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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.
Best of luck.
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This man has some interesting things. I think the kit was 395.00 for my pickup. On the WVO subject, it seems there was someone not too far from here that was having a problem with the road tax issue. I never heard how it came out. Frank.
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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.
Best of luck.
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My cousin burns a mix of fuel oil and waste oil in a converted oil furnace in his farm shop. I think all he did was change to a different nozzel size. There used to be a truck that came around once a year or so buying waste oil for ten cents a gallon for re refining. You had to have a minimum amount and a way to pump it on him. I haven't seen him for several years, so I don't know if they still do that or not. Lots of interesting things to discuss. Frank.
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