Converting ww2 mb wills jeep from 6 volt to 12 volt

[ozm29c]

Originally Posted by Mike Kelly

That's a page from my old fuel gauge article. It did the rounds in a few MV mags , Army Motors and the MVT mag Windscreen ... and the Dutch KTR mag .... translated too !

MIKE

G'day Mike,
Valuable articles like this example seem to live on forever. I scanned this one years ago just in case I needed it for future reference. Well done Mike and thanks.
Cheers
John W.

[Blackpowder44 (RIP)]

Another tip for you to consider. In ths spring of this year my son filled up his diesel van with £50 worth of petrol. This was drained out and I descided to try running my jeep on it. Jeep ran perfectly, some smoke and diesel smell until the engine became hot. The advantage of using this mix is- upper cylinder bore is lubricated by unburnt diesel, fuel costs nothing from your friendly garage, valve stems also lubricated. Downside, If your jeep is left standing for a couple of days the petrol in the carb evaporates and when starting the diesel/petrol mix will create a smoke screen until again the engine heats up.Last but not least, check your oil level on the dip stick. A certain ammount of diesel will not be burnt up in the firing process and will find its way down into the sump, thereby thinning the oil in the sump and you will find the level on the dipstick rising. Time to drain out the oil and replace. I have done about 1200 miles before changing the oil and I consider this to be cheap motoring. Do not be put off trying this because as long as you are aware of the sump oil thinning you wont come to any harm, happy jeeping. John.ps, forgot to mention, you also get better compression because of the diesel residue sitting on top of the pistons.

[Little Jo]

John

The diesel story is very interesting. I was having a conversation a short while back with a couple of Club members regarding the Octane level in unleaded petrol that we can only purchase now, if I remeber correctly, they said the old leaded fuel we used to purchase used in our jeeps burned around 70 - 75 octane and since the introduction of unleaded fuel the lowest we can get is 90 octane, to bring this down to a resonably correct burning levels in your jeep it was suggested to add a cup of diesel to the fuel whenever you filled up the tank. Sounds fair to me.???

Cheers

Little Jo

[John Mackie]

Many years ago a jeep was brought tyo our workshop that would not go. After checking everythingwe could without any sucess we towed and towed it. After several miles it ran but with much popping and banging. Back at the workshop we drained the fuel system and filled it with new petrol. that fixed all the problems. We later found out that they had been sold a drum of drycleaning fluid

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Little Jo

The diesel story is very interesting. I was having a conversation a short while back with a couple of Club members regarding the Octane level in unleaded petrol that we can only purchase now, if I remeber correctly, they said the old leaded fuel we used to purchase used in our jeeps burned around 70 - 75 octane and since the introduction of unleaded fuel the lowest we can get is 90 octane, to bring this down to a resonably correct burning levels in your jeep it was suggested to add a cup of diesel to the fuel whenever you filled up the tank. Sounds fair to me.???

Not really, sorry. The octane rating determines to what level an air-fuel mixture can be compressed before it spontaneously ignites. The low-compression jeep engine can therefore run on low octane fuel, but equally well on high octane fuel. You just pay more because the high octane fuel is more expensive. Modern high compression engines need high octane fuel, otherwise the engine will "knock", and this will damage the engine.

HTH,
Hanno