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| Mark Karlsson (Flying_fishbowl)
Registered Member Username: Flying_fishbowl Post Number: 17 Registered: 2-2006 Posted From: 76.103.148.236 Rating: N/A |
Hello. I found this website about using waste motor oil as a fuel: http://www.myfastfuel.com/blank.html Has anyone had any experience with this in a Detroit diesel? I'm worried about fuel system or engine damage. Thanks! Mark | ||
| FAST FRED (Fast_fred)
Registered Member Username: Fast_fred Post Number: 372 Registered: 10-2006 Posted From: 208.100.193.197 Rating: N/A |
I'm worried about fuel system or engine damage. Don't wonder , just look at the DD results posted on the DD site. You can reduce a 300,000 mile engine to scrap rapidly , but think of the "savings". FF | ||
| Bruce Henderson (Oonrahnjay)
Registered Member Username: Oonrahnjay Post Number: 242 Registered: 8-2004 Posted From: 69.143.48.38  Rating: N/A |
F Fred said: "You can reduce a 300,000 mile engine to scrap rapidly , but think of the "savings". " __. True. Especially since ULSD, "modern" diesel oils have very high levels of metal anti-wear additives. They're *made* to chemically react with acids (formed by combustion) and soot to form complex metalic compounds which are then stored in the oil and kept away from doing damage to the engine. The idea is to get this "witches brew" of chemicals out of your engine by changing the oil. The last place in the world that you want to put that stuff is into a diesel fuel injection pump and injectors. __. Of course, next, somebody is going to pop up with a "you don't know nothing - my uncle's best friend's brother in law ran a 1969 Diamond Reo for 500,000 miles on nothin but used oil" post. Yeah, but -- with "modern" oils -- things are different now. | ||
| Buswarrior (Buswarrior)
Registered Member Username: Buswarrior Post Number: 1312 Registered: 12-2000 Posted From: 76.68.120.117  Rating: N/A |
Funny how efficiency and cost savings only matter when we start running out of ca$h... all the old stories of feast and famine were ignored then, and are ignored now... Human species is certainly an interesting study! happy coaching! buswarrior | ||
| john w. roan (Chessie4905)
Registered Member Username: Chessie4905 Post Number: 1186 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 71.58.110.9  Rating: N/A |
Some of the trucking companies used to burn used oil in the truck engines with the fuel several years ago with filter systems and metered injestion. I haven't heard anymore about this lately, and with the new engines with tight tolerance and extremely high pressure injectors, I don't think they would tolerate it. Save enough money in heating your home with extra insulation, get a couple vehicles that save more fuel, etc. and use the savings to be able to still run the coach occasionally. |