using cooking oil
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using cooking oil
Anyone running cooking oil in thier truck- Did some reasearch on converting cooking oil to be used in a diesel truck- involves heating methanol with oil in a water heater tank, another site has an additive that you add to the cooking oil - both say you can produce "fuel" for .46 cents a gallon. Anyone running this stuff? Will it hurt my truck? what about performance stuff using this "fuel"?
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From: markham, ontario, canada
it's called biodiesel... if it is made right, it is good fuel, if it is made wrong, you get a gooey mess...
you basically use waste cooking oil, methanol and lye... the lye strips the glycerine out of the waste oil and a mentanol molicule replaces the glycerine. the glycerine will settle out to the bottom. then the fuel is washed and let to dry.
if i had the space, i would brew my own bio fuel, but i don't have the space currently
you basically use waste cooking oil, methanol and lye... the lye strips the glycerine out of the waste oil and a mentanol molicule replaces the glycerine. the glycerine will settle out to the bottom. then the fuel is washed and let to dry.
if i had the space, i would brew my own bio fuel, but i don't have the space currently
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If you had an earlier Dodge you could get a grease kit from a place like www.greasel.com Run straight WVO. Met a retired Marine on Pendleton at the fuel station that had the kit. Start the truck on diesel, wait for the engine to warm up and switch over to the grease. A few minutes prior to shutdown, switch back to #2 to make sure all the grease is out of the fuel lines and shut it down. He was filling up with #2 and said that the last time he'd filled up was two weeks prior north of the Grapevine. Got all his WVO from local resturants for free.
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From: Montana City, Montana
WVO
I have been running Waste Vegtetable Oil for a year now. This is NOT bio-diesel I'm running but filtered Waste Vegetable Oil (WVO) nearly 22k miles.
If you are interested at least check out the first two posts at;
http://biodiesel.infopop.cc/eve/ubb....51&f=159605551
The best kits available IMHO are at;
www.frybrid.com
I have some schematics on converting a 12 valver available. If you are interesred please drop me a line. No charge. These are a new design, just released. I had an older design but no longer offer it, if you recieved one of these and would like an updated version, drop me a line.
E-adderss in profile. These are PFD files.
Ken Gardner
If you are interested at least check out the first two posts at;
http://biodiesel.infopop.cc/eve/ubb....51&f=159605551
The best kits available IMHO are at;
www.frybrid.com
I have some schematics on converting a 12 valver available. If you are interesred please drop me a line. No charge. These are a new design, just released. I had an older design but no longer offer it, if you recieved one of these and would like an updated version, drop me a line.
E-adderss in profile. These are PFD files.
Ken Gardner
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