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NoSparkNeeded 07-18-2008 10:29 PM

Clean the bowels> Bio purgative
 
All this talk of alternative fuels. When I first brought this car home,it
was gonna have an Elsbett set-up fer sure. I wanted to be able to pour
whatever I could find into it, well, just in case. I found here on this forum
that it ain't that simple:P. So where I'm at now, from what I've read here,
is that if nothing else, running a tank of bio at least once a month is like a
purgative, for lack of a better word. It seems to help once all the, erm
sh&t, is all cleaned out. After that a tank of B100 helps the planet, cleans
out the system, doesn't hurt a thing? Correct? Better than any additive if you time it properly? Am I getting this as it seems? After the initial toilet
flush, you can switch at will between dino/bio? Yeah I know the hose thing. After a time I'll switch, but I'd like to see how the hoses fail. I'm never more than 12 miles from home, I can still walk that, so, I'm not
worried,heh.

Bio300TDTdriver 07-18-2008 10:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NoSparkNeeded (Post 1914014)
All this talk of alternative fuels. When I first brought this car home,it
was gonna have an Elsbett set-up fer sure. I wanted to be able to pour
whatever I could find into it, well, just in case. I found here on this forum
that it ain't that simple:P. So where I'm at now, from what I've read here,
is that if nothing else, running a tank of bio at least once a month is like a
purgative, for lack of a better word. It seems to help once all the, erm
sh&t, is all cleaned out. After that a tank of B100 helps the planet, cleans
out the system, doesn't hurt a thing? Correct? Better than any additive if you time it properly? Am I getting this as it seems? After the initial toilet
flush, you can switch at will between dino/bio? Yeah I know the hose thing. After a time I'll switch, but I'd like to see how the hoses fail. I'm never more than 12 miles from home, I can still walk that, so, I'm not
worried,heh.

As my 3 year old daughter often says to me; "What you said"?:confused:

ForcedInduction 07-18-2008 10:52 PM

You can use any mixture of actual biodiesel without modifications as long as the outside temp is warm enough that it wont gel.

bgkast 07-18-2008 11:32 PM

Yep, I go back and forth all the time between B99 to plain D2.

Zackm 07-19-2008 12:06 AM

In my car that I just got 2 weeks ago I immediately put some B99 in it and made it about 3 miles before it started sputtering. The primary filter looked like it had been at the bottom of a lake. Just in case it's not all cleaned out I keep a screwdriver and a spare filter in the trunk.

TMAllison 07-19-2008 12:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zackm (Post 1914070)
In my car that I just got 2 weeks ago I immediately put some B99 in it and made it about 3 miles before it started sputtering. The primary filter looked like it had been at the bottom of a lake. Just in case it's not all cleaned out I keep a screwdriver and a spare filter in the trunk.

Your tank must have already been so full of bugs that your filter was barely flowing as it was if that happened so soon after filling up; or it wasnt commercially prepared bio that you fed it.


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