Diesel RVs: Re: [diesel_mercedes] Re : Veggie Oil DEATH Turbo Diesel Sports Coupe

Boyd,

I agree with your general sentiment to buy USA first.

I was talking solely about single tank SVO conversion. It is my understanding the Greasecar two tank conversion are well liked.

I participated in a build day for Elsbett conversions - one of them single tank. I was impressed with their quality and the completeness of their kits. I was impressed with the performance of the car I rode in. I have never owned one, but I have heard uniformly good reports.

Getting a one tank system to work in any weather is definitely close to being able to walk on water. I prefer the two tank system. But if someone wants a one tank system, since it is so delicate to get all the elements working together, I feel the only way is to buy from the people who know how to do it.

(Reality note - the original Elsbett has shut down. We need to get reports on the new group carrying on their work.)

Bobby

On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Boyd Wright <bgthegreat@verizon.net> wrote:

Sorry Bobby, I don't know where you are from, but I am from the USA. I deal, and trust, our engineers and manufacturers first. I get super service, help and advice from greasecar in Mass! Best of all, they are not union!!! Only, after I have exhausted all options in the USA, will I go to another country for new purchases. Now, you might say, why then a Mercedes? I don't know of an American made engine, that I can afford, that is like like my Mercedes.

If you youtube, you will see a guy that has put our engine in a, I believe it is, Suburban. He is ruining it on used veggei! Bottom line is that Germans build a great engines and great medical tools, but I will deal with USA first.

BTY, I bought a John Deere 650 diesel only to find out that it is not a diesel made in the USA. I guess we are lucky that our present administration doesn't want to paste solar panels to our cars since mine is 30 years old. Seems our government wants us to open our sun roofs and put a wind mills on your beenies!?! That said, exhaust all USA opportunities first before you pimp that foreign stuff.

Boyd

From: Bobby Yates Emory <liberty1@gmail.com>
To: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2012 11:23 PM
Subject: Re: [diesel_mercedes] Re : Veggie Oil DEATH Turbo Diesel Sports Coupe

Nate,

In case there are any newbies reading this thread, they should know:

Nate is very protective of his MBs.

If your objective is to experiment with or save money be using bio-fuels, the most forgiving car to use are the 78 to 84 MBs.

Although Nate was talking about the possibility of transesterfication of lipids into bio diesel, it is also possible to use Straight Vegetable Oils and not have to process anything in your backyard. Bio-diesel is widely used and most users are satisfied. Bio-diesel is also useful as an additive to dino diesel to restore the lubricity lost by the latest Ultra Low Sulfur diesel.

As Jim implied, the usual way that people use SVO is to have two tanks and to crank and shut down the engine on dino diesel. After a few minutes of running on dino diesel, the water will have warmed the SVO heating gadgets and the SVO will burn nicely.

It is also possible to modify some cars to allow them to use SVO in a single tank system. I would only trust the conversions kits designed by Elsbett.

Sold from Germany by Greaseenergy:

<http://www.greasenergy-shop.com/epages/63102114.sf/en_US/?ViewObjectID=28949856>

Discussion here:

<http://www.repowernow.net/cars/diesel/elsbett.htm>

Bobby

, Nate <vwnate1@yahoo.com> wrote:

I bought the car not running as junk after the boobs in The People's Republik Of Santa Monika ran it into the ground by running god alone knows what mixtures of vegitable oil until it stopped running and refused to start again.....

After I beat the price down to scrap value and purchased it , I made it run and drove it off the lot in choking clouds of smoke then peaked & tweaked it whilst driving it another 20,000 miles before it died early one morning , then I rebuilt the engine (ouch) and have been happily driving the living hell out of it ever since on Dino Diesel , it's stylish , comfy and surprisingly fast , I love out running Sports Cars in the mounatins and canyons & deserts in it .

I am aware one can make Bio-Fuels @ home but to do it right is very time consuming not to mention the ever present oil slick so I choose to buy Petro Fuel .

-Nate
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Toward freedom,

Bobby Yates Emory