Bio diesel

For the miniscule savings that you get with BioDiesel, I couldn't be bothered with all the drama.

Mmmm....Good luck

Sure, you could save maybe $2000 a year on diesel and spend $8000 on repairs to your injection system.

Regards Richard

http://www.biofuelsforum.com/
http://www.melbournebiodiesel.org/
http://biodiesel.infopop.cc/groupee

Try these sites.
Cost about 30 cents a litre.
All the above is to do with home made bio, not the crap you get from the servo.

I have a few aquatences that run bio and laugh all the way....one person makes 150 litres in a 44 drum at a time in his garage, for about 25c/l he said to me he hasnt been near a servo for years, and has not had a problem. the worst part is collecting oil oils...the important part is letting it settle and doing it properly...if any caustic is left in the mix, the alloy pump will not last too long.
Sooo, either do it and do it properly, or keep buying from the major companies and hope it is what you paid for....

A guy at work lived in Katherine for years and only bought about 4 tanks of fuel in that time.

He had a tank on the back of the ute that he filled with filtered cooking oil. The heater was disconnected from the cab and run to a copper tube coil. The tank had a filter installed in the fuel line just before a solenoid spliced into the standard fuel line.

He would start it on diesel and let the engine warm up, then switch over to cooking oil. 2min before shut-down for the night he would switch back to the diesel tank again. In the heat up there he had no problem with gelling of the fuel and had done 200 000km without touching the injectors or pump, all from free oil.

The filter system was all gravity powered so required minimal effort to run.
If you have the room in the vehicle to add a second tank, it saves a lot of messing around.

earwig65,

I've been running my HJ61 Landcruiser direct injection 12HT on varieties of vege oil and bioD, plus a few bits of other stuff, and am confident it is not causing me any problems. It's probably close to two years now.

It is important to have a two tank system as others have described, and during winter I'm finding the 8mm fuel line is too small for 100% vege to be drawn through by the lift pump as well as sucking it through the main filter. For my own reasons I have the main filter on suction not under pressure and will soon be moving to 12mm fuel lines and installing an extra Pollack so I can have the main filter back under pressure again.

Anyway, that's more technical than you wanted to know. Short answer is yes, of course you can run your old fashioned diesel on vege oil. I would not suggest it is used on the high tech diesels and would recommend bioD for those users.

This is not the best site to find good technical info and support, too many nay sayers and it's off topic really - the sites listed above are excellent resources. Google WARFA for the WA Association.

I understand there is a group in Tom Price making BioD from the Pilbara's waste oil. I just picked up 120l of Canola fuel for $30 from a local fish shop. It gives me the same performance as dino diesel.

The biggest downside to vege or backyard BioD is the time and the learning curve. You MUST also be a tinkerer - these are very hands on fuel systems and don't try calling your local mechanic when you have a problem - you'll have to figure it out and fix it yourself.

If you have time to work out your vehicle set up, your home storage and processing systems, a resource of good oil, then once it is all 'perfect' it might take me three hours on an average week to do all I need. Getting to 'perfect' is the interesting journey!

Tim