Re: Diesel car conversion to vegetable oil?


"sarah" <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> RJW <ronald.weir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > "sarah" <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > > Does anyone have any direct experience of this sort of thing? Not
> > > esterified veg oil, but the conversion to allow (some) diesels to burn
> > > vegetable oil as she comes off the supermarket shelf (as it were, if
one
> > > wanted to unlawfully avoid fuel tax). An example would be the
conversion
> > > described at www.dieselveg.com
> > >
> > You could try buying a few litres of cooking oil each time you shop at
tesco
> > at 43p a litre and throw some in your nearly full tank of diesel. the
diesel
> > will cut the oil and although the viscosity will be slightly higher
> > performance isnt noticeably different.
>
> I had thought of that, but was concerned that the mixing in the tank
> wouldn't be sufficient -- I don't know how the densities differ. Problem
> is, the diesel isn't mine, it's his, and it has to remain reliably
> functional for the commute to work. It was amusing; he ended up
> accompanying me to do the weekly shop last Friday and discovered that
> extra-virgin olive oil in Waitrose costs less than diesel, even if you
> add fuel tax :-)
>
> regards
> sarah
>
I think you have to realise that the first diesel engine ran on peanut oil.

Say you have a 50 litres fuel tank and you put in 2 litres of cooking oil
that will equate to 4% bio diesel which if every one did it would soon empty
the shelves. :) My local Tesco runs out of cooking oil regularly.

The DOT know its going on but policing it is another matter. Of course you
are supposed to pay fuel duty on the oil put in the tank and used as fuel.
That naturally makes it worse per litre than pump diesel.

As for reliable transport I know someone who has being doing this for nearly
a year, the car starts every time and its reliable. They usually run the
tank down to the warning light and then fill up with pump diesel until full.
Then they use the cooking oil to fill to the brim. That's enough to give 50
miles more or so on a few pounds.

The oil being bought during normal shopping.




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