More than one way to skin a cat :)
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Originally Posted by kie4
Hi Bill, I used it for 3 years ish in my 200tdi and for 6month to date in my 300 tdi . I put veggie oil from the supermarket straight into the main fuel tank and it works fine.
Have you seen a program called Top Gear, its a really good motoring program on the tv. They done a test on a Volvo , drained the tank and the fuel lines /pipes etc, put filtered used veggie oil into the tank and drove away. unless its really cold there isnt a problem with burning veggie oil.
The diesel engine was designed to burn oil, not diesel. diesel came along much later.
Cheers
Richard
G'day Richard,
When you say:
The diesel engine was designed to burn oil, not diesel. diesel came along much later.
You're telling me nothing new ;)
As an old deep sea marine engineer, we would use diesel for running our boiler, manoeuvring the ship in port, coming into or leaving port but once we were under-way, we would change to heavy black oil for running our "diesels". The heavy oil had to be heated in the holding tanks before being pumped up to the fuel tanks and from the fuel tanks it would be fed to our 14,000 HP (or whatever HP) "diesel" engine/s.
That heavy black oil was so thick you could shovel it! We could never have used it as fuel if we did not thin it first by heating it. :o
Once the heavy oil was in our header tanks, it was kept heated and had to be drained of water every hour on the hour. (The water build-up was caused by condensation from keeping the oil warm in the holding tanks)
On smaller commercial coastal vessels, trawlers and motor yachts that I worked on, the fuel was strictly diesel, this was and is due, I believe, to lack of space to store and handle heavy oil as fuel on small craft. I do know that's its much cheaper to run a vessel on heavy oil than on diesel and that's why heavy oil is used as the main fuel on large merchant ships.
At present I’m trialling a few fuel saving items, one is a pill that is placed in the fuel tank before I fill-up each time, the pill can be used with petrol, diesel, biodiesel or cooking oil and will not alter the fuels chemistry, in fact it’s more of an engine treatment than a fuel additive. I have already trialled the pill in my Ford Fairlane and I’m real happy with the results, now I’ll be testing the pills in my Disco 300TDI. ;)
I have already completed the first part of the test, which started with me driving from Corio in Victoria to Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, picked-up a pop-top caravan and brought it back to Corio.
I travelled 3,643KM in total, and I used 390.97L of diesel which equates to 10.74L per 100KM, 1,851KM was covered pulling a caravan and I used two tanks of Biodiesel, plus I drove at 110-120KMPH heading up north and 100–110 KMPH most of the way home with the van in tow.
I am now doing a run-a-bout-town test on one tank of diesel and when that is finished I’ll be doing another run-a-bout-town test with a tank of diesel but I’ll add the pill to this lot of fuel for that test. Then I’ll do a third test using straight veggie oil and the fourth and final test will be on veggie oil with the pill added.
As for purchasing cooking oils?
I have contacted a few companies, PDF included, seeking to purchase 1,000 or 1,200L of canola, sunflower, veggie, coconut or a mixture of those oils; either pure or contaminated, i.e. unfit for human consumption but so far even the big wholesalers, including PDF, say, they only supply 20L drums.
Each company also ask why I want such a large quantity, I tell them it’s for experimental purposes and so-far only PDF say they will see if they can help me find the oil in the quantity I’m looking for.
Anyway, we’ll see how we go and I’ll publish my finding on the forum.
If the engine treatment pills I mentioned earlier in this post work in my diesel half as good as they worked in the petrol Fairlane, then you can bet your life I’ll be using the pill in my Disco 300TDI fuel to save me even more money :D
Cheers mate,
kando...Bill from Corio
