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Originally posted by 48fordguy
I am writting a paper for school how they should put lead back into gasoline. I all ready know that lead lubercates the valves. I need to know other good stuff about leaded gasoline.

thanks,
Matt

http://www.ehso.com/ehshome/Lead_How.htm:(

If the engine had been run on leaded fuel before, & the heads havent been given a valve job since that time, there is already lead imbedded into the seats, youll be just fine running unleaded.

There is no way you could propose a good argument to put lead back in gasoline. It just cushons valve seats and takes a tiny bit of extra effort to build them tough enough to do without. That's it. The alternative is saving 2 bucks on cylinder heads and in the process coating the entire PLANET in a layer of poisonous lead. Lead kills lots of things, there's a reason they banned it.
Advocating the mass usage of lead is like arguing to re-institute the usage of DDT. Remember that stuff, it worked great on bugs, unfortunately it worked a little too well and killed everything else in the process.
If we burned lead gas for the past 20 years at our current world wide oil consumption rate (80 million barrels a day) there wouldn't be a place in the whole country where you could drink well water.

ohh boo hoo

well. . . .as tough as it is to rebut a statement as well thought out and eloquently spoken as that, I think all would agree:

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How's it feel?

Originally posted by tcodi
well. . . .as tough as it is to rebut a statement as well thought out and eloquently spoken as that, I think all would agree:

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How's it feel?

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How big is the sacrifice to give up lead? Seems to be a no brainer.

Originally posted by Streets
Upgrade the heads and valves to use Unleaded or go to Canada/Mexico where they have Leaded fuel!! Ain't no racetracks around here that I know of that even sell gas!!

Leaded fuel in Canada???

None here senore'........................I think they outlawed it here, before they did in the US

what was that crap for? you people know me i was being a smartass :LOL

Oh comeon streets. You of all people should know to Trust or great Govt in every way!

I know it wasn't harmful to humans, it was killing all the birds in the areas of use. Not that I'm some kind of bird guy or something, but you can't knowingly wipe out a portion of the food chain.

i use a lead additive made by GUNK it seems to work pretty well and its only about 1.50 or so.

Some information and history about leaded gasoline can be found here.
http://www.radford.edu/~wkovarik/ethylwar/

just as a side note our parents and our parent's parents used lead gas and paint there not dead from it.

Originally posted by gassersrule_196
just as a side note our parents and our parent's parents used lead gas and paint there not dead from it.

............... and how many cars were on the road back when your parents and parents parents drove compared to today?

Originally posted by tcodi
There is no way you could propose a good argument to put lead back in gasoline. It just cushons valve seats and takes a tiny bit of extra effort to build them tough enough to do without. That's it.

It doesn't just protect valve seats. It significantly raises octane, protecting cyclinders/pistons without need to retard timing and lose power.

Your alarmism re killing off all the birds and poisoning the planet is not worth addressing.