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Originally Posted by Lannis
The LP gas thing jumped out at me, because in my experience with Morgan +8 8-cylinder cars with LP fuel (they were imported that way in 1970 to pass emissions), they had a reputation for running much cleaner than gasoline powered ones ... you could take the heads off of a 100,000 mile car and the combustion chambers were sparkly clean. What would there be about LP powered engines that would wear out the top ends prematurely?
(I have a 4/4 now ...)
Lannis
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Hard driving and no top end lube. I knew the guy that owned it. He set it up to drive it from SW Kansas to Denver to pick up body panels for his body shop. His kid did most of the runs and he went everywhere as fast as he could go. He converted it back to gasoline before I bought it. I went right back over the mountains with it when I moved to the Four Corners to work. It was all mountain driving until I moved to Texas. The rings were worn and it lost a lot of power by that time. High oil usage was setting it so I sold the little bugger.
We ran irrigation engines on natural gas but we used lubricaters on them.