Veggie diesel
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Veggie diesel
Anybody looking into converting there diesel to vegetable oil. I saw it in the paper the other day about how some people have been using waste vegetable oil as a alternate fuel. I guess basically you have to have dual tanks. The first has diesel the second is modified to pump hot coolant through the sides of it. After you drive for 10- 15 minutes on diesel then at that time the vegetable oil is warmed up enough to where is thin enough to be processed by your engine and you just switch tanks. From the article, the idea came from england where a care was modified to run on rapeseed oil. Anyways I thought that it was interesting any one else hear about it?????
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We Have a dude in Ontario runs his Mecedes diesel on used restaurant oils (transfats)daedly to our systems yet viable enough to operate an engine>
Let us kno where you found this or if you find more info.I just can't see an equal horsepower out of a veggy yet I have been wrong before!
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Let us kno where you found this or if you find more info.I just can't see an equal horsepower out of a veggy yet I have been wrong before!
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It is suppose to have the same amount of horsepower and torque, due to once the oil reaches higer temperatures then the density is the same. From what I heard though there is no reall way to run full vegetable oil yet due to coating plus you have to have the oil heated or thinned to pass through the injectors. The benefit that I really heard is that it easily doubles the engines life due to the lubricant qualities and burns cleaner (when oil at right temperatures) then diesel, plus french fry flavord exhaust (mickey ds anyone). The article that I read told of 2 guys who drove there bus a "greasel" from somewhere near NY to CA and back. I really think that it would be cool though, but I guess that it cost 500 plus for the conversion
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I've done a conversion on my truck
During last summer, it runs great on veggie oil, I drove a couple hundred miles on veggie oil in the summer. No problem at all. I went away for a couple month, when I came back, it's cold, I've been having problems since...
The hard part is filtering the oil good enough to pass the IP without harming it or clog it with chicken bits. It cost almost nothing on my Ford, just some hoses, fittings and clamps.
Veggie oil has much lower emission, compare to the foreign oil.
If you are interested to know more, this is the site I ofen visit.
http://biodiesel.infopop.cc/6/ubb.x?...51&f=159605551
The hard part is filtering the oil good enough to pass the IP without harming it or clog it with chicken bits. It cost almost nothing on my Ford, just some hoses, fittings and clamps.
Veggie oil has much lower emission, compare to the foreign oil.
If you are interested to know more, this is the site I ofen visit.
http://biodiesel.infopop.cc/6/ubb.x?...51&f=159605551
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yes it will work, and will run clean and and will lubricate your injection system (once reaching proper operating temp.)
but what you have to worry about is the blowby. All engines have some amount of blowby, and when the veg. oil blows-by then it mixes with your engine oil NOT GOOD. it will turn your engine oil into jello form (more or less) i sent greasel.com an email concerning this and recieved no reply......hmmmm
anyway...goodluck
but what you have to worry about is the blowby. All engines have some amount of blowby, and when the veg. oil blows-by then it mixes with your engine oil NOT GOOD. it will turn your engine oil into jello form (more or less) i sent greasel.com an email concerning this and recieved no reply......hmmmm
anyway...goodluck
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yes it will work, and will run clean and and will lubricate your injection system (once reaching proper operating temp.)
but what you have to worry about is the blowby. All engines have some amount of blowby, and when the veg. oil blows-by then it mixes with your engine oil NOT GOOD. it will turn your engine oil into jello form (more or less) i sent greasel.com an email concerning this and recieved no reply......hmmmm
anyway...goodluck
but what you have to worry about is the blowby. All engines have some amount of blowby, and when the veg. oil blows-by then it mixes with your engine oil NOT GOOD. it will turn your engine oil into jello form (more or less) i sent greasel.com an email concerning this and recieved no reply......hmmmm
anyway...goodluck
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I run a mix of 80/20 80% waste veg. oil ( wvo ) and 20% kerosene in my second tank.
Check out the infopop sit elisted above. Forum members danalinscott and kugelshicher (sp?) have IH IDI engines running on free used fryer oil.
Check out the infopop sit elisted above. Forum members danalinscott and kugelshicher (sp?) have IH IDI engines running on free used fryer oil.
