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Originally Posted by mplafleur
You will get both answers in this forum. Ranging from "no problems, go ahead" to "your car WILL die if you do it".
Personally, I've only seen anecdotal evidence regarding the destruction of engines using properly filtered WVO. I've run a few hundred gallons with no mechanical problems attributed to using the WVO. I've had clogged filters and one tank screen, but I can't directly point the clogged screen specifically at WVO.
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Opinion on Filters:
Before I was a memeber of this Forum I was a person who just changed filters with whatever was made for that vehicle without ever really understanding them.
The rateings you see are mostly Nominal Ratings. A Nominal Rating means that whatever the number; lets say 10 microns that the filter will filter out only
50% of the 10 micron
and larger particles during
one pass through the filter media.
How, much larger than 10microns? From what I have read in the 20-30 micron range.
So how is it possible for your Fuel System to survive this?
What I believe is your fuel system survives because the same fuel is passed through the filter 100s of times while you are driving.
With the above and clean fuel to begin with the actual amount of particles that need to be filtered out is small and your fuel ends up pretty clean.
When you overload your filter with something like WVO or badly contaminated D2 you must be haveing a huge amount of large particles passing thorugh the filter.
You have a Clean Fuel (D2) verses a Dirty Fuel WVO with a large volume of large particles passing thorug the Nominal Rated Filter Elements (your Seconday/Spin-on Filter is a 10 nominal Micron filter).
The filtration solution is to ad on a large Primary Filter to replace Plastic Primary one in the order of 10 nominal microns and a larger Seconday Filter of 5 nominal microns or less.
Notice none of the above has anything to do with heating the fuel; which is a separate issue.