it's safe to the environment, costs very little, but works better for older model vehicles, you should look into it. do your bit, it is illegal, suprise suprise, so,go on break the law and save the planet in your own little way.
2006-08-14 08:20:05 · 22 answers · asked by gasman 2 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Other - Cars & Transportation
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.
2006-08-14 08:35:24 · answer #1 · answered by crazytrain_23_78 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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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2006-08-14 15:29:41 · answer #2 · answered by A W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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!
2006-08-14 15:27:26 · answer #3 · answered by roy d 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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.
2006-08-14 15:24:11 · answer #4 · answered by yodellingdolphinofkirkwall 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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
2006-08-14 15:29:21 · answer #5 · answered by peter gunn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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
2006-08-14 15:23:54 · answer #6 · answered by Shockey Monkey 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interestingly enough, Rudolf Diesel had biofuels in mind when he invented the Diesel engine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Diesel
2006-08-14 15:28:07 · answer #7 · answered by philr999 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, a few minibuses here run on bio-diesel and I think the owner said something about it being like cooking oil!
2006-08-14 15:26:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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...
2006-08-14 16:40:10 · answer #9 · answered by elchavoguapo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They will run on any oil that has a flashpoint of around 60 degC - just depends on how long.
2006-08-14 15:32:43 · answer #10 · answered by rookethorne 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋