Running a big rig on veggie oil
I have been researching veggie oil as fuel in diesels for years. Seems to have a few downsides and upsides but vegetable oil for fuel is actually what good ol' Rudolph Diesel had in mind for fuel when...
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NorthOrSouth wrote:I just sent you a PM.Gjac wrote:
A friend of mine has a 98 Dutch Star DP with the 8.3 mechanical Cummins eng. He has been using veggie oil in one form or another for 6 years. He has a heated tank for the vegetable oil because it is thicker and a centrifuge to filter the oil as he is traveling down the road along with water separators and other filters. What he has evolved to is collecting the oil from Chinese restaurants and others because the oil is higher quality than Burger King or McDonald's, while he works camps in Fla all winter. He stores it and filters it all winter in 50 gal drums. He starts the engine on regular diesel fuel until it reaches operating temperatures then switches over to the heated vegetable oil. While traveling he buys the filtered oil from other guys doing the same thing along the way He went to Az last year for a total bill of $50-$100 in fuel.
Awesome! Exactly what I was looking for! Would love this same setup. If you don't think he'd mind I'd love to be able to email him. Could you PM me?
