Burning Distillate in Your Automobile Engine 



Something the East can learn from the West 

 By Edward C. Crossman 



Electric heated carbureter for heavy- 

 fuel oils to start engine when cold 



ACCORDING to my oil refining friends, 

 when you distill crude oil of as- 

 phaltum base, you get first a high 

 test gasoline, then a lower grade gasoline, 

 and so on down until between kerosene and 

 gasoline, you get what is known as "distil- 

 late." It looks, acts and smells much like 

 gasoline, but costs much less. 



Distillate is being used by too many busi- 

 ness firms with flocks of delivery and sales- 

 man cars to be condemned as merely a pass- 

 ing fad. 



Its fatal weakness is that it will not start 

 a cold engine, and in- 

 asmuch as gas engines 

 until they have 

 started, are cold, the 

 distillate is useless 

 until some other 

 method is used of 

 turning over the en- 

 gine and getting 

 enough heat into the 

 walls to make distil- 

 late vapor stop con- 

 densing on the way 

 up the intake mani- 

 fold. So owners burn- 

 ing distillate either in 



Two -compart- 

 ment tank, one 

 for gasoline and 

 one for kerosene, 

 combined with 

 the carbureter 



regular carbureters or in the many patent 

 devices for utilizing the fuel, have to start 

 on gasoline. 



On the Pacific Coast, car drivers over- 

 come by various means the reluctance of 

 distillate to vaporize and to give power in 

 a cold engine. The first means is a power- 

 ful starting and high compression motor, 

 the combination developing heat through 

 mere compression alone like a Diesel engine, 

 until the distillate be- 



Heated Kerosene 

 Into cylinders 



Two-way valve 



control rod 



Heated kerosene full up 



Heated Kerosene 

 into cylinders 



Exhaust 



Both fuelsup same 

 pipe but only 

 one at a time 



idmitted by 

 Y J suction of motor 



Details of the double tank carbureter and 

 heating arrangement using kerosene for fuel 



gins to fire. The sec- 

 ond is by water- 

 jacketing the intake 

 manifold with the 

 heated water from the 

 cylinder cooling sys- 

 tem and heating it 

 again by paralleling 

 it to the exhaust 

 manifold. 



It is a common 

 scheme in California 

 to burn half distillate 

 and half gasoline, 

 making a mixture 



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