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Does anyone else run their diesel van on cooking oil#????
I have been running my 1.6 non turbo on a mixture of 50% diesel rest oil . have no probs. cheep at .40p litre or less. no power drop[ what power....] mechanics i use say no probs. Any thoughts anyone?

Interesting, does it smell like a chip shop. I thought you had to pre-heat it first....
lhd..........

if you use it 50/50 with diesel no probs I personally think its the way the way ahead if all the the land that the goverment pays farmers to just leave be was used to grow rapesead or smilar it would relieve some of the pressure of an ever decreasing energy resource in the end even lpg which comes from the petroleum industry is going to run short if not in our life time. bio diesel is relatively easy to make which can be used neat and need's no special pre heaters as with neat veggie oil.

You can also mix in parafin--still Illeagal----cant be that good for 't engine tho---jus run it on red diesel---

so if you see a layby full of empty oil bottles...

Does anyone know the long term effect on the engine of mixing stuff with the diesel--does it do harm-shorten the engines life?-----I know the old fashioned practise of addin' paraffin or petrol to stop waxing in cold weather wernt that good for the injectors 'cos the diesel was less 'oily'---

I use a veg oil based Bio Diesel - not gone the full veg oil route yet. I will hopefully be on just veg oil next May after I've been on a course for converting engines to Veg oil running.

Does stink of chips a fair bit, but hey thats a damn site better than diesel

Watch out for the tax man as you should declare it & pay the duty, there is a good amout of info regarding this on the mits Delica web forum www.mdocuk.co.uk

THE FIRST EVER ENGINE WAS DESIGNED TO RUN ON PEANUT OIL!
COOKING OIL HAS BETTER LUBRICATION QUALITIES THAN DIESEL

Take a look at this link: http://www.dieselveg.com/ It has a lot of very interesting info. It also mentions a chap called Tickell who has done a lot of research in the USA and who drove a van accross the US using used oil fromfast food restaurants and at one point fat from a meat rendering plant.
Tony

I have all the forms to fill out to register with HM customs and I know the engine in my van runs well on veg oil and diesel blend. Was even ok cold starting with 40% diesel during the cornwall white out the other week. I am meeting a guy locally who makes biodiesel on a very small scale next week hopefully and will give that a go too.

Tried a few litres of sunflower in my old tractor.. worked ok, until the colder weather.. harder to start.. but it is old and a little worn...
I read somewhere that some oils are better than others.. Veg oil isnt all the same.. what do you mean when you say Veg oil?
Maize oil supposed to be the best with low ash and high combustion performance..

According to Joshua Tickell in his book about biodiesel he recomends a mix of 60% oil and 40% parafin. The important thing is the viscosity if its correct you should be ok if its wrong you could do some damage over the long term. most people who use neat oil pre-heat it to arround 70 degrees, start on diesel then when the oil is hot enough (using a heat exhcanger in the engine coolant flow) switch to oil. at the end of the journey they then switch back to diesel to clean out the pipes and injectors. If the oil is to thick then starting could be a problem and the pump could be damaged.
I am no expert but have been investigating it for some time and have a copy of a book all about it. - This thread is getting very interesting.
Tony.

sorry to put a downer on this thread but theres two sides to every story,vegetable oil(or biodiesel as the goverment likes to call it)is not the enviromentally freindly product that most people think it is.
in september a report was published which stated the following facts.
between1985 and 2000 the development of palm oil (the oil used for biodiesel)was responsible for an estimated 87 precent of deforestation in malaysia,in sumatra and borneo 4 million hectares of rain forest has been converted to palm oil farms,and a further 6millon hectares are scheduled for clearance im malaysia and 16.5 million in indonesia.thousand of indigenous people have been evicted from there homes and have been tortured when they have tried to resist.all this because of goverments refusal to find true alternatives to the looming energy crisis,the british goverment has announced that it is to spend 3.6 billion on widening the m1,thats more than it is spending on its entire climate change program,
sorry about the rant but it makes you think,doesn`t it

disclaimer.none off this was actually written by me cos its pure plagarism