1. What Brand engine oil are you using?
2. Are you filtering it before adding it to your tank?
3. Is there an increased amount of smoke coming from you car?
4. What about putting all that soot back into your engine, don't you think it causes damage?

Two gallons of fuel saved verses potential damage doesn't add up in my book.

I you think 0,749€/L diesel expensive gasoline is 1.02€/L

rdanz,

To answer your questions:

1. Brand of oil: Mobul 1, Castrol Syntec, Rotella synthetic and multiple brands of Dino oil.

2. Yes I filter the used oil before I add to Diesel fuel.

3. No noticeable difference in smoke

4. Soot damage, No problem. Only the smallest soot particles will get thru the filters and that will just burn (its just carbon) with the Diesel fuel.

P E H

Of course if you do it in California, the Air National Guard will mobilize an Apache strike on your ass for poluting our precious environment. Your Mileage, as they say, May Vary.


Ash

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1982 240D - (272,000)
1998 Honda VTR1000F(RT) Superhawk Freeway (58,000) "Madrid"
1996 Toyota T100 4x4 (84,000) "Mary Kay"

First fill in my newly acquired '84 SD and I had to go to 6 stations before I found one that had diesel. Right next to the community college so I got ripped off at $1.65. My next fill was 300.5 miles later @ 23.35mpg all city driving.....and I paid $1.57....getting better.....then last night saw the best price I have seen was $1.55 at a Diamond Shamrock.

Going to give my fuel economy it's first highway test this week....have a six hour drive (one way) to go to the outlaws....

Can't wait to see what happens on the highway!

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1998 W202 C230 - The money pit of late.
1984 W126 300SD (356,800 miles) Gone to the wrenchapart
1984 W123 300D Gone to the wrenchapart
1972 W108 280SE 3.5 (sold but not forgotten)
1986 Buick Grand National 3.8l Turbo (86k miles)
1966 Glassic Model 'A' Replica http://www.glassicannex.org

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Here in Santa Cruz, California, I have seen diesel as high as $2.35. Most stations have diesel for the same price as regular gasoline.

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1982 MB 300DT - Running Great @ 104K!

1972 MB 220D - RIP @ ~200K (Dropped prechamber)
1992 MB 190E 2.6 - SOLD @ 145K

I wish I could get ripped off at $1.65 right now. Diesel now in the Portland metro area is around $2.00 and up.

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84 300D Turbodiesel 190K with 4 speed manual sold in 03/2012

Diesel is running me $1.67 here in Orlando near UCF. It has been $1.67 since August, while gas prices have gone from around $1.50 in August to $1.73 now. Glad to be driving a diesel here.

Paid $1.46 last week here in SC, went to Atlanta and it was about $1.53 this weekend... Reg gas here is $1.67
...Not quite time to use the Kero/used ATF/gasoline cocktail some yahoo told me about....
I looked into the "home brew" Bio diesel route since I have free used cooking oil available to me but the cost of Lye and Methanol plus the time and effort don't justify the costs.......

Benzcrusher,

Why not use 50/50 Diesel and WVO. It should be warm enough in SC for that.

That would cut your cost in half. All you need is filters.

P E H

Ditto.

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1984 300D Turbo - 4-speed manual conversion, mid-level resto

1983 300D - parts car

1979 300TD Auto - Parts car.

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"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there". Lewis Carrol

San Francisco $2.35 +++ per gallon.
Last week I cringed at $2.17 per gallon. It is on an upswing.
Diesel is a high mark up item for stations.

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1979 300D 220 K miles
1995 C280 109 K miles
1992 Cadillac Eldorado Touring Coupe 57K miles SOLD
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1979 240D 140Kmiles (bought for parents) *SOLD.
SAN FRANCISCO/(*San Diego)
1989 300SE 148 K miles *SOLD

2.49 a gallon in southern orange county.

Fuzzball, I remember my first fill-up. In some small Texas town in the middle of the night, the first of many on my way back to California...

Welcome to the board!

P.E.H.,

Was it me you were reffering to with the name "Benzcrusher" ... ?

I know, I know ... I crushed a benz. My beautiful ol' 115 is now sitting in a cube somewhere. But ya know, it kinda serves it right for taking so much of my hard earned money and time!

And in reply to your recomendation on WVO ... I am currently installing a Greasel 18 gallon second tank system. I will post a writeup on my install and a brief review on the whole system shortly.

(Diesel was 2.00 today! Thats cheap!)

Cassidy

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1982 MB 300DT - Running Great @ 104K!

1972 MB 220D - RIP @ ~200K (Dropped prechamber)
1992 MB 190E 2.6 - SOLD @ 145K