New or rerun episode?

(being wed.) it's new



...and I missed it.

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-1983 VW Rabbit LS Diesel (5speed, VNT/Giles build)

Nooooooooo. I'd have loved to see that! They didn't mistreat/hurt the SDL did they? They have a reputation for doing that....if they wound a mercedes I'll have to lower my opinion of them.....

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'15 GLK250 Bluetec 118k - mine - (OC-123,800)
'17 Metris(VITO!) - 37k - wifes (OC-41k)
'09 Sprinter 3500 Winnebago View - 62k (OC - 67k)
'13 ML350 Bluetec - 95k - dad's (OC-98k)
'01 SL500 - 103k(km) - dad's (OC-110,000km)
'16 E400 4matic Sedan - 148k - Brothers (OC-155k)

Mountain time, comes on in 40min here. *VCR is set* on my TVguide 9:00-10:00 is a rerun, 10:00-11:00 is the new.

They ran straigh veg through a mini tank that looks like they bolted it on the roof. I like the show but lost a little respect for them because they concluded that "anyone can dump the stuff in their tank and go with no modifications". There is a right way and a wrong way to go about running veg and not all of us have the luxury of living in sunny CA. They should have done more research before just dropping the stuff in the tank.

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1984 300D 225K
1985 300D Donor body
1985 300D Turbo 165K. Totaled. Donor Engine. It runs!!!
1980 300SD 311K My New Baby.
1979 BMW 633csi 62K+++? Dead odo

Correction, it was an SD.

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1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

i just drop it in my tank and go... drove a 120 miles today...

no big deal...at all.... so i guess they did the show for us rebels...

They did filter the WVO.

They taped it to the Benz, not bolted it. I dont know how you guys could lose respect for someone legitimizing the cause on national TV. They probably opened a LOT of peoples' eyes on this.

33.3 MPG on straight diesel, 30 MPG on WVO. Untreated (just filtered) WVO.

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Give it a few hundred miles and I bet they would need a new IP after the glycerin wears it out.

Yeah its not really mythbusting till they've driven the thing a thousand miles that way or so....and lets see them use it as a daily driver and not an experiment car on a runway. Theeen I'll admire what they did.

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-diesel is not just a fuel, its a way of life-
'15 GLK250 Bluetec 118k - mine - (OC-123,800)
'17 Metris(VITO!) - 37k - wifes (OC-41k)
'09 Sprinter 3500 Winnebago View - 62k (OC - 67k)
'13 ML350 Bluetec - 95k - dad's (OC-98k)
'01 SL500 - 103k(km) - dad's (OC-110,000km)
'16 E400 4matic Sedan - 148k - Brothers (OC-155k)

I will take that bet....

I drove my 83 300sd which is just like the one they used today...

i drove 120 miles.... on straight wvo.... i do 100 miles a day... lets
keep this thread open and bet on when my ip goes out...

so we can prove you nay sayers wrong..

There is no free glycerin in WVO/SVO. The esterification of veggie oil into biodiesel is a reaction that leaves you with the biodiesel and glycerin. It isn't just "separating" them.

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Aaron
'84 300D 267,000 - Running WVO - Rice Bran Oil - Mmmmmm, fishy...
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What is the process to remobve glycerin? What is the waste product?

dthiel,

The WVO is "cooked" with ethanol and lye which separates the glycerine from the WVO. The waste product is the glycerine. U can make a lot of soap with it.

P E H

There is no glycerin(ol) in vegetable oil. Yes, glycerin is a byproduct of the reaction used to produce biodiesel, but there is no glycerin in VO.

I know this info. may sound off the wall to some, but if you think back to high school chemistry class perhaps you will remember that chemical reactions can often yield products which were not in the original reactants.

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83' 240D 204,000 miles SVO conversion - Heated Pickup Stock Tank, 3 Gallon purge fuel tank, HOH, Coolant heated filter, FPHE, 2 Greasecar Valves. 12V pump for Veg. and stock pump for purge fuel. Injector overflow return to veg. tank.

98' VW TDI Jetta SVO Conversion 154,000 miles/57,000 WVO miles