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View Poll Results: What type(s) of fuel do you burn in your Diesel?
Waste Vegetable Oil with conversion kit 12 10.71%
Waste Vegetable Oil in tank 11 9.82%
Home made Bio-diesel 13 11.61%
3rd Party Bio-diesel 32 28.57%
Petro-diesel 74 66.07%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 112. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 10-22-2007, 06:28 PM
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B100 and WVO from the time I bought the car 2 years ago with minimal problems. First I changed all the old hoses to vitron as recommend because biodiesel has solvent properties and will eat through old rubber hoses. Also, biodiesel will clean out dino-diesel stuff in your tank so I changed the fuel filter after about a month to avoid the filter clogging issue. If I have to I'll mix in dino-diesel when no biodiesel is available or when the outside temperature drops. I have also used kerosene blended with biodiesel when it gets real cold.

I bought my 300D specifically to convert to WVO. I have driven cross country and back on a two tank WVO system twice and have had no problems with this set up. I have clocked somewhere around 20-25,000 miles on WVO alone and have been happy with the results. Also, the engine runs a lot smoother and it smells good.

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Old 10-22-2007, 08:57 PM
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I think I mentioned in an old post that I once poured a half bottle of Jack Daniels into one of my SDs and it did not skip a beat......
You mean it didn't hiccup at idle? Did it engage in public oil leaking or weave all over the road?
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At the moment, the votes add up to 125%.

Dang Democrats must be stuffing the ballot box again.
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Old 10-22-2007, 10:27 PM
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B100.
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Old 10-22-2007, 10:43 PM
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Whatever the truck stop down the street from my office gets. Don't even remember the brand. Shell or Citco maybe?

Its cheap and convenient.
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Old 10-23-2007, 12:08 AM
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I mostly use waste Jet A1 from work, when I have tgo buy diesel, it's whatever is handy.
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Old 10-23-2007, 12:37 AM
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It's probably that you can click more than one box. I clicked both biodiesel and petro because I usually run B100, but as it cools down, I am increasing the petro into the mix.

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At the moment, the votes add up to 125%.

Dang Democrats must be stuffing the ballot box again.
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Old 10-23-2007, 10:12 AM
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I have been running 100% WVO in the summer and 80% WVO with 20% supreme gas in the winter. Have been doing this for years with no problems. Everything is stock as well. No Mods.
where do you live? how cold does it get in the winter? how hot in the summer? at what point do you switch?
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Old 10-23-2007, 11:16 AM
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WVO all the way! 15,000+ TROUBLE FREE miles on WVO. The power is the same, the car smells good too! I prefer FREE and CLEAN over $3.00 per Gallon and TOXIC.
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Old 10-23-2007, 11:17 AM
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Home made bio. B100 about 9 months and up to 30% petro mix in winter. Great results so far. Runs quiet and smells good. Pollutes much less than petro. Costs about $0.70 per gal. Supports farmers rather than warlords.
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32,000 miles since purchase.

First 8,000 on homebrew BD. Next 24,000 on WVO/RUG blend. No mods to the car.

I've reduced the demand on Petrodiesel by 1280 gallons to help keep the price low for you petro users!
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Old 10-23-2007, 01:30 PM
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Whatever is available, petro diesel, biodiesel, kerosene, filtered WVO, filtered used hydraulic oil, atf, etc., but no more than 50% blends, depending on the temperature.

Sorry for being disgusting...
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Old 10-25-2007, 08:36 AM
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Locally made ASTM soy based B100.

Is there any other fuel?
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Where do you find cheap enough SVO to make it economically feasable???

If it's had fries in it it's WVO. SVO is outa'da'jug at 1.35 litre for Canola oil currently.
Co-ops (peanut oil, cotton oil) non food grade bulk is cheap. Mississippi = peanuts, cotton

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