Running 1999 Transit on veggie oil

[darkbluevanman]

Grab some veg oil and put it through one of these...



22p a litre

I prefer £1.22 a litre and not have to be towed home on every journey

[matthew2riches]

Grab some veg oil and put it through one of these...



22p a litre

I prefer £1.22 a litre and not have to be towed home on every journey

Why would you need to be towed home?

[darkbluevanman]

Grab some veg oil and put it through one of these...



22p a litre

I prefer £1.22 a litre and not have to be towed home on every journey

Why would you need to be towed home?

[big mk5]

veg oil does work but it needs to be done right.....an old merc will easily take wvo because the fuel lines are the old type rubber same as all the seals but newer diesels wont .......for a newer van or car you need to twin tank , modify fuel system or/and make proper bio (like the picture shows) in a home built processor.....any diesel will run on wvo but it needs to be done proper...my friend uses his homemade biodiesel and has done for 15 years without fault (merc van)...yet ive buggered 3 cars up ....in my opinion either twin tank or modify and process bio properly.....but good luck

[darkbluevanman]

This sounds great... it's like dicking about with your own veg, feed 'em, water 'em weeks, if not month for a handful of odd shaped scraggy crap (of course it'll be the best you've ever tasted ) or...... you can buy it from a supermarket and if it poisons you, you can sue 'em... only yourself to blame when yer pumps fecked

[matthew2riches]

veg oil does work but it needs to be done right.....an old merc will easily take wvo because the fuel lines are the old type rubber same as all the seals but newer diesels wont .......for a newer van or car you need to twin tank , modify fuel system or/and make proper bio (like the picture shows) in a home built processor.....any diesel will run on wvo but it needs to be done proper...my friend uses his homemade biodiesel and has done for 15 years without fault (merc van)...yet ive buggered 3 cars up ....in my opinion either twin tank or modify and process bio properly.....but good luck

That is the one good thing about Sprinter vans

[WarthogARJ]

from my experience using veg oil tends to destroy inj pumps in a relativly short time.

That’s because the person didn’t research the conversion properly: if at all.
There are many many 1,000’s of people running on various veggie fuels with every kind of pump you can imagine.

But you need to use the appropriate veggie system for your own situation. If you don’t want to research it there are people who will tell you what will work for you. Not for free, but not expensive.

But if you are reasonably technically competent you can do it yourself. It’s the ones who don’t think that get into problems.

[Hondekop]

5] Being a DI engine it will start to coke up and you will start to get ring gumming from the build up of unburnt oil when the engine is cold. This can be helped with water injection just before each oil change or you could twin tank it so you start and finish on diesel but run on veg when the engine is hot.

What do you mean by water injection, Keef? A water injection like the one used in turbo engines, which are either run on water or water/methanol?

Ciao, Kai