[DMCForum] Re: Gas alternatives, then?

["Joe OBrien" <joeyoseppijoe@xxxxxxxxx>]

I helped a friend convert one of my former diesels, mainly by setting 
him up with all the parts. I've talked it over with him many times 
since the conversion was made. It is an amazing setup. I was envious 
as hell for even selling the car once I learned of this.

There are 2 main options to use. 1, you can convert your entire stock 
tank to run on veggie oil, and use a small 3 or 6 gallon auxiliary 
tank of regular diesel for the warmup and shutdown cycles. There is a 
bit more work involved in that method, but the upside is you can haul 
more veggie oil around with you.

The other more popular, and easier method it to keep you stock tank 
running pure diesel, and do what I am going to do which is add an 
auxiliary 12 gallon veggie oil tank. It has a tank heater that is 
hooked up off your cooling system to warm the grease to a proper 
temperature, along with an extra temp gauge in the car for the grease 
tank. Once you have reached 160-170 degrees, you flip a switch tp 
start using veggie oil instead of diesel. You then drive like normal, 
just about 10 minues before you shut down the engine you flip back to 
regular diesel to purge the lines and injectors of and grease 
residue. The you are using your main tank for only warmup and 
shutdown cycles.Your tank of diesel can last 5 months or more going 
like this. That is the short and sweet version.

And to process the veggie oil, you simply heat it, filter it several 
times, then store it.

When I go full blown, I hope to pick up some spare 55 gallon 
hydraulic oil drums, clean them out, then use them as my veggie oil 
depository till the rabbit needs more free gas.

I've already talked with several restaurants that will all willingly 
give me their cooking oil so they don;t half to dispose of it. Even 
the local chinese restaurant will give me as much as I can handle.

Then I just take it home, heat it, filter it, then store it.

My version of saying screw OPEC ad the greedy Big Oil that is ruining 
this world.

I feel comfortable doing this to $1,000 diesel rabbits, but might 
have a bit of an issue doing this to a new $30,000 TDI Passat. 

I've considered buying a Prius, and maybe waiting for the plug in 
conversion kits to become available, but the greasel conversions, are 
just cheaper in the long run, till maybe plug in hybrids, or serial 
hybrids can finally see the light of day through the big black oil 
cloud that distorts our governments ability to think.

A serial hybrid with a 2 cylinder diesel powering batteries to drive 
electric motors would be the ideal solution to an oil crisis using 
technology that is available today, instead of buying into the 
hydrogen hype. Hydrogen may one day be the future, but for for a 
least a decade or two, if that. Vertain people in government like to 
tout hydrigen as a fix for our energy crisis, because the answer is 
an easy one that lets them avoid the current problems of today.

Aak, I gotta stop before I start preaching about Peak Oil and all the 
other issues we have brewing.


I'll keep the group posted on the status of my greasel conversion 
regularly.


Later,

Joe O'Brien

2524,
16634,
16851, all driving off of 65 million year old oil that is running out!







--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Marc Levy <malevy_nj@xxxx> wrote:
> You have done this before?  Can you discuss the
> process of finding someone to give you the oil? 
> transporting it home?  then processing it for use as
> fuel?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> --- Joe OBrien <joeyoseppijoe@xxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Well I for one am in the process in the next month
> > or so to convert a 
> > nice Diesel Rabbit I bought off eBay.
> ><SNIP>
> 
> 
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