From: James Shanks (n1vbn@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Apr 29 2006 - 07:50:42 PDT
You generally get WVO (waste vegetable oil) from
restaurant's near you . You have to talk the
owner/manager into letting you do his pickup as
they have to pay to have it hauled away. You also
have to filter the oil to remove floating debris
like old french fries's, bits of chicken or
whatever type of food the restaurant cooks. Use a
5 micron filter as 99% of all factory Diesel fuel
filters are built to 10 micron specs. Always
filter the wvo twice either by running it through
the filter setup you have twice or assemble two
filters in line with the second filter being the
smallest aka 5 micron. Be advised that 5 micron
filters slow down how fast they filter oil but
the idea is to remove as much crap from the oil
BEFFORE you pump/pour the oil into your fuel tank
on your vehicle. seeing as your a driver you need
a coolant (antifreeze) heated fuel filter
assembly. A Raycor filter can't remember the
model number has a built in handle on top of the
removable cover (uses a filter cartridge) and has
coolant hookups for heating the fuel as well as a
clear plastic water/sediment bowl on the bottom
of the filter unit. This while it ain;t cheap to
buy is an excellant filter assembly to configure
one tank for wvo. As I said earlier there is a
company in Minnesota that runs 4 one ton vans and
one 18 on virgin vegetable oil. Virgin vegetable
oil is new not used oil. They have it delivered
in bulk just like a regular Diesel delivery. That
was just three weeks ago and they were paying
$1.10 per gallon delivered versus at the time
$2.60 per gallon for Diesel.
you would have to check around your area to find
a local company that could deliver in bulk and
remember it is a food product so check with big
food ditributos if you want it in bulk. The other
advantage virgin oil has is virtually no cleaning
of oil..just pull up to the pump and fill up the
wvo tank. Even though you may be using virgin oil
you still have to heat it to lower the viscosity
to Diesel fuel's density.
WHen you install a heater in the tank for
wvo/virgin oil try to get the pickup tube in the
middle of hot water heater inside th tank, this
way the oil is as hot as possible when it leaves
the tank. I also would use a hose inside a hose
on your supply line to prevent cold oil reaching
the heated fuel filter and plugging the line.
Once you set her up it will reduce your fuel
cost's but iff your running commercial you still
have to pay fuel taxes on the wvo/virgin oil.
You would start on Diesel and purge the wvo from
the engine's fuel system and shut down on Diesel
so cold starting is not inhibited.
Go here for more info.
--- MV <MV@dc9.tzo.com> wrote:
> Where do you get used cooking oil? Don't a lot
> of the restaurants have
> contracts setup to have someone pickup that
> oil?
>
> I've got a semi tractor with two big tanks -
> one is more than sufficent
> for what I do with it - so I guess I could try
> that stuff out also - at
> least in the summer time.
>
> Dave
>
> Darrell Ramsell wrote:
> > I've been using used cooking oil in my HMMWV
> for a year now. I just
> > pour it through a filter and dump it into the
> tank. The engine actually
> > runs much nicer with the oil in it. I
> haven't had any problems at all.
> > The only thing I can say that was close to a
> problem was it would spew
> > white smoke right after start-up and idling
> for 5 min on a real cold
> > day. But once you start driving it goes
> away.
> >
> > Darrell
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan
> Gill" <rmgill@mindspring.com>
> > To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List"
> <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> > Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 10:44 AM
> > Subject: Re: [MV] Waste Vegtable Oil as Fuel
> >
> >
> > At 1:07 PM -0400 4/28/06, Bill wrote:
> >
> >> OK....so when a DOT LEO is headed down the
> highway looking for
> >> scofflaws....
> >>
> >> And he comes upon this Mil Truck that smells
> like McDonalds French
> >> Fries...do you think he might be inclined to
> stop the perp and check
> >> his papers and fuel tank?
> >
> >
> > Federal law allows 1,600 gallons of Biodiesel
> > made/used per year. So Why is he going to
> bother?
> >
> > And how does he tell the difference between
> taxed
> > biodiesel made for sale and something you
> made
> > yourself?
>
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James Shanks
1985 M-1009
1998 IMZ 8.103
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