Date:         Tue, 16 Mar 2004 13:35:44 -0800
Reply-To:     Mark Tuovinen <mst@AK.NET>
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From:         Mark Tuovinen <mst@AK.NET>
Subject:      Re: " you fixed it with what?!"
Comments: To: John Rodgers <jh_rodgers@BELLSOUTH.NET>
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John,

Check out www.greasecar.com for more on this subject, also I know that someone on this the list, possibly David Marshall is running a diesel on WVO(waste vegetable oil). I want to try it, but am having difficulty finding a cheap project diesel to experiment with up here.

Mark in AK


----- Original Message -----
From: John Rodgers <jh_rodgers@BELLSOUTH.NET>
Date: Monday, March 15, 2004 11:51 pm
Subject: Re: " you fixed it with what?!"

> There was a guy in Alaska that for a few years drove a Rabbit diesel
> using discarded cooking oil. He would collect it, filter it, then add
> 15% kerosene. Never did hear the long term results of running the
> engineon this stuff, but he was around for quite a while.
>
> I'm not sure but what used motor oil, with something like kerosene
> added, then filtered to remove solids wouldn't work just fine. Prol'ly
> be a real smoker though.
>
> Regards,
>
> John Rodgers
> 88 GL Driver
> Joel Walker wrote:
>
> >for you diesel folks, something you might want to check on ...
> >
> >
> >i dimly recall that one of the vw magazines took a diesel rabbit down
> >into mexico. only trouble was, they couldn't find any diesel fuel at
> >the stations when they started running low. so someone, possibly a
> >local who had btdt, suggested using gasoline with a lot of motor oil
> >mixed in.
> >
> >so they filled up the tank with gasoline, adding (i think) one quart
> >of 30w motor oil for every five gallons of gas. and drove it back
> >across the border. they mentioned that they changed the oil very
> >quickly after getting home. :)
> >
> >it's the 1qt-to-5gallons that i'm not sure of ... might have been
> more>oil than that. but i remember thinking that was a pretty neat
> trick to
> >keep moving in a diesel. :)
> >
> >joel
> >
> >
> >
>