Diesel to straight vegtable oil conversion

[SMalafy]

:--) Has anyone tried using the conversion kit to burn straight vegtable oil ? I was looking at one site called GREASEL and they refered Dodge diesel owners to this site. Is there any articles in the register that I might have missed about this ?

 

[jcarey]

There's a pretty good discussion about what some members are doing on this thread:

https://www.turbodieselregister.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=103124

 

[Headshot zod]

Greasel has a decent kit from what I have read. Particularly if you have a 12valver. They are getting the bugs out of their 24v kit. They also have a really nice coolant heated custom tank for the back of your p-up, pricey looks a nice solution. We really need a separate "BIO-DIESEL" forum here.



Try dumping 'bio-diesel", "biodiesel" and "vegetable oil" in the "search forums" here.



Other links if you want to do some ancillary reading... ...



Greasel



Diesel Veg



Elsbett



Grease Car



Grease Works



Hemp Car



Veg Burner



Captain Morgan



Morgan has a few TV interviews you can watch.....



BioFuels Canada



Journey To Forever



lots of odd reading lots on biodiesel, seed oil output etc at Journey to Forever



Aussie Farmer who grows and makes B20



Veggie Van



Veggie Van 11 minute movie

 

[mhenon]

Running SVO

SMalafy, There have been many studies done on running SVO in a modern direct injection diesel engine. The don't hold up too well on long term testing. Things just start to foul up. Short term you can't hardly tell the difference between SVO and diesel #2.

The older indirect injected engines with mechanical fuel pumps and heated oils did just fine.

I would be real careful about running straight veggie oil in our Cummins (24 valve and later) for any length of time. There's no doubt it will burn it... but for how long.

Mixing a small percentage of SVO and diesel #2... now thats a different story. Depending on the blend ratio you might go a long time before anything fouled up (injector fouling, cylinder wall glazing, etc. ).

If you have a new "High pressure Common Rail" engine there's going to be more issues. I don't know if it will run SVO or not... I think not.

If you're going to play around with SVO or WVO (I do) do your homework and know what your getting into. I would hate to see somebody screw a new rig up just for playing around with french fry oil. It ain't worth it.

But, if you do know whats happening it sure is an easy way to beat the latest fuel price increases. If you're paying $2. 00 a gallon for #2 and can get used oil for free and only add 10%... brings the price down to $1. 80. Not too shabby and a 10% blend shouldn't hurt anything. . if it's clean oil.

Anyway, look around the web. . there's lots of info out there.



Mike