I remember hearing about this years ago & its seems to be on the rise in the media of late.Can you put vegetable oil straight into a diesel car and get no problems with it?ive got a renault 19 diesel.has anyone else done this?
Thanks in advance.
2006-10-19 07:09:12 · 12 answers · asked by aberdeen302004 3 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Other - Cars & Transportation
It definately works. The proper ratio for veggie oil to parrafin/kerosine is 95% to obviously 5%. This thins out the veggie to about the right viscosity to run through the injection pump and good spray pattern at the injectors. Although you can just pour in neat veggie and it will still run fine, but, it may take longer to start from cold and they do tend to be noisier until warmed up. Also there aren't any anti knock additives. To run your vehicle legally on veggie I think you're supposed to register with HM Customs and Excise which will cost I think £20.00 odd. You then get a licence to use veggie but they expect you to note down how much you use and then send you a tax bill...!!!! When you run your car on veggie smell the exhaust...it smells like the local chip shop...!!! and all you want to do is eat chips...!!!
2006-10-19 07:28:23 · answer #1 · answered by transitmill 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have several customers who do it, using used fry grease.
Filter it well before using.
The best way is to have 2 tanks that are switchable: start and stop the motor on diesel, switch to the fry grease after it warms up.
In Florida one of my customers uses it in his twin tank ford van.
He has no heating elements in the tank or anything. This works well in Florida: up north you'd need a special tank with a heater. This can be done with a loop of copper tube in the tank hooked in line with the heater on the car.
He is picky about his oils: oil that has vegetables fried in it isn't good because it can contain emulsified water.
He also makes sure the oil is liquid at room temperature.
He has a neat setup: he pours the oil through a pair of bluejeans with the legs knotted together.
From there he fills up an old well tank with a broken bladder.
Those tanks have an air fitting on top: he pressurizes the tank with air.
Coming off the tank he has a large swimming pool filter, then a regular water hose faucet.
He just puts the hose in the3 tank and turns on the faucet. The compressed air "blows" the oil through the filter and hose into the van's tank .
See also:
http://greasecar.com
http://greasle.com
2006-10-19 07:38:08 · answer #2 · answered by econofix 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes without question. Pure clean vegeatble oil is filtered to at leasts as high a standard as diesel fuel and you have a fuel filter conveniently fitted right there in the engine bay ;-)
Mr Diesel who invented the engine, first displayed it running on peanut oil and designed it to run on low grade fuel (hence the high compression ratio).
In cooler climes, the oil will partially solidify in the tank over night if pure so during the summer run about 75 - 100% vegetable oil and in winter no more than 50%.
Biomass is increasingly being added to fuelpump diesel in Europe and will be in the UK soon.
Some engines (Pajero, fords) run MUCH better on a hefty does of veggie.
On no account ever use olive oil or unfiltered, used oil as they will gum up the injectors. FILTERED used oil is fine though; one guy even just drove across Europe on recover chip oil.
2006-10-19 07:29:27 · answer #3 · answered by wifi_wanderer 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes it does work, not well on a cold day though as the diesel pump has to work harder to push it through, better to mix it with diesel.
It will work with a renault 19, I know people running their cars on vegetable oil from asda, your exhaust does smell though and if you are not paying any duty be careful. And yes it does work directly from the bottle!!!
Alternatively have a conversion done
2006-10-19 08:32:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. It has to filterd down to at least 10 microns. Then poured into a seperate tank with a heating element. once it is heated to a minimum of 160 degrees you flip a switch, then your diesel is switched off and then it will run on the vegetable oil. Other than that it has to be mixed, hence bio-diesel.
2006-10-19 07:15:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the event it's a fruit they have seeds, otherwise it's a vegetable. And vegetables are usually grown in the ground while fruits are grown in trees.
2017-02-19 20:17:52 · answer #6 · answered by lane 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it does work! you'll get some funny looks in Tesco though. I know of someone who regularly runs their mitsubishi shogun on it. Did you not see top gear? they took oil from a chippie and filtered it to get rid of bits and ran a volvo on the stuff all they had to do to make this legal was add a spoonfull of white spirit and pay a tiny amount of duty on it(Supermarkets started rationing it after that)
2006-10-19 07:32:34 · answer #7 · answered by kiddy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeh works,old fish shop oils good,but the smell makes you hungry all the time.
2006-10-19 08:37:02 · answer #8 · answered by Cool Dude 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not directly out of a bottle from the local super market.
2006-10-19 07:43:03 · answer #9 · answered by Trump 2020 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes you can
http://www.vegetableoildiesel.co.uk/index.html
2006-10-19 07:24:34 · answer #10 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋