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Originally Posted by Jack None
Lessons learned: have an electric heater on the WVO filter if driving in the cold. When converting add a second full-sized tank (from the junk yard) for the WVO and keep the stock tank for the diesel. And NEVER, NEVER run out of fuel! If I were ever in a similar situation again I'd stop and top off the diesel every seventy miles just to be ridiculously on the safe side.
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Second full size tank / check
Never run out of fuel / check
Install your tank, fphe, and filter in the trunk, out of the windchill that is under the hood. You will never have that problem again. A filter body under the hood is exposed to windchill of -70 to -100. The heated filter head cannot add heat fast enough to keep up.
I run at -20 on VO with no problem.
1991 350 SDL Conversion to WVO
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Greg
2012 S350 BlueTEC 4Matic
2007 ML 320 CDI
2007 Leisure Travel Serenity
2006 Sprinter 432k
2005 E320 CDI
1998 SLK230 (teal)
1998 SLK230 (silver)
1996 E300D 99k, 30k on WVO
Previous:
1983 240D, on WVO
1982 300D, on WVO
1983 300CD, on WVO
1986 300SDL 237k, 25k on WVO (Deerslayer)
1991 350SDL 249k, 56k on WVO - Retired to a car spa in Phoenix
1983 380 SEC w/603 diesel, 8k on WVO
1996 E300D 351k, 177k on WVO
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