There as a guy in Anchorage Alaska that for a time ran used frying oil in his rabbit diesel. As I recall he added 15% kerosene to his mix. It was back in the early '80's. Don't know how long he kept that up. John Rodgers "88 GL Driver Douglas Demarest wrote: > I read the biodesiel article cited in the recent post and some web pages that > it linked to. They claim that any unmodified desiel motor can burn this > stuff, and that its easy to make from used vegetable oil, which restraunts > throw away tons of. It seems like it just can't be this easy. If it is, why > aren't all of the desiel Vanagon owners on this list running on french fry > waste? > > Doug Demarest > Minneapolis, MN > 86 Vanagon |
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