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Re: Why wont my diesel run on gasoline?
Posted to Technical Theory Forum on 11/30/2004

As you an I know that diesel engine has very high compression ratio. It control fuel not air.

therefore, it will not run or run good at all with gasoline. disel is more dense than gasoline. before piston get to compress to the top- gasoline all ready ignited... Login to read more.