallons at a time but that wouldn't be practical for me.

@jeremiahfix5529

6 жыл бұрын

Jon, straight gasohol, good stuff L:

@korvtm

6 жыл бұрын

When I was training to operate emission test equipment,we were told by the trainer that in our state captiol the area where emission testing was required ended at the centerline of a street,there fore if a person lived on one side of the street emission test required,other side no test.Unbelieveable unless you remember this is Washington State then it makes perfect sense.

@jeremiahfix5529

6 жыл бұрын

Rules for thee but not for me.

So back in the day we had "commercial fuel" - somewhere between gasoline and kerosene. Many I-H truck engines (and others) had a 7 1/2 : 1 compression ratio and ran fine on commercial fuel. They'd also run all day on #1 kerosene. But you'd have to give them a "water tune" once in while to knock out the carbon. Happier on gasoline, but more costly and the mileage suffered a bit. 50/50 gasoline and commercial fuel was great was great for low speed tractor engines. Now with Cali CARB killing many diesels (w/o urea), gas tractors may come back ... So learning to mix your own fuel may become a deal again ... Just another tuning tool :D

Love ya videos. I had a 67 American made car. ( Carburetor ) . In 2005 I ran out of gas. I used 5 gallons of K1 , and went the @ 18 miles I needed to get home. Of course I drained the tank and did the tune-up it needed before anyways lol. So ,love ya shows and this one makes me smile. Happy New Year buddy.

@ProjectFarm

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Happy New Year!

Another epic video by my favorite KZreadr! Seeing that see-through head footage of the slower flame front propagation of kerosene makes me curious on the exhaust valve/port temps of kerosene and how they’d hold-up long term. Thanks again, and a good take-away for me was to carry a small 1L jug of Kerosene in the back of my vehicles for those “oh crap, I might not make it to the gas station” moments as it’s much safer than having a container of gas in the back. 👍 Thanks again for the great job on another great video.

@ProjectFarm

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks and you are welcome!

Anybody remember the king of the hill episode were they ran the semi on kerosene

Most tractors made before 1940 were designed to run on kerosene. Start on gas, warm up then switch over. They also all had a water jet or injection system so that under full load they did not knock. it is said that running same amount of water and kerosene improves fuel efficiency and makes the motor run cooler under full load.

@ProjectFarm

6 жыл бұрын

This is interesting. Thanks for commenting!

Another great vid, ty....love that generator cart..lol. you use mowers for everything...your the best farm!

@ProjectFarm

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

I love his vids cause he checks controls variables like a scientist..

@ProjectFarm

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the positive comment!

Very interesting. Thanks

@ProjectFarm

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@beedslolkuntus2070

6 жыл бұрын

Project Farm epic video. If you don’t mind. Some videos please show that small off road car kinda thing. Good video anyways

Some one could tell him to piss in the tank and I believe we would see a video on it soon ! LOL I admire your curiosity

Another great video!

@ProjectFarm

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

I would have lost a bet! You are a very clever man!!

@ProjectFarm

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

*haha* i remember accidentally filling my lawnmower up with kerosene once. Thing ran rough with lots white smoke haha

@ProjectFarm

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for commenting.

@grahvis

6 жыл бұрын

Jonny DIY I did it with an outboard motor once, when I emptied the tank, refilled with petrol and finally got it started, everything vanished in that white smoke. :-)

Hey there.... was just wondering if you'd like to do a video on different types of spark plugs in your transparent cylinder head to see the different combustion patterns and what not.... notably E3 spark plugs with their unique design.... but also would like to see the comparisons. Let me know... thanks.

@ProjectFarm

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this recommendation!

Instantly subscribed, I don't drive but this is so so my type of channel.

@ProjectFarm

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Dude. That was awesome.

@ProjectFarm

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

I was hoping to see the spark knock detonation happen in the invisible head. That would have been very interesting to see.

@ProjectFarm

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, I'll try to capture that in a future video.

"both are the same temperature, very cold" haha that's how I measure temperature too.

@ProjectFarm

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Awesome I didn't know that would work. I loved watching the burn.

@ProjectFarm

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Ah! It is nice to see someone doing their bit for the environment.

"She'll go 300 hectares on a single tank of kerosene!"

@ProjectFarm

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@pepperoniunicorn8641

4 жыл бұрын

PUT IT IN H!

@xzevious69

4 жыл бұрын

For 30 parsecs

@SigJohno

4 жыл бұрын

@Dave Hanson "It no longer exists!"

@ivanlozano2019

4 жыл бұрын

It's a upper trim yugo

I used to use heavy equipment and cubs diesel fuel on the back of my truck I have ran out of gas before and put three of diesel in my tank the truck did run but not very good the trick to it was the motor had to be hot for it to work but like I say it ran horrible but was enough to give me to a gas station

That was very interesting. I was told that if you warm up an engine, AFTER starting it on gas, you could change over to kero. You actually started a warm engine on kero. I did not expect that. Thanks for posting this video. It was great. Barry

@ProjectFarm

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

This is good information. Thank you. I always keep some kerosene around as a backup heat source in the winter. I normally use any that I have left to clean parts with. I guess now I'll start mixing it with gas for my small engines.

Great video. I also wouldn't have thought the engine would run on kerosene, but it certainly did. Have you tried kerosene in a diesel engine? (I'm working my way through your videos one or two at a time). Of course finding small diesel powered pieces of equipment isn't as easy or affordable as getting old mowers, especially since there's a chance for catastrophic failure while experimenting and operating in a way not intended, so I understand. I'd think it would be a closer match than kerosene to gasoline, but I could be wrong. Anyway, tanks for another fun experiment.

@ProjectFarm

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback.

This was a great video. Now a big question. Will you consider stepping up your videos to include an old CAR???? I would love to see you run an old car on kerosene!! Like an old metro or Festival. Something small easy to modify.

@ProjectFarm

6 жыл бұрын

This is a great recommendation! I'll see what I can do.

@phantom240

6 жыл бұрын

Run an old 12A rotary on Kerosene

@CrookCountySoftwear

6 жыл бұрын

We can learn so much from small engines that it almost seem's pointless to run test on cars.

@KiwiCatherineJemma

6 жыл бұрын

Back in the early 1980's, we converted a friends old car, an old 1950's British 4 cylinder car, to run on Kerosene. Note that modern Kero is "lighting kerosene" what the old farm tractors ran on in the 1940's etc was a rather different "power kerosene". We disabled the car's original mechanical fuel pump and instead fitted 2 electric fuel pumps with a changeover switch. The main tank was filled with kerosene and small extra tank (located by the drivers legs !) held about 2 litres/half a gallon of petrol (gasoline) used for starting and warming up. We first used 6 feet/2metres of copper fuel line and wrapped it around the exhaust manifold and the exhaust header pipe, then linked it with a Y or Tee piece to the carb's normal fuel inlet. the car ran but "very awfully", so we added another 6 feet/2 metres of copper fuel line pipe, wrapped around the exhaust manifold, and it was much improved. Start the car and get up to speed and warmth on petrol/gasoline, then flick the switch, the first bit of (cold) kero stuck in the short length of fuel line just before the carburettor doesn't burn much and the car farts around and loses speed, but once the pre-heated kero reaches the carb, it burns satisfactorily, although barely so. A substantial kerosene smell was behind the car and we never got tail-gaters, we retarded the ignition slightly (easy with the old points and distributor systems).

@jeremiahfix5529

6 жыл бұрын

Might be more possible with a diesel. The sadistic trio compression heat ignition

Your channel is perfect to satisfy my curious mind

@ProjectFarm

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoy it!

Awesome good to know. Thanks for sharing

@ProjectFarm

2 жыл бұрын

You are welcome!

Adding the octane boost to the K1 would make it more like jet/airplane fuel. Since it's in between diesel and gasoline.

@crabtrap

4 жыл бұрын

@W Winterheart also "jet fuel" and "airplane fuel AVGAS.....are not even close to the same thing

Kerosene is fuel Red Bull is fuel Kerosene is Red Bull

@thetinker3924

4 жыл бұрын

and yer full of BULL!!!!!!!!!!!!

@matthewyoung9828

4 жыл бұрын

Peter that will destroy your body

@mikecheeze4312

4 жыл бұрын

Oh peta...

@dr.hugog.hackenbush9443

4 жыл бұрын

Bleach is mostly water. We are mostly water. Therefore, we are bleach.

@christopherwilson6527

4 жыл бұрын

W Winterheart the joke went right over head didnt it?

I learned allot from this channel

@ProjectFarm

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the feedback

Watching you do stuff the right way is intp amsr.

@ProjectFarm

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching.

Old tractors and engines used power kero, not lighting kero, power kero as used in tractors and vintage gas engines were a mix of lighting kero and gas fuel. To stop preignition they used water injection. This small amount of water vapour in the fuel would not allow the carbon deposits in cylinder to preignite fuel. It was a way of bringing the cost of fuel down. Avikero is pure kero and a lot cleaner but doesn’t contain gas of any sort. All the engine and tractor manuals state more regular decarbonisation of head and cylinders when using power kero as it doesn’t burn as good unless under very heavy load to burn carbon out. It’s confusing as there are two main types of kerosine, while both completely different, are both referred to as kerosine. Could you imaging putting the power kero into a heater. Boom! Anyway great videos keep em coming

@ProjectFarm

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this information.

@mrnobody8540

5 жыл бұрын

Dad used that power mix they sold from the gas station, adjusted carb - worked fine back east where the land was flat... That was in the old 57 belair with the 283... Moonshiners ran straight alcohol, but carbs had to be modified for this... It was a great way to keep the weight of the vehicle down - (reason they used heavy springs on the rear, but that was a give away), Some Got pass Johnny for years with this trick..