Originally Posted by chuni959 (Post 1753989)

well thats too bad. Maybe ill start small here and buy some cooking oil and make up a 1 gal test batch of B50 and leave it outside and see what happens

Originally Posted by chuni959 (Post 1753960)

yeah im pretty much talked out of the one tank approach... Biodiesel gels up way earlier than diesel doesnt it?

Originally Posted by TheDon (Post 1754131)

It depends on your base stock as well as winter blending..

During the winter I would cut it with Kerosene

Originally Posted by pawoSD (Post 1754128)

Mixing cooking oil with diesel half and half does not make "B50 Biodiesel" it makes 50/50SVO....also bad for the car and will likely clog up your filters.

Originally Posted by chuni959 (Post 1754142)

Hrmm not sure where your reading that. People were persuading me to go biodiesel, so i said i would make (read: titrate, cut with lye etc...) a batch of B50 and set it outside to see what happens in my climate. Now I'm beginning to wonder how much of this is actual advice or just ball busting by the diesel OGs...

Originally Posted by Fredmburgess (Post 722617)

RW, I'm using 5/8" heater hose for the coolant lines to the WVO tank. Nothing fancy. WVO fuel line is just 3/8" OD poly tube inside one of the heater hoses - same deal as original greasel setup and that shown in "from the fryer to the fuel tank". The '84 300D has had this setup, with a 12 gallon tank in the trunk, for about 2 years. I did not install and still a WVO fuel pump/boost pump. The stock lift pump has been sufficient, even though I'm pulling WVO through a benz pre-filter and a (heated) fuel filter ('85 Golf diesel filter with copper tubing wrapped around so hot coolant heats the filter). I did not change the stock lift pump/filter arrangement, so WVO goes through pre filter/VW filter, and then through lift pump and stock filter. No problems to date. I've run on WVO at outside temps to -15F in upstate NY...just have to let everything heat up first and suck that first bit of cold WVO (in fuel line from heated filter through selector valve to lift pump

Originally Posted by pawoSD (Post 1754141)

You're in Florida, winter up here is a LOT different than "winter" down there....

Kerosene will not help. It gets waaay too cold.

Originally Posted by TheDon (Post 1754156)

Generally you can cut it with kero.. worse comes to worse if your climate is too cold you have to run the proper D2 winterized fuel..

OMG.. run D2 in a diesel engine.. why yes.. It was DESIGNED FOR IT!

Originally Posted by Mistel (Post 1754163)

I have a two tank system in Ontario in a truck and it works fine all year long. I started the winter with a piece of chloroplast in front of the radiator to speed warm-up. I found I didn't need it, oil was getting too hot. I plow snow with the truck. Warm-up time is not an issue, for me at least.

This is not the best place to ask for WVO advice as some people are just flat out opposed to it. (not sure why, guess they don't realize where their dollars go).

Ask here

http://biodiesel.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a/frm/f/159605551

or here

http://www.frybrid.com/test.htm

Here is a guy in MN who is in the business. If I lived closer I would have gotten his help.

http://vegoilconversions.netfirms.com/

I love having to fill my truck up every 3 months. I really get a kick out of forgetting which side my gas tank is on when I have to fill-up.

Go for it

Originally Posted by chuni959 (Post 1754204)

hahah **** man, 3 months?? How bigs your tank?