Bio Diesel

[Guest buster321c]

Does anybody use bio diesel , or even , cooking oil ? Personally i use regular diesel , but people are using bio and there is even a garage near my place of work where they can do something to your car so it runs on cooking oil ,so lets hear your thoughts , do you or dont you ? would you or would`nt you ?

[daz 0]

mate of mine uses cooking oil mixed with diesal in his old astra seems to run nobother i think you have to change filters more often also uses heating oil

[spudlington 3]

I'm starting to look into this myself as i'm considering getting a Land Rover 110 pick-up and running on biodiesel would make it a more realistic proposition financially! My understanding of it is that most older diesel engines can run on a mix of normal diesel and vegetable oil with no modification to the engine, i've heard that 30% vegetable oil seems to have no adverse affect on the engine.

To run on pure vegetable oil i think requires a few changes to your engine. Also to use waste oil from your local chippy you need to process the oil before use to remove impurities and bits of cod. You can buy units to do this and the outlay on buying them would be worth it considering you'd be getting your fuel pretty much for free after that. There was an article on this in a land rover mag recently, i think the site they mentioned was http://www.greenfuels.co.uk

I've only just started looking into this so i'm open to correction on the above. Would love to hear from any members with more experience or knowledge of this.

 

Spud

[Tel1 26]

mix a pint of engine oil to 5 gallon of kerosine (heating oil)

[trappa 518]

My last van was a diesel and i used a cooking oil/diesel mix and it drove great. In the warmer months i was using up to 70% cooking oil, and in the colder months around 30%.

I started by sticking 1 litre in a full tank of diesel, then 2 etc.

I didnt have any form of modification- it was just a plain ford fiesta van 1.8 diesel

And you get slightly better miles to the gallon on oil than diesel!!!

[Ratman2 2]

mix a pint of engine oil to 5 gallon of kerosine (heating oil)

 

Just to add as a warning, 2500ltrs of cooking oil per year is legal, kerosene and claret are illegal

[DiStuRBeD 0]

i use biodiesel here in australia, same mileage, same power, just cheaper

 

only downside is the smell, you get so bloody hungry from it, smells like fish and chips

[spudlington 3]

i use biodiesel here in australia, same mileage, same power, just cheaper

 

only downside is the smell, you get so bloody hungry from it, smells like fish and chips

 

What modifications did you need to make to your engine? Do you use "clean" veggie oil or used stuff from a chippy?

 

Spud

[DDD 4]

Before you put SVO or WVO in your tank check which fuel pump you have, Land Rovers fitted with Bosh type pump are ok however problems arise when you have a Lucas type pump.

 

Expect to change your fuel filters more often (initially anyway) when using SVO and as someone has already stated you have to filter WVO and if I remember correctly you have to put a percentage of alcohol in it & leave it for a while to do it's business.

 

Reason for filter changes - SVO drags all the sh&t out of your tank & lines that you didn't even know was there.

 

Pre heat options are available for 100% SVO as it's thicker when cold.

 

Hope this helps (there is a wealth of info out there on this subject).

 

Cheers

Dave

[earth&hounds 94]

Before you put SVO or WVO in your tank check which fuel pump you have, Land Rovers fitted with Bosh type pump are ok however problems arise when you have a Lucas type pump.

 

Expect to change your fuel filters more often (initially anyway) when using SVO and as someone has already stated you have to filter WVO and if I remember correctly you have to put a percentage of alcohol in it & leave it for a while to do it's business.

 

Reason for filter changes - SVO drags all the sh&t out of your tank & lines that you didn't even know was there.

 

Pre heat options are available for 100% SVO as it's thicker when cold.

 

Hope this helps (there is a wealth of info out there on this subject).

 

Cheers

Dave

get your self some red derv its cheaper than bio and cooking oil just dont get catched

[Irish Lurcher 1,013]

I surpose it would be handy running it on cooking oil, cause if you broke down you could fry some chips while your waiting.

[spudlington 3]

bump!

[Guest buster321c]

ok guys im gonna get some bio in the bugger and see how it goes !!

[Caravan Monster 323]

I know someone who runs his old LDV van on 50% diesel/ 50% veg oil no problems. Peugeot 1.9 engine in it as I remember.

 

Another option is the petrol vehicles which were converted to LPG when that was the next big thing a few years back. They didn' t hold their value- recently saw an LPG converted Subaru Legacy for under a grand. LPG still a bit cheaper at the pumps, or a great deal cheaper for farmers who happen to run gas corn driers.

[Geoff.C 0]

All you diesel drivers are probably using some bio-diesel already without realizing. The govt. allows the petrol companies to blend in up to 10% of bio oil into diesel without advertising the fact. Most are only adding about 5% at present, and it is usually new oil, not reclaimed chip oil. It can come from anywhere, and be produced from any oil bearing crop, like palm oil, rape seed etc.