Hydrogen as a fuel

[Mike61]

Have a 1972 Series III with 2.1/4 gas engine and zinith carb. Has anyone converted this engine to run on Hydrogen using one of the Hydrogen generators now on the market?

[greenmeanie]

Have a 1972 Series III with 2.1/4 gas engine and zinith carb. Has anyone converted this engine to run on Hydrogen using one of the Hydrogen generators now on the market?

As they are hokus pokus and witchcraft the answer is no. Do a little research and you'll find the only number that is improved is the seller's bank account.

I found this system to do a much better job:
http://www.hotrodders.com/forum/methane-instead-hydrogen-144174.html

From the EPA:
http://www.hotrodders.com/forum/miracle-gas-saving-pollution-ending-devices-145545.html

[thixon]

As they are hokus pokus and witchcraft the answer is no. Do a little research and you'll find the only number that is improved is the seller's bank account.

I found this system to do a much better job:
http://www.hotrodders.com/forum/methane-instead-hydrogen-144174.html

From the EPA:
http://www.hotrodders.com/forum/miracle-gas-saving-pollution-ending-devices-145545.html

Sarcasm...I love it!

[SafeAirOne]

I dunno about hydrogen generators...I think that's still an emerging technology that hasn't been efficiently successful yet. I suppose hokus pokus and witchcraft are good terms to describe devices CURRENTLY available to consumers.

When fuel prices (taxes) went crazy back in the UK some years ago, there was a huge shift to diesel engines AND LP gas conversion/augmentation systems. There are dozens of these tried and true LP gas systems available in the UK. Just head to Barnes & Noble and pick up any Land Rover magazine from the UK (Land Rover Monthly, Land Rover World, etc., if you can stomach the now $10 cost of the mags), and you'll see plenty of ads for these systems. I don't know about one for a 2.25 engine, though. Most of 'em are for the modern rover engines.

Here are a few expamples:

http://www.arunautogas.co.uk/autogas_lpg_conversion.htm

http://www.tinleytech.co.uk/

[Leslie]

http://home.att.net/~chuckayoub/Led_Zeppelin_I.jpg

[lrdukdog]

It would be nice to have a doable natural gas type conversion. I am sure that my 109 SW wouls have room for the tanks required. In fact lets call our gov't reps and demand that they use OUR MONEY to initiate the retrofitting of gas stations with another pump. 1- for gasoline, 1- for diesel, 1- for natural gas.
Jim Wolf
Elvenwood Kennel

[Leslie]

Uh...... doesn't WV and PA already have a lot of LPG stations around?

We've just gotten some E85 stations here, but I'm not gonna start using the stuff unless they get cellulostic versions up and running, that are price-competitive w/o having subsidies involved.... (my pickup is flexfuel....)

[lrdukdog]

I mean the whole country. I am in VA and while I am sure there are LPG places there aren't many or enought to make it a fuel the is convenient to use. All the natural gas co. vehicles are using it as fuel.
Jim Wolf
Elvenwood kennel

[LaneRover]

In response to the Led Zeppelin cover featuring the Hindenburg, hydrogen is probably less explosive then gasoline. In fact it tends to just float away harmlessly in an accident. I think that Mythbusters proved that is was possible that part of the Hindenburg fire was a 'thermite' reaction.

Brent

[thixon]

In response to the Led Zeppelin cover featuring the Hindenburg, hydrogen is probably less explosive then gasoline. In fact it tends to just float away harmlessly in an accident. I think that Mythbusters proved that is was possible that part of the Hindenburg fire was a 'thermite' reaction.

Brent

Actually,
They concluded that a thermite reaction was not the cause of the hindenburg distaster. While the thermite skin did burn, the model containing hydrogen burned twice as fast as the model without hydrogen.

The myth was listed as "busted," but in this case, the myth in question was that a thermite reaction was actually the cause of the dramatic fire caught on film.

Yes, I'm a dork.