Who is running 100% veggie oil?

[mhenon]

You can mix in 10-20% SVO to #2 and stay within the viscosity of biodiesel.

I am not saying you should do it!, especially on a 24v engine.



DO IT AT YOUR OWN RISK!



But if you do you should mix the diesel and SVO together first, let it settle, then if it doesn't make any waxes add in the mixture to our tank. If it does form some waxes filter them out and resettle again. Repeat as necessary.



All the filtering should be done cold IE room temperature.



As a final note virtually all studies that have been done on running straight SVO in a diesel engine have had bad results when using unheated SVO.



Just because most diesels will run on SVO doesn't mean you should continue to do it and not have to face problems if you don't have a well designed conversion to heat the SVO.

All good points! Also keep in mind how temperature and driving conditions might effect your use of SVO.

If your running down the highway in southern Arizona with ambient temps of 110 degrees... your engine will digest SVO like candy. Cruising the Mall of America, Mn in the winter with 30% SVO and you "will" have problems.

As for long term effects. . I've never read anything good about SVO and engine reliability... especially in modern, direct injected diesel engines. If anyone ever designed an engine to run on vegetable oil. . I'll bet it wouldn't look like a Cummins ISB 5. 9L.

Mike