Gasoline will work in a diesel engine

[bgirton]

Re:http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mdieselvsgas.html

I believe that gasoline will work in a diesel engine. Gasoline should autoignite just fine when a diesel injector sprays it into a combustion chamber at temperatures and pressures that will ignite diesel. I am curious as to whether detonation would be a problem.

[Czarcasm]

I edited the title to make it readable.

[Q.E.D]

It won’t work. Gasoline is SO much more combustible and volatile than diesel oil that it will ignite much, much to early–to the point the engine will simply not run or will run extremely poorly.

[Johnny_L.A]

@Q.E.D.

Gasoline is SO much more combustible and volatile than diesel oil that it will ignite much, much to early…

From the article:

@Una

Since gasoline is designed to be resistant to self-ignition, gasoline in a diesel engine either won’t ignite or will ignite at the wrong time. Some diesel engines run leaner than gasoline engines (meaning that the air-fuel mix has a higher proportion of air than a gasoline engine). That increases the chances that the gasoline won’t ignite…