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30° what? F or C? I noticed that my engine's EGTs vary widely dependent upon RPMs, from 300F to 1100F, so it is hard for me to see any difference between running straight D2, verses various WVO-gasoline blends. I would have to log data points per unit time and compare curves over several runs...

So far I have been pulling working IPs off of wrecks at the junkyard. I plan to rebuild the pumps myself. I will need a source of seals as soon as I identify which seals I will be replacing. I have already looked around for seal kits, and no one seems to offer that in a set of stock seals...

Charcoal lighter fluid should run just fine in any diesel engine, but it is more like kerosene than diesel fuel, so it should be blended with waste oils at about 70%. Here is a link to my YouTube on kerosene http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuJbpIC_fqY

Thanks, gungearz, other aspects of how much gasoline is too much in a normal diesel engine also involves energy content (BTUs), cetane, lubricity, specific gravity, viscosity. energy content (BTUs): Gasoline has on the average 10% energy per unit volume than diesel fuel; whereas, waste oils...

Blending gasoline at 20% with WVO has worked pretty good for the last 6 years for my old 6.2L Detroit Diesel engine; however, going over 20% increased the likelihood of injector pump failure. So, I recently made up sample blends and put o-rings: Buna-N 70, Silicone 70, V75 Viton in them and...

I was running WMO-gasoline blends in an n/a 65.2L Detroit Diesel.

I have run about 5 gallons of braklean, which is TCE, through my 1983 6.2L Detroit Diesel engine with WVO and WMO blends, it does run, but TCE is hard on the Buna N and silicone seals, which are in old diesel engines, so braklean/TCE should be run at low concentrations, such as no more than 5%...

In a heart beat. I would settle machining coolants first to separate the aqueous coolants from the oil-based coolants, then I would blend gasoline with the oil-based coolants at about 20%, then leave it to settle for a week, then filter to 1-micronl then centrifuge the blend, then burn it in my...

Your 7.3 idi is very similar to a 6.2 Detroit Diesel. Don't bother to run WMO on anything without a turbo, or coking will be a major issue. If you want an interesting long read on a 6.2 forum on running WMO on 6.2s, then here is a link: http://www.dieselplace.com/forum/showthread.php?t=434255...

If you spend enough time blending gasoline with waste oils, and give that blend enough time for settling to take place, and give yourself a way to easily remove the sediments, and inspect them, then you will find water, whether it has salt in it or not, will readily settle out within hours to...

Welcome, Carlo, on this side of the pond it is not generally cost effective to buy new vegetable oil to burn as fuel, but then we are not paying $2.34/qt for fuel. If we did I think most of us would drag politicians and oil executives out in front of their house and shoot them, and we would be...

I, like pigpen60, thought filtering any waste oil down to 1-micron was overkill, but then I had chronic coked injectors after only 3 days filtering my WMO blends down to only 5 microns. So, I added the 1-micron bag filter. It helped, I got 1-4 weeks on those blends before my injectors coked...

I depend upon close visual inspection of a sample of the fuel, if it is thin, translucent, amber colored, then I know all I have to do is blend, settle for 1-7 days, then filter. If it is thick, milky, or black, then it will need a month or more of settling to get the thin, translucent, amber...

I use three methods for extracting water from my waste oil. 1) Settling. If you are not going to use all that oil right away, then settling is cheap. 2) I find blending gasoline with my waste oils causes the water to precipitate out within hours to one day of settling. 3) I use two 2-inch...

Alcohols do not normally go into solution with petroleum distillates unless a cosolvent is used. So, if this methanol contaminated motor oil is from blowby, then the methanol contnet should be quite low, and if you settle your waste oil fuel before filtering, then the alcohol, should just settle...

I have not tried it, but I see no reason why salt water would not precipitate out of WVO, from adding gasoline, and I would think that gasoline that is contaminated with sea water would just drop the sea water after a day of settling.

I regularly blend gasoline with WVO, and leave it to settle for at least 24 hours. After 24hours of settling I find all of the water in the WVO has settled out. I have been doing that method for 6 years, and find it works just fine for making waste oil blended diesel fuel for my diesel engine.

Thanks for the welcome. I look forward to learning here. Yes, MWMULES, the heat of the desert definitely helps in processing waste oils into diesel fuel; however, I live in Northern AZ at about 5,000 of elevation, so the winters can be cold here. I can still make my fuel making and burning...

I have been burning waste oil-gasoline blends on my 6.2L Detroit Diesel for over 6 years. Most of the waste oil that I have burned was WVO, and it ran fine on my engine. However, running WMO on my engine always results in coking my injectors. So, I am currently building a WMO distillation...

I have been processing my waste oils on the back of my Chevy g-20 van for 6 years. Here are photos of the rig fueling.