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Can gasoline pickup be converted to burn E-85
Frank, I came across this on a fabrication board I belong to.
Apparently you can buy a micro-chip thing-ama-bobble to convert almost any vehicle to run on E-85 or almost anything else now.
Have a look and see what you think.
(This is not an endorsement, I only found the site through the owner Brad Miller, I have nothing to do with it.)
Best of luck.
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Can gasoline pickup be converted to burn E-85
Randy, I was thinking pretty much the same thing. I buy a kit, then I buy corn and propane, then all the time and effort to make it.
Unless you count alcohol production as a hobby I can't see a reason for doing it myself.
Homemade (reprocessed) bio-diesel is another story. I have a neighbour at the farm who collects and reprocessed a LOT of gallons of WVO every week. He uses it himself, in both his truck, and his 80's Mercedes car, and also blends it with convectional dino-diesel in the big trucks that his sons drive for a living.
He claims he is saving 10's of thousands a year doing so.
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Can gasoline pickup be converted to burn E-85
The old guy says if it's filtered well you can run a 75% (dino-diesel) 25% straight WVO blend no problem at all.
He says in warm weather he runs (filtered) 100% WVO in his Mercedes all the time, no problem at all. All he did was make a heat exchanger to preheat the WVO using the water line that would normally run to the heater core.
I've also read in many other places of people merely giving WVO a real good filtering and pouring it straight into both diesel engines and oil furnaces as a blend with conventional fuels.
I know some of the 'diesel' fuel we have gotten in a few of the far off places we've done jobs was pretty marginal stuff. You lose horsepower, but the engine runs alright.
Might be worth an experiment in the old crane truck.
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Frank, that's why they are blending it, especially in the commercially plated trucks.
There is an exemption that allows you to run up to a certain percentage of "additives" to the fuel. There is no road tax on 'additives' or 'fuel supplements'.
They are using the arguement that low sulphur diesel is hard on the engines, which it is, and so by running a 10% WVO 90% Dino-diesel blend it dramatically increases the lubricity of the fuel.
At least that's their story and they're sticking to it. ;->
I suspect if they were running high percentage of WVO they too would have some legal problems.
Trucking is a very slim margin industry, a fuel savings of a little more than 10% is a huge deal. They claim BTW, that the trucks actually get better mileage running a 90/10 blend.
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