Biodiesel posting on Eng-Tips

Post by **Frank** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 10:28 am

I was checking the postings on Eng-Tips and came across this posting that you might find interesting. The title of that posting is "Vegetable oil as fuel for trucks". Eng-Tips promotes itself as an intelligent work forum for engineering professionals.

http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=7629&page=1

Frank

86Chevy · Post by **86Chevy** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 10:56 pm

I am a studying heavy duty technician, a friend of mine and myself found a recipe for bio diesel and we made about ten gallons out of old vegetable oil. It was a surprisingly simple process. We ran it in a 12 valve cummins and it seemed to work just fine with no noticable loss in power.

Eskimo · Post by **Eskimo** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 8:35 am

I'm a member of several waste veggy oil boards, and I'm in the process of securing my oil source, before I convert my truck to a 2-tank system.

A few friends of mine are ahead of me and have already converted their trucks... I'm just too lazy to collect & filter old oil (and have NO room to setup a filtering station at home), so I'm working on a batch of new (virgin) canola oil that's just past its "shelf date" for food use.. but the catch is, it's 8,000 gallons or none..

Bio blends from veggy oils have been shown to decrease wear metals as much as nearly 50% too, which helps longevity..

a few links:

www.frybrid.com (they have a forum too)
http://biodiesel.infopop.cc/groupee/forums (The biggest Bio / WVO forum I've found)