marktigere1
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| posted on 14/9/05 at 08:19 AM |
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If you have a Lucas injection pump on your diesel engine then running straight veg with no preheat will shag it big time. Well documented etc.
etc.
If you have the Bosch or equivalent you can get away with it although some form of pre heat still makes it easier to use.
All info you need is here: http://biodiesel.infopop.cc/6/ubb.x?a=cfrm&s=447609751
I run Biodiesel with no mods but my ip pump is Bosch so I could run veg if the chips were down
Cheers
Mark
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indykid
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| posted on 14/9/05 at 09:03 AM |
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boom boom
tom
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tadltd
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| posted on 14/9/05 at 09:52 AM |
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I heard that one of the risks associated with veg oil is that you might FRY your clutch...!
Best Regards,
Steve.
www.turnerautosport.com
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marktigere1
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| posted on 14/9/05 at 09:59 AM |
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Think I'll chew the fat on some of these replies
Then veg out for the rest of the day
Mark
PS. Here we go...........
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NS Dev
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| posted on 14/9/05 at 12:25 PM |
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I have posted about this before.........
you can run diesels on heating oil with no bother. You must add a small % of engine oil to it to keep the injection pump lubed correctly (think around
2% but can look this up)
Heating oil is not dyed.
Do they do a full chemistry check or is the test just colour based? i.e. would heating oil pass. I heard about an oil distributor running their
tankers on it but the ministry actually had to film them filling up to get them.
Anyhow, just drive a £250 sierra diesel and run it on heating oil. If they catch you, they can crush the car!!!! Buy another one.
Alternative for petrols is LPG conversion, followed by a bulk lpg tank in the garden and using that for your central heating. Just add a takeoff to
the pipe to fill the car's tank as well! I know of somebody doing this very nicely. Used to use propane cylinders but the bulk tank was much
more convenient!
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Russ-Turner
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| posted on 14/9/05 at 01:07 PM |
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http://www.dieselsecret.com/
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marktigere1
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| posted on 14/9/05 at 01:47 PM |
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Looks like a solvent thats supposed to thin veg oil.
Been tried in this country with a whole load of stuffed ip pumps to prove the stuff is total crap.
Wouldn't touch it with a barge pole.
Biodiesel takes the free fatty acids out of veg to make it thinner. This looks well dodgy to me.
Still, you pays yer money.......
Mark
PS. Using white spirit as shown on Top Gear is illegal apparently.
PPS. Go here http://biodiesel.infopop.cc/6/ubb.x?a=cfrm&s=447609751 and search for Dieselsecret to see what people think.
[Edited on 14/9/05 by marktigere1]
If a bolt is stuck force it.
If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway!!!
(My Dad 1991)
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givemethebighammer
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| posted on 14/9/05 at 08:50 PM |
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http://www.dieselveg.com/conversion%20info.htm
offer conversion to run your car on veg oil.
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Peteff
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| posted on 14/9/05 at 09:40 PM |
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The Top Gear test ran a Mercedes diesel on vegetable oil with white spirit added. It was conducted by the AA and was said to run better than on pump
diesel.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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clbarclay
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| posted on 17/9/05 at 04:46 PM |
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For those of you that use petrol (not too many diesel sports cars about) you can always goe the brazilian way and run cars on 50% or more ethanol
mixed in with the pertrol. Not sure of any side effects on engines but the brazlians have been doing it for quite some time know.
Any body thinking of taking the die out of red diesel, don't bother. Theres more to it than colour (other additives). you might as well use it
straught and pray you don't get caught or just pay the road tax on it (so it costs the same).
To legal run home grown/made fuels IIRC you can down load the forms online fill them in and post them off with a check to pay for the road tax.
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JoelP
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| posted on 17/9/05 at 06:05 PM |
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if you did that you'd only save 30%, probably not worth the risk of using shady fuels! If you follow those links theres a tale from one guy who
blew $3k on a new fuel system when crud built up and ruined it!
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