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Nov 19, 2010 | 06:38 PM

tolliewolly

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Bio Diesel

Is anyone running bio diesel here on their 6.0's?

I have a couple gallons of cooking oil I need to get rid of from the kitchen and I was going to just filter it and pour it into my tank.

My tank is mostly full of diesel now and I was just going to add these two gallons of used cooking oil to get rid of it.

Is that ok?

Nov 19, 2010 | 06:59 PM

Krump's brother

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I think it would be pretty risky to run that in your truck. Someone way more informed than I am will hopefully explain why.

If you really want to use that oil, filter it and try it as bar and chain oil. That would probably be pretty harmless, and environmentally friendly.

Nov 19, 2010 | 08:21 PM

wulfman

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From: knox Tn

to run cooking oil it has to be heated ,you also have to start and stop on diesel, so not good idea to mix them

Nov 19, 2010 | 08:28 PM

cheezit

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I hate to say what I have dumped in my tank. mostly because I want to see if it would burn.... theres a leson in this. dont do as I do.

use NOTHING that contains ANY animal fat. Thats a no-no.

Nov 19, 2010 | 08:37 PM

dschuffert

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You have to burn the organics out of used cooking oil and you have to remove any water/moisture. That is why processing WVO is a somewhat complicated process. As wulfman stated, you need to heat the WVO if the temperature lowers enough to where the oil starts solidifying or gelling. About 4 years ago I bought a processor to take WVO and clean/remove moisture to run in my 6.0. It was a lot of work for the small gain. When I got fairly clean used oil it worked well, when someone also dumped other liquids into the oil containers, I never knew how things would turn out. I ended up selling the equipment and happily buy my Diesel, either petroleum or Bio, from a commercial processor.

Nov 19, 2010 | 09:16 PM

smokersteve

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There are too many impurities in that for you to use it.

Nov 19, 2010 | 10:56 PM

Sullid01

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In addition to the comments above, WVO can get into the crankcase (blow by the piston rings) and react with the oil to make your oil into crisco. I'm sure it would take more than 2 gals of WVO -the main point really is WVO and biodiesel are very different and there are a number of additional considerations with WVO.