Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 16:29:40 -0500
Reply-To: Bill James <bija_ca@YAHOO.CA>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Bill James <bija_ca@YAHOO.CA>
Subject: Re: french fry/biodiesel
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--- LAWS HOME <backintime@TRITON.NET> wrote:
> Yes, biodiesel does have a way of " eating rubber
> fuel lines. One might
> think that it is because the finished product is
> approx. 15 percent Methanol
> (alcohol) , and if we have learned anything from the
> past we should have
> learned that alcohol eats rubber! Remember the
> "Gasohol" of the
> '70's......same problem. The difference now is that
> we have plastic fuel
> line now that can get us around that problem. The
> manufacturer of such hoses
> is Viton, You can get the balance lines and other
> return and supply lines
> pertaining to the fuel system from them at
> www.viton.com/products/viton/default.html . The
> article you have eluded to
> from the "commune" is probably from "dancing rabbit
> ecovillage" right? I
> hate to tell you this but they haven't even had that
> diesel van around for
> quite some time. I believe that it wasn't so much
> problems with the fuel or
> the lines , but rather a maintanance problem...i.e.
> they didn't maintain it
> like you or I would. They are not mechanics on this
> "commune" they are a
> group of people trying to live off the grid as
> "earth friendly" as possible.
> (From what I learned/ understand after visiting
> their site) While it is true
> that bio-diesel has a "warmer" cloud point than #2
> diesel, there are also
> ways around this. As I don't own a diesel
> Westy/Vanagon YET, I do have 3
> diesel rabbits. ( one of those engines wants to jump
> into my '84 Vanagon
> real bad) I really don't have the time to do an
> engine swap right now, I'm
> working on a bigger bio-mixer. The key to getting
> your "waste oil" is asking
> at the smaller "mom and pop" restaurants. Eventually
> I plan on running my
> route rabbits on nothing but bio-diesel, or maybe
> this spring I will get
> ambitious and set one of them up to run on just
> filtered/preheated waste
> fryer oil. All of the research I have done has been
> leaning toward the
> VW/AUDI diesels (TDI included) as being the
> best/most reliable engines to
> run bio-diesel in. Engines to stay away from are the
> Fords with the 6.9l,
> 7.3l as they have rubber componants in the injector
> which cannot be
> replaced with any alternative at this time. BTW the
> book they sell on some
> of those bio sites is cheaper if you buy it at
> Barnes and Noble! they are
> about $13 cheaper! It is called From the Fryer to
> the fuel Tank by Joshua
> and Kaia Tickell $26 at B&N.
>
The Tickells have a detailed web site. A lot of info
on bio-diesel. I didn't save the URL, but found it
with google.com, I believe.
Bill
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