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Old 05-15-2006, 06:18 PM
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So it sounds like all you WVO folks need to go and drive for a while. I am serious, I've not heard of anyone putting more than 10k miles on unheated VO. Is it because you start with old junkers that can't go any further anyway, or is unheated VO actually accumulating in the ring lands and there is no longer enough compression to start anymore?

And diesel purge is not going to clean this crap out. Your best bet is to not put cold oil into your combustion chambers. This means blending VO with a thinner (thinner than diesel) like kero, jet A or gasoline, or heating it and not piping it in until the VO and the engine is hot.

Until the engine is hot, your oil will not completely burn up and some unburned fuel will get to the cylinder walls. It happens with diesel, it will happen with VO.
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