bio-desiel facts

[mschn99]

bio-desiel is great, and if you are towing a lot, cross country trips, etc. the 7.3 with the proper system can run on 100% proccesed waste veggie oil. the properties of heated and proccessed veggie oil are almost identical to that of #2, with one major exception. with not way to tell exactly what the properties are, sulfer content, lubricity, cetane level....etc.....it is NOT reccomended to run over 5% in the sick-0. i know guys are doing it, but i have seen problems, mostly injector failures, because of it. the 7.3 seems not to have any of these issues with the fuel. the biggest thing to remember if your gonna make your own is DO NOT get your waste oil from fast food places. it is very impure and is low quality oil that usually is not pure enough. the best places to get WVO is from asian resturaunts and other sit down type resteraunst that have higher quality food that they fry. just my two cents.......

[99Smokin73Stroker]

Thanks Marc, that's been one of my concerns all along about switching to the bio is what percentage I could run in the 7.3. I'm past tired of the fuel prices. How the fuel went from steady 1.50's and such to 3 bucks a gallon in less than a years time is beyond comprehension. I don't keep up with politics too much, but I know that I am extremely dissappointed with who we have in office. Some stations are still selling diesel for 2.89 a freakin' gallon. Ridiculous.

[mschn99]

in your 7.3, you could probably get away with 10% bio.....but you can run 100% waste veggie oil.........thats the verdict ive seen on a lot of fords testing.....although they dont reccomend that high on the bio

[99Smokin73Stroker]

Okay I see, so there's actually bio-diesel and then waste-veggie oil fuel....I was a little confused. Thanks for clearing things up!

[mschn99]

most guys dont know much about it, technically WVO is biodesiel, but the bio you would buy at the pump is actually a blend of three or four things......its kind of complicated and i dont even know a ton about it....just enough to answer customer questions about using it.

[99Smokin73Stroker]

Sounds good. We have a guy on here (veggiedestroyer I think) who's running straight veggie on his 7.3 excursion. I'm gonna have to hit him up and see what I gotta get....I paid 2.44 tonight at the Road Ranger truck stop. Another guy was filling up his 04 6.0 and commented on my truck when I came back out from paying. He told me it was his second 6.0, first was an 03 that he had put in the shop 20-25 times until ford finally took it back. He told me he hasn't had any problems with the 04 so far. He also said he wished he would have just opted for the 7.3 when he bought his 03. Ha!

[Veggie-Destroyer]

basically its like this
wvo is USED RESTURAUNY OIL i get from not only asian but i try for japeneese es only make tempura its deep fried (shrimp and or vegetables . the key here it stays liquid and looks a carmel color not cream not black .
in cold it will thicken like syurp on cold days but doesn't go solid

making bio d. is using a chemicals methanol and lye to remove the glicerins from the metheylesters this changes the viscosity to somthing similar to water. However the biod. sometimes has leftover methanol which can melt stuff. diesel is 2.69 g .u can make from dirtier oil

so its a choice do you want to be a meth head and play with chemical in yer lab(garage). or A grease monkey and either make a dual tank sys which will let you start on diesel then as coolant warms fuelsys. u can switch to veggie

now im working my single veggie sys where ALL my fuel lines to engiine are 5/8 and the fuel pump was relocateed at front of th fuel tank. im using an aeromotive a1000 pump w/ an-10 in and outs

this summer i will try to get up to portland and take a couple runs at portland int. speedway hopefully meet some of u ppl
i think i be getting low 16 sec runs
yea u might be faster but do you get calls " we have 15 gallon plz come pick up . god bless AMERICA

[99Smokin73Stroker]

Ha ha, yeah i'd rather have a phone call to come get 15 gallons of free fuel.....

[Veggie-Destroyer]

plz take come the oil i left them a barrel it was filled to th brim 55+ gallons
took 30 got to go back later

[99Smokin73Stroker]

okay so how much did the system you got to filter and everything cost?