Bio Diesel (ADVICE/TIPS)

joshremlin · Jun 9, 2014

Got a 300tdi and was thinking about buying bio diesel due to getting it at £1 a L it will save me a bit of money but that's not a great issue but a bonus!!

whats your experience or advice on this as i have herd good and bad about this fuel and i have also herd landys run well on it.

Thanks guys

the_wolf · Jun 10, 2014

Search, it's been covered thousands of times

joshremlin · Jun 10, 2014

how do it do that im new to the forum and a landy... i did introduce my self!

Cheers
Josh

hifly · Jun 10, 2014

if you are buying it i would learn how to test it quality,

check out this site for how to test it

Biopowered

joshremlin · Jun 11, 2014

Think im just going to use neat waste veg oil introduce it slowly to the system

biolandy · Jun 11, 2014

Make sure it is liquid,dry and filtered to at least 10 microns,5 microns is even better.

joshremlin · Jun 11, 2014

Well i was thinking of mixing it 50/50 to start with and in winter 50 diesel 45 veg oil and 5 petrol to thin it out abit but for that id have to do maths, although i was going to look at the dual tank and for the diesel see where i could fit a small 10L tank.

for filtering it its getting filtered at 5 microns defiantly with the filters in car being 10 microns but if i cant do the dual tank system ill put a heater in the tank to keep it liquid with a second battery in the boot wire up to the alternator i couldn't imagine it dieing

cheers
Josh

DiscoMatt77 · Jun 11, 2014

Hello buddy, I run a 200tdi on waste veg but with a 2 tank set up. I filter mine down to 1 micron and run it through a water removal filter too. It runs really well on the oil but I wouldn't advise a single tank set up you might do some serious damage with the cold starts.

hifly · Jun 11, 2014

joshremlin said:
Well i was thinking of mixing it 50/50 to start with and in winter 50 diesel 45 veg oil and 5 petrol to thin it out abit but for that id have to do maths, although i was going to look at the dual tank and for the diesel see where i could fit a small 10L tank.

for filtering it its getting filtered at 5 microns defiantly with the filters in car being 10 microns but if i cant do the dual tank system ill put a heater in the tank to keep it liquid with a second battery in the boot wire up to the alternator i couldn't imagine it dieing

cheers
Josh

where are you going to get this waste oil from? how will you separate the liquid (if there is any) from the more sloppy/solid stuff.

you need to do a lot more research.

how are you going to keep the fuel lines warm?

everything you are trying to do has been done before, learn from others mistakes, go to the link i posted above, there is also a forum there, they know what they are doing, ask their advise and follow it.

joshremlin · Jun 11, 2014

For a starf ill use clean but waste oil I can get from my uncles restaurant

remedave · Jun 12, 2014

Here i could bore you to tears with this stuff have a look at my other thread

http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f8/twin-tank-wvo-set-up-252125.html

another forum · Jun 12, 2014

I helped somebody with a frontera that was running on bio and he was having problems.once the chips and batter was out the fuel lines it sort of run until the injection pump died.
I'm glad he moved away.....

markSX · Jun 12, 2014

As Hifly said, get yourself on biopowered and have a good read,
we are both active members on there so know a thing or two about bio/veg.

hifly · Jun 12, 2014

another forum said:
I helped somebody with a frontera that was running on bio and he was having problems.once the chips and batter was out the fuel lines it sort of run until the injection pump died.
I'm glad he moved away.....

I take it you mean WVO ? bio won't have any bits in it due to the processing

another forum · Jun 13, 2014

I mean he went round all the chippys for the used oil...

hifly · Jun 13, 2014

another forum said:
I mean he went round all the chippys for the used oil...

that's not bio then its wvo (waste vegetable oil)/uco (used cooking oil),

and if he did not filter it properly then it will cause problems. Too many people think you can pour any old **** in the tank but its not like that, you don't get anything for nothing you have to put some work in to it and done properly you won't get any problems, its not the fuels fault its the idiot pouring it in.

remedave · Jun 15, 2014

hifly said:
that's not bio then its wvo (waste vegetable oil)/uco (used cooking oil),

and if he did not filter it properly then it will cause problems. Too many people think you can pour any old **** in the tank but its not like that, you don't get anything for nothing you have to put some work in to it and done properly you won't get any problems, its not the fuels fault its the idiot pouring it in.

Love it !!

another forum · Jun 16, 2014

hifly said:
that's not bio then its wvo (waste vegetable oil)/uco (used cooking oil),

and if he did not filter it properly then it will cause problems. Too many people think you can pour any old **** in the tank but its not like that, you don't get anything for nothing you have to put some work in to it and done properly you won't get any problems, its not the fuels fault its the idiot pouring it in.

I changed the injection pump for him a nd took the old one at his request to droitwich diesels to see if anything could be done
Explaining the situation,the chap said " well that's ####ed then" and then chucked it in the scrap.
As I say,I'm glad he moved away...

hifly · Jun 16, 2014

another forum said:
I changed the injection pump for him a nd took the old one at his request to droitwich diesels to see if anything could be done
Explaining the situation,the chap said " well that's ####ed then" and then chucked it in the scrap.
As I say,I'm glad he moved away...

Must remember to use them next time i need a detailed analysis done on an injection system.

It was probably just the front seal gone, £5 and 10 mins work,

Thor1950 · Jun 16, 2014

hifly said:
that's not bio then its wvo (waste vegetable oil)/uco (used cooking oil),

and if he did not filter it properly then it will cause problems. Too many people think you can pour any old **** in the tank but its not like that, you don't get anything for nothing you have to put some work in to it and done properly you won't get any problems, its not the fuels fault its the idiot pouring it in.

Filter it and remove the moisture from it. Pieces of chips and fish batter raise hell with the pump/injectors:jaw:

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