Spark plug and ignition voltage requirements were determined for a typical medium duty truck engine in four configurations: production gasoline version; dual gasoline-LPG carburetion; full LP-gas conversion; full LP-gas conversion with compression ratio increased from 7.6 to 8.93:1.This paper shows that spark plugs only one range colder should be used when converting from gasoline to LP-gas operation. Very cold running plugs are undesirable because of the higher sparking voltage requirements.Cylinder-to-cylinder variations in spark plug temperature were also found to be much greater using LP-gas.


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    Title :

    What Propane Engines Say About Spark Plugs


    Additional title:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Mid-Year Meeting ; 1965



    Publication date :

    1965-02-01




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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