I read this thing about Vegie oil being used, is this actually true?

 

Its true, but the fuel(veg oil) has to be filtered and prepared for proper combustion.<br><br>--Justin

 

Check out this website, it's pretty interesting. http://www.greasel.com

 

Hi King,<br>This is my first posting, so I hope I get it right.<br>I believe you are referring to biodiesel, which is made from vegetable oil and is a direct replacement for diesel fuel. I am in fact running my '03 2500 on 80% biodiesel, 20% petrodiesel, and I love the stuff. If you punch in &quot;biodiesel&quot; on your net browser you will find out a lot more than I can tell you here, but feel free to email me and I can give you some specifics. Performance is the same, mileage has dropped a bit but I'm told a timing adjustment will help that. Grown in America, smells like McDonalds.

 

What's the advantages of running Big Mac juice?? Is it the cost??

 

isnt biodiesel more expensive? ???

 

Yes, it's costing me $2.70 a gallon in 50 gallon drums, but I'm going to cut back to a 50/50 blend to cut cost for now. I'm hoping the prices will continue to drop and availability will increase with time. I'm willing to pay more for fuel when I look at the benefits, mainly a cleaner fuel system, higher lubricity (much), and big time pollution reduction, plus I hope it's paying some farmer a decent dividend somewhere.<br>Diesel was over two bucks here last winter......<br>There's lots of biodiesel info on the net, including exhaustive long term studies using Cummins 5.9's. They're burning it in Yellowstone and other Nat'l Parks, and I'm pretty confident that it's gonna make my engine last longer.

 

[quote author=Buzz link=board=7;threadid=17562;start=0#164717 date=1059362981]<br>What's the advantages of running Big Mac juice?? Is it the cost??<br>[/quote]You smell like super-sized french fries behind you.

 

That's a whole bunch better than Big Mac methane! ;D

 

Well see ive kind of looked into biodiesel, not much though, what i was talking about (discovery channel) and found a lil since is the straight vegie fuel. Uses a spare tank poor used (cleaned) oil in and use it for fuel. You have to put a heater coil or run your engine coolant through the tank to warm up the oil but then after you get it warm you can use just that and then a little bit before you get to your stop point you run for 5 min or so on regular diesel to clean out the system and make sure there isnt any problems....... But they did it on a VW, which had Indirect injection and i just cant find anything for cummins or other main diesels in trucks. My brother works at Mc Ds haha and i already talked to the owner of that branch and he said i could just take their used oil, sicne it cost them to get rid of it anyway so thats couple gallons a day so it wouldnt be bad if i knew it would work. I did find that it works better with Mech injection instead of the electrical so who knows.

 

I'm not sure I'd use the straight waste oil though, unless I had an older VW or something, but no way in my new baby. I'm using only virgin soy based biodiesel. <br>There's lots of info on making bio from waste oil on the net though....<br>By the way, I think mine smells just like you're standing outside a McDonald's, they're not kidding. NO SOOT!

 

Very true i wouldnt be doing it in a new truck like yours haha, Im not even gonna do it to my 99. Love it too much. But im lookin at buying a older 12v for these kind of things. performance ect. Im not even sure if it would work the best on a cummins. like ya said the old vw which is what all the other cars out there are doing it on. Maybe ill do it ot my Chevette. its a 4cyl diesel but not running....... hum oh well Thanks everyone

 

do a search on biodiesel and see what u come up with there are lots more refining processes done to biodiesel than just plain veggie oil. Much plumbing needs to be done to run straight veggie oil and u still need a diesel tank to get started then you switch over to the veggie tank. vegtable oil contains sugars that will eventually destroy your injection pump this is one of the main difference as compared to biodiesel.