On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:57:54 -0700, JR North
wrote:

If you need the long answer, it's prolly a waste of time...
Anyway, gasoline will ignite from the compression temp on injection
and burn WAAAY to fast-almost detonate, and so can do severe damage to
the structure of the engine's components. It will do little useful
work. If you dispenced with the diesel injection pump and naturally
aspirated the engine with a carburator, the gas would preignite too
early in the compression stroke and you would never get it started.
Might break the starter or a piston or two trying.You could reduce the
compression ratio to accomodate gas, but then you might as well just
use a gas engine. Trying to convert a diesel to run on gas is an
absurd notion.
JR
Dweller in the cellar

And trying to run a gas engine on diesel can get very smoky, as the
electronics maintenance supervisor found out when he tanked up at the
wrong pump. Fortunately he only got about a 50/50 mix, so it would
run, and the car was due for replacement.
Gerry :-)}
London, Canada