Re: [Amc-list] E-85 Conversion and bio-diesal

["Bruce Griffis" <bruce.griffis@xxxxxxxxx>]

My son sold a small wooden sailboat he fixed up a while ago. The guy
that bought it had a big Ford 4 door pickup he converted to SVO
(straight vegetable oil, or French Fry Grease). The truck had 2 fuel
tanks. He warmed the truck up with diesel, then switched to SVO after
it was warm. He switched back to diesel before getting home or to work
to clear the SVO out of the lines. He bought a Volkswagen Jetta diesel
for his wife, and converted that to SVO as well. He had a second tank
mounted in the trunk of the Jetta.

He got his oil from a local Chinese restaurant, and had more SVO than
he could  burn in his two vehicles. That made me really think about my
old 1959 Mercedes 190D (think it was a '59) with a four speed column
shifted transmission. I don't think older diesels can run SVO, though
- not without changing out all the hoses.

Anyway - keep researching it! You might find a local free source of
vegetable oil to fuel your company's trucks.

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 4:14 PM, russ hathaway <russh97309@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Converting your diesal to dio-diesal isn't as easy as
>  just dumping the stuff into yer tank.
>  I have not done this personally but I have followed
>  the "trend" rather closely, as there will probably
>  come a time when I will do so and I don't want to be
>  caught with my britchs down.
>  As I understand it, the biggest obstacle in using
>  French Fry Grease, for lack of a better term, is to
>  warm it first. Some people run regular diesal from a
>  small seperate tank to get going then switch to FFG
>  after it warms for the rest of the trip. You have to
>  slightly modify your fuel delivery size and do some
>  timing issues. But that is it as far as I know. If
>  someone knows first hand, please post as I follow all
>  the bio-fuel for future referance, plus I am trying to
>  convince my boss to retro fit his trucks. Bio-fuel is
>  big around here, but is actually more expensive than
>  regular diesal.
>  So since FFG isn't as easy as just dumping in the
>  fuel, neither is E85, though everything is worth
>  taking seriously as the writing is on the wall towards
>  alternate fuels......Russ
>
>
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