Did you know you can run your diesel vehicle on cooking oil?
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Where do you get that it is illegal? It is not. The guy that owns several local McDonald's restaurants has a Diesel Volkswagen Beetle that he has converted to run off of the used cooking oil that is produced in his restaurants. It was a feature story in the local newspaper about a year ago. It can be done and all you have to do is buy a kit to do it. The cooking oil just has to be strained of all the impurities (crumbs, etc) in the oil before you pour it in. You have to warm the car up on diesel while the kit gets the fry oil ready to burn in the engine because the oil has to be heated to reach the viscosity that it has to be at. But after that, it's ran on only cooking oil. It is not illegal at all.
Run a google search and you can find a kit that is produced to do the same thing.
but is it actually cheaper?
Did you know you can fry your eggs in diesel oil? Taste crap though!!
yes
It doesn't work that well unless you refine the cooking oil.
There is a legal process for this.
But you are correct diesel engines will run on cooking oil
And smell like a chippy doing so!!
Yes, bio diesel has been a fuel alternative for some time now, but isn't necessarily illegal. It depends what exactly you're using/how you obtain it and specifically how you use it.
i know tht but u have to modify a few things in the engine first
is it actually cheaper becasue ill start doing that if it is.
yes, a few minibuses here run on bio-diesel and I think the owner said something about it being like cooking oil!
It's not as efficient. Bio-Diesel is like it, but it's more efficient. Also legal.
And be careful people, if you put this in your car [not diesel engine] you're screwed.
They are starting to market a legal version now too..
Bio Diesel its called! No engine mods needed tho' the mix has to be fairly well prepared. Its a matter of adding chemic to old clean cooking oil and away you go!
It is legal, but customs will want to know, so you can pay the extra tax.
Interestingly enough, Rudolf Diesel had biofuels in mind when he invented the Diesel engine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/rudolf_dies.
you can run your car on pure rapeseed oil. But It requires a few adjustments to the car. You could alternatively run your car on 50/50 diesel and rapeseed oil without a problem
Yes, Straight Vegtable Oil works in most all Deisel cars and trucks. I have heard of people throwing a gallon of mazola in the trunk of their deisel car as a emergency spare. As long as the temperatures of the engine are hot enough that will get you further down the road. However their are a lot of companys that sell conversion kits to run used fryer oil in their cars. They say the kits work but working with used fryer oil is just gross and stinkey.
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can run it on AAA coconut oil too, they did this on top gear a while back.
They will run on any oil that has a flashpoint of around 60 degC - just depends on how long.
works better if you add 10% white spirit to it to stop it clogging injectors up.
Yes - and you can run it on cow poo (Methane) and hemp oil (yes your car can run on cannabis)
All refined and tweaked though with other chemicles but customs will slap your bum if they catch you doing so.
Just go buy red deisel and don't get caught !
yes i did know that.there is a guy i know who gets all the used oil from dairy queen for free.he mixes it with regular diesel fuel and runs his truck on it.it's kind of cool because when he starts his truck in the morning, it smells like french fries.
just think all the money you save on fuel can pay for the fuel system repairs you will eventualy have.
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