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    Cuting wvo with petrol

    As the title suggests is any one cutting there wvo with petrol if so what ratio? It's starting to cool off here and I don't want any starting trouble from the oil being too viscous

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    bad plan, it fractions out. you can use a little as you fill (the motion of the vehicle will help stop it from factioning in the tank and once its in the lines and pumps its not such a huge problem)

    cut it with diesel or kero instead.

    I used to use about 5% 10l in a 44 gallon drum before filling the drum but I would only put it in a drum that was going to go straight into the vehicle. At most it only ever stood around for half a day while one or the other vehicles was out and about and couldnt be filled on the spot, the left overs would go into a jerry with a sign on it saying shake before use.
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    Cheers mate that's how I planed on doing it. I've been useing diesel but I can get ulp throu work for the right price so I'm happy to store my oil in plastic jerrys in the shed and mix on filling. But is there an issue with the ethanol in the petrol? I have heard all sorts of stuff about it mainly because its hygroscopic.

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    thats why your engine has a fuel water seperator in the fuel system.

    Dont be tempted to try to mix on the way into the tank...

    The setup I used on the pump to ensure my fuel was always mixed was to have the fuel delivery line T pieced. Fuel to the tank came off of the leg of the T and the other side ran back into the drum with a restrictor, this provided agitation inside the drum (mind you my pump was also capable of emptying a 44 in less than 3 minutes so dropping the delivery rate wasnt a bad thing.
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    I read somewhere you use a ps pump I haven't gone to that extent I might just bite the bullet and mix more diesel with it kero here is like gold used to be able to buy it by the litre at the servo out of an overhead tank now its by the litre bottle at bunnings 10x the price there's not even a fuel depot here anymore

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    thats what Im currently using its got a similar setup in concept but its achieved differently.
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    mmm Dave does your 'kero' happen to have FS11 in it?

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    might be avtur?
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    sometimes,

    theres a couple of local flying clubs that help out I get their drain drum occasionally. (which occasionally has a lot more avgas in it than Id like so that gets thickened up with a little used engine oil stirred well and flowed on a hot day with the drum unbunged and nowhere near any source of ignition)

    ATM Im running a mix of 50:50 dieso, WVO, and whatever else happens to be on hand.

    on the project board is a centrifuge filter
    Dave

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    For spelling call Rogets, for mechanicing call me.

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    Archaeoptersix 1990 6x6 dual cab(This things staying)


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    Thin with diesel or kero, or avtur if you can...but not petrol. Or add a heating system of some kind, in the tank or preferably outboard. Done properly, you can use lard that's solid at room temperature... Running a double tank system is the sensible way to go.

    Then again, seeing as it's only a land rover engine, do it with el cheapo ULP or any solvent.....

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