As clean & pristine as Tony keeps is old Coach , I'm sure he properly filtered his WVO too .
You alls can do as you like but , with the high milage and hard use I put on my poor old Mercedes Diesel Sports Coupe , I think I'll just keep on with refined dead dinosaurs for now....
_one_ $5,000.00 engine rebuild , definately caused by improperly prepared veggie oil , was enough for me ! .
I prefer to learn from others mistakes .
Yes , it can be done .
Will _you_ never tire of the un ending labor , mess and generalB.S. and take that -one-time- shortcut ? .
Who knows , I see dead veggie oil conversions in PickA-Part al the time .
-Nate
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> So in my 8mpg bus conversion, I was running up to 50% wvo, mixed into the main tank. After one season, as we were nearing home 150miles away, Piston 1 stopped, Pistons 2 through 6 kept on doing their thing.
> The towing bill was around $2,000 (had insurance phew) the new used motor was $3500, 2 months work to install by YT, and another $8,000 for mechanic work to install my jake brakes and bolt up the transmission generally much mucking about to get rolling again. We fluked on the new eng, it had just been rebuilt when they dropped a crane on the truck it was in.
> I do not think it was the veggie oil that caused piston one to stop (boy you shoulda seen the mess, cylinder liner in pieces, con rod pretselled,etc) but much as I cannot afford the $500 fill up on Dino D, I cannot take a chance on a $12,000 eng rebuild.
> Tony
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