Randy,

I was using WVO for a while until I realized that between my son's 115/300d (the one you saw in Austin) and my Chevy Diesel that I just wasn't driving enough miles to warrent the mess.

I used plastic 55gal drums. For the raw oil I cut a hole in one drum, built a 7" ring and flange to accept a 25 mic. bag filter and installed a hand operated (later converted to be powered by a 1/2" drill motor) durm pump with a 10 mic. spin on filter. My son got fry oil from Whataburger in convienent 5 gal. plastic containers that I poured in to the drum through the bag filter. When needed I decanted into 5 gal. drums through the hand pump and the 10 mic. filter. The system worked well but in the end wasn't worth the effort with just 2 cars. If I begin running the house on my 20kw gen set I will go back to WVO but just for our few miles it wasn't worth the effort.

I found that it became very difficult to operate the hand pump, hence the drill motor adaption. I thought that the 10 mic. filters were clogging up quickly but as it turns out there is a small screen located under the pump where the suction pipe goes into the drum. It was clogging quicker than I had thought considering that I was using a 25 mic, bag filter. If you split the pump at this flange, and clean the screen it operates good as new.

I also found that the bag filter loads up with fat rather quickly but that it can be cleaned and resued easily. Pull the bag out, turn it inside out (thats the messy part) scrape off the fat, wash the bag in gasoline or some such solvent, then in soap (which I guess you really don't have to do) and you are back in business.

Good luck. Kip