[SEL] OT PA trip & fuel costs

[bill at antique-engines.com]

I thought I heard a local fellow here ran his McDonalds grease through
some sort of a still or something?



 At 10:55 PM 6/5/2007, you wrote:
>> > I run my VW Jetta diesel on used motor oil (or used cooking oil) and
>> > get 43 MPG.
>>
>>I'm curious about this. What do you do to turn the used oil into
>>usable fuel.  Cost of raw materials?  Man hours?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Rob
>
> Rob,
> This is still an experimental project.  I've successfully run it on
> pure motor oil in a temporary boat tank setup in the car.  I have a
> couple 55 gallon drums that I am going to setup as a filter
> station.  I will have a Frantz bypass oil filter unit setup between
> the 2 drums (remember the old oil filters that used a roll of
> TP?  Same thing).  I get used oil 50 gallons at a time from the shop
> at work.  Dump the dirty oil in one drum and plug in the pump.  After
> about 10-15 hours all the oil will have been filtered down below 1
> micron and transferred over to the other drum.  The second drum will
> have a hand crank bung pump to transfer it to whatever tank setup I
> put in the car.  I will probably use a 10-15 gallon auxiliary tank
> mounted in the trunk and plumbed into the system with a tank transfer
> switch from a dual tank pickup truck.
>
> Cold starting will be done on regular diesel and switched over to oil
> once warmed up for a few minutes to prevent coking in the
> cylinders.  In cold weather I'll probably have to cut it with 30-40%
> diesel or kerosene.  That 15w40 diesel oil gets pretty thick.
>
> The above setup will work with pure veggie oil too, but you really
> wouldn't have to filter it as much as I filter my motor oil.  the
> veggie oil hasn't been through the crankcase of a Detroit Diesel for
> 15,000 miles...
>
> -Tony
>
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