running on cooking oil

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Originally Posted by sheerluck

Mike, my memory of the legislation in the UK was effectively anything that could be chucked in the tank of a vehicle to power it could be considered a fuel, and was therefore expected to incur fuel duties at the appropriate rate. I remember stories on the news of people being busted for dodging the tax, for home brew biodiesel, being pulled over by a copper if their car smelt of fish and chips.....

Ok, so it was a few years since I left there, and things may have changed, but the world of excise collection normally does not.

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How long ago has it been?

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It used to be the case that to legally use Straight Vegetable Oil as a vehicle fuel you had to pay duty on every litre that you set aside for road fuel purposes. However, since July 2007 if you are using/producing less than 2500 litres per year of SVO which is not duty paid then you are not required to pay duty on this fuel. This essentially means that for a business with low mileage use or for personal motoring, provided that it is not excessive, then the use of SVO can be duty free.

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Originally Posted by mike_ie

How long ago has it been?

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May 2007 :D (though moved out here permanently in Nov 2007)

Wow. UK customs and excise changing rules. I never thought I'd see the day.

I think the opening debate was regarding the TECHNICAL issues, not whether your specific Nanny State ALLOWS you to..........:mad:

My humble apologies jakeslouw for taking the debate SO far off topic.

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Originally Posted by sheerluck

My humble apologies jakeslouw for taking the debate SO far off topic.

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Nah mate it's all good.

But with varying legalities it is a pointless exercise to debate what your specific government will do about it.

Let's stick with the physical aspects?

Jakes Louw

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Originally Posted by jakeslouw

......Let's stick with the physical aspects?

Jakes Louw

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Works for me! I piped up with my little bit, as I was reading very seriously about doing the WVO/SVO conversion back in the UK, where fuel prices are mad. But I gave up on it as the legislation was just ridiculous at the time.

Just going to shut and listen now.....:D

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Originally Posted by jakeslouw

- lubricity: yes, fair point, hence my query regarding 2SO
- taxed fuels: yes, but surely using UVO or home-brew biodiesel is bypassing the fuel supply hence also illegal? It's like fermenting methanol or ethanol in the back yard and chucking it in the 2.25 petrol Landy?
- customs and excise: in Africa we have enough work for those buggers, they don't have time to check private vehicles. Sure, they check fuel depots, but if I run my diesel engine on paraffin, nobody will know. How many C&E officers in the Outback checking fuel tanks?

IMHO if I want to run my car on hi grade jack daniels I should be allowed to......

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FWIW: check out http://www.aulro.com/afvb/technical-...uel-td5-4.html posts #31 & #32 re. use of kero ( LR did their TD5 injector development using kero as a worse case scenario). Tdi "wolf" can also use kero with some lubricating agent apparently...

Have been running used cooking oil for a while now, just have been filtering it down to 10 micron and then putting it into the tank! No heaters, no solvents.. No problems!

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Originally Posted by oddsoul

Have been running used cooking oil for a while now, just have been filtering it down to 10 micron and then putting it into the tank! No heaters, no solvents.. No problems!

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How smoothly does it run until the oil is hot?

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Originally Posted by bsperka

How smoothly does it run until the oil is hot?

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Runs well, some days it does take a few extra cranks to get it going but when it starts it is smooth running. Can take a video and show you what I mean.. Just have to wait for her to cool down now!