Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 23:25:06 -0700
Reply-To: monte merrick <montemerrick@SPEAKEASY.NET>
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From: monte merrick <montemerrick@SPEAKEASY.NET>
Subject: Re: European gasoline $$$$$$$$$
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man i was dead set on a diesel vanagon when i first started looking and
i wish i had gotten one - but the cost for broke down diesels is a bit
prohibitive for some one as broke down as me.
the websites for biodiesel and wvo are numerous - greasecar is good one.
here's an interesting site regarding rudolf diesel himself.
http://www.hempcar.org/diesel.shtml
old rudolf ran his engine on peanut oil!!!
and then (ominous music) enter dupont
monte
On Apr 27, 2006, at 11:04 PM, Mark Tuovinen wrote:
John,
You do not have to dilute waste vegetable oil but it does need to be
filtered. It also usually needs to have a heated fuel tank, lines, and
filter as it is ten times more viscous then diesel fuel. Some people
in warm parts of the country report not having to heat their systems
but the rest of us have no choice and must, I would hate to have to
clear out a fuel system with jelled veggie oil in it. For more info on
this try greasecar.com, there are other sites but this is the one I
could remember with out looking them up.
Mark in AK
----- Original Message -----
From: John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
Date: Thursday, April 27, 2006 4:46 pm
Subject: Re: European gasoline $$$$$$$$$
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Dennis, I've heard little about filtering and then re-using once used
> motor oil. Have you heard of this? If used vegetable oil, then why
> notused motor oil? From what I understand vegetable oil like from
> restuarants, etc, has to be diluted with about 15% kerosene to get a
> useable mix. Why not used motor oil. After filtering, adding kerosene,
> it should be good to go.
>
> What say you? Anybody?
>
> Regards,
>
> John Rodgers
> 88 GL Driver
>
> Dennis Haynes wrote:
>> Want to fill the 100 gallon tank in my motor home? How about people
>> filling their home heating oil tanks? Now here is an opportunity for
>> waste or vegetable oil. Oil burners will burn anything that remains
>> fluid and can burn. Put a really good, high capacity filter
> before the
>> pump and pour it in. Stain it to keep out the floating food
> stuff. Keep
>> a spare nozzle just in case. You can actually buy furnaces and
> boilers> expressly designed for used motor oil and other fuels.
>>
>> Dennis
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On
> Behalf> Of Robert Fisher
>> Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 9:36 PM
>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>> Subject: Re: European gasoline $$$$$$$$$
>>
>> --snip--
>> (cant stand the chock of more than 100 us$ for a full tank!)
>> --snip--
>>
>> There's some perspective for ya... if I filled up my Chevy's 34
> gallon> tank
>> today it would cost around $105. If it cost that much to fill up the
>> Vgon
>> I'd have to put sails on it.
>>
>> Cya,
>> Robert
>>
>>
>>
>
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on their trail. Many are the travelers I have spoken to concerning
them, describing their tracks and what calls they answered to. I have
met one or two who had heard the hound, and the tramp of the horse, and
even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud, and they seemed as anxious
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