cooking oil for fuel in your diesel truck

[jdkliesing]

Does anybody on here know anything about this. I saw it on mythbusters, I found a website about it. Does anybody here use it and or heard of this. I want to learn more and possibly start making it my self. All I saw on the site was kits for cars ive got a duramax and I really dont want to rig something up myself and screw up the motor.

[Bodie]

I saw on the news somewhere people going around and collecting all the oil used in frying french fries and using this in whatever type of special car or truck they were driving. Said the fumes coming out of the exhaust smelled like fries.

[cape_fisherman]

You don't need a 'special car or truck'. The used cooking oil is transformed into BIOdiesel. You can Google and find out more.

It is relatively simple to do and most restaurants will probably give you the oil for free. Biodiesel is an extremly clean burning product and actually will clean out your fuel system from what I've been told. If your diesel vehicle isn't new, it might be a good idea to carry a couple extra fuel filters around with you. I've heard that running BD will dislodge crud in the system and stop your filter up.

People think that diesel has to be petroleum based. That certainly isn't the case. As a matter of fact a diesel engine is quite content with many different kinds of oil/fuel.

Want to know a neet trick? Your diesel engine will run quite well on off-the-shelf vegetable oil from the grocery store...or so the reports say...I've not tried it. Straight oil isn't as clean as BD, but for limited periods it is said to work just fine.

Read up on the BD. I've often thought of trying it myself as I have plenty of used cooking oil from my business.

Jay

[Glenn W]

Jdkliesing,
Check out thedieselpalce.com. It is a duramax forum and there is an entire section, with hundreds of threads on biodiesel.
From what I have read, it is a bit of a PIA to cook (some kind of refining is required) and filter the old frier oil, but it you're up to the hassle, you can definatly same some money. Seems the biggest problems to do it right are proper filtration and acidity control.
With those boshe injectors in your duramax, I would make sure your fuel is a clean as possible. Also, the BTU content of pure biodiesel is not as high as fossil fuel, so most people blend it.

[gofshn]

Glenn, did you mean dieselpage.com, that is where i go. also you can get set-up for converting used vo's into biodiesel but remember that the by -product is a good bit of glycerin, you either have to sell it, or dispose of it properly.

[Glenn W]

Glenn, did you mean dieselpage.com, that is where i go. also you can get set-up for converting used vo's into biodiesel but remember that the by -product is a good bit of glycerin, you either have to sell it, or dispose of it properly.

No. This is where I was refering to--- geared to Duramax ionly
http://dieselplace.com/forum/index.php?

But will check out yours. Thanks

[jdkliesing]

Thanks for the info everyone.

[BYRD]

THe show Trucks that comes on Sunday on Spike TV did a show about it lat year. Guy went and got french fry grease and a kit. Showed how to assemble everything on the show and then ran a Diesel Dodge ram truck with it. Said the only bad thing is it smells like french fries everywhere you go.

Cost about $.49 a gallon to make.

[Fishwagon]

Diesel invented the engine with the idea that it may run on Vegetable oils. back then (1890's) petrolium fuel was very expensive. Henry ford even thought the model-t was destined for ethonal, until gasoline became cheaper.

[Graceland]

I've got a buddy that cooks off about 200 gallons a week of it. Says it runs him about 25 cents a gallon. He uses the glycerin to make soap, which his wife sales.