I am thinking of running Biodiesel in my truck. Is there anybody out there doing biodiesel; I hear you can run B100 with no mods but am a little skeptical anyone??
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Yup , done it I have an 1986 Mercedes 300SDL and run a B20 mix in it most of the time. Last summer I was in Vermont and found a place that had B100 and filled my tank it ran great . The only three problems I have found are 1. a B100 is no good at low temps. 2. it will disloge ALL the gunk that is in your tank, keep a spare pre filter around and 4. this is not a real problem but if you get any of the B100 on you it smells like cooking oil and you will keep trying to figure it out what that smell is.
Willie says go for it and..............
don't forget to inhale.
"If you have enough energy you can solve a lot of other problems." - Charlie Munger, Berkshire Hathaway.
We have an abundant supply of domestic natural gas. Let's get busy solving problems.
Willie says go for it
Not no more. They could never get enough used cooking oil to keep Carl's open, let alone the rest of the outlets.
It was as good scheme, scale clobbered them, what with truck drivers needing hundreds of gallons at a time.Occupational hazard of my occupation not being around (sorry Bubba)
Simple fix to that, switch to CNG.
"If you have enough energy you can solve a lot of other problems." - Charlie Munger, Berkshire Hathaway.
We have an abundant supply of domestic natural gas. Let's get busy solving problems.
Really, I am glad to see some interest in biodiesel.
Please let us know how it works out for you.
"If you have enough energy you can solve a lot of other problems." - Charlie Munger, Berkshire Hathaway.
We have an abundant supply of domestic natural gas. Let's get busy solving problems.
Some guys I know here are running B100. One has a VW TDI and a diesel cabin cruiser, the other has an old Isuzu diesel compact pickup, another has a newer Dodge 2500 diesel pickup. The guy with the Dodge added a Frybrid tank in the bed and some other minor hardware, the other guys are pretty much stock and running it in the factory tank. We don't get real cold here so it doesn't congeal on 'em. There is at least one large scale biodiesel refinery here in W. WA, so the supply is probably pretty easy.
Experience with the commercially-made stuff here is producing reasonably well-documented claims that it doesn't congeal. The cold weather problems experienced are due to clogged fuel filters from the gunk worked loose.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. -John Kenneth Galbraith
I found that my 1979 MB 300d runs way better on bio but gets considerably worse MPG.
If your truck is new enough to have a warranty, then think about it some more. Check the allowed biodiesel percentages.