So if I were to run a blend a heater would not be necessary? Would it have a negative effect on the diesel? Sorry to be asking all these stupid questions but I'm really learning a lot from this thread.

Thanks
David

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These are good questions, and you are asking them in the right place. Several members here have way more blend experience than I, and my concerns/questions are often not much more than speculation. I am as curious as you, and while I often try to err on the side of caution, it is not for trying to discourage folks from trying out new things.

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I’m running a blend of 10% to 40% of new vegetable oil on regular basis in a 220D (615 912) depending on the outside temperature. I have made at least 5000km whit no problems. I used 1 time a 50% blend but I had difficulties starting. No changes at all in the car.
It’s very difficult (almost impossible) to legalise any major changes in the cars so the blend is my only option.
Next step. WVO blend

I took this link from the FAQ at the biodiesel site.

Link to threads about blends at the biodiesel site

A search over there will reveal many more threads as well.

My suggestion to all individuals running the oil straight through it is a bad idea. Oil has glycerin, which dos not burn; it is a pollutant and is not lubricating the diesel subsystems like sulfur which is part of diesel fuel. Removing glycerin will produce bio-diesel fuel which replaces the diesel totally. In colder weather you must run viscosity tests and mix with diesel to find out the thickening point. The new bio-diesel will burn 84% cleaner than regular diesel.

This is continuation of missinformation and has been thourghly discussed in here. You might want to search for the discussion.

Synopsis is:

"technically VO does not have "glycerin" in it!!!!! Therfore the pollutiants caused by glycerin CAN NOT EXIST.

Glycerine will not form out of WVO without additional ingredients. To get glycerin to form you have to ADD a base and an alcohol. These two ingredients combine with existing components (various different glycerides) in the oil to form what is called gylcerine. In biodiesel production you ADD the two ingrediants and then seperated out the glycerin that forms. The remainder is biodiesel. Now if someone does not seperate out the glycerin very well from the biodiesel and uses it as fuel thennnnn you have pollutents caused by glycerin.

SO! if you do not add the two ingrediants then NO GLYCERIN is in the WVO.

THUS when a person uses WVO as a fuel without the additional ingrediants there is still NO GLYCERIN. With no glycerine you cannot have the existence of pollutants caused by glycerin. The components of WVO mentioned above (glycerides) do not cause the same pollutants as glycerin itself. If I understand correctly, they do not make other pollutants that are particularly caustic either.

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62 UNIMOG Camper w/617 Turbo, 85 300SD daily driver- both powered by blended UCO fuels

hey, most of you guys that are running on some kind of WVO blend seem to be doing it in w123 series cars, i have an '87 300d non-turbo and with the price of fuel at about $5/gallon here in the uk i want to give it a go, is there any reason why it shouldnt work the same in my engine or is it just the same basically?

No there isn't.
Try this , if you are looking for conversion info. These people really know their older MB's
http://www.**************.com/
Look up the info on their new grease kit manual.

go for it;
Austin

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