Running on bio,

[lozz]

Im trying out bio,derv,

mixed it 50/50 with pump derv,
runs fine but, theres More noise than before, injector noise,

is this normal,
or shouid i thin it down even more, ?

[rwb]

I had a tank of biodiesel a few years ago and it was very unhappy.
Engine anti-pollution system defective galore. Very down on power -- struggled to get to 60 on flat motorway. Was one of the few occasions where it nearly let me down.

[lozz]

I had a tank of biodiesel a few years ago and it was very unhappy.
Engine anti-pollution system defective galore. Very down on power -- struggled to get to 60 on flat motorway. Was one of the few occasions where it nearly let me down.

Needs to be mixed mate,
my old vreg wouidnt run on it long, sounded like a bag of spanners,

[grasmere59]

Could you run a car on heating oil? I've often wondered.

[lozz]

Could you run a car on heating oil? I've often wondered.

iknow some scrap lads that run there transits on it, they warm the oil up some how,
thats in ford transits tho, idont think id try it in the Hdi,

there is a few running on Transformer oil, feck knows where they liberate that from tho

[Bailes1992]

Any diesel can run on well made biodiesel.
During the proccess of making Bio you get Mehtanol. If this isn't removed then the car will run like a big, seals with deteriorate etc etc.

Try mixing some two stroke with the bio, about 300mls to a full tank. Low ash miniral based oil.

You could also try some millers ecomax to up the cetane too.

You can run a diesel on heating oil (Kerosene but it is illegal), think you may have to mix it with oil though. Old engine oil, two stroke etc etc.
This is because it's very corse and it will wear pumps etc etc.

[lozz]

smokes with 2 stroke,

[Bailes1992]

Theres something up! What two stroke you using and how much you putting in?

Two stroke ups the cetane of diesel so in theory it should burn cleaner and give less smoke

[grasmere59]

I worked with a bloke who tried running his heating boiler on transformer oil and smoked the neighbourhood out,i work on industrial boilers that run on bio heating oil,they used to run on red,they run clean as,it has the same consistancy as diesel but perhaps a bit thinner but is the same colour as diesel.If i didn't have an HDI i'd be sorely tempted.

[lozz]

ionly put 200ml in, kicked abit of smoke out, not alot but, that put me off,

Used Carlube two stroke,

iwill just run off whats in and Mix bio and pump derv 30/70 see what happens,
main thing is it runs on it, its just working out the right ratio,

[steve_earwig]

Could you run a car on heating oil? I've often wondered.

Yes, loads of people do it here but it's poorer quality and waxes when it's too cold (so just like the stuff from the pumps then )

[Bailes1992]

ionly put 200ml in, kicked abit of smoke out, not alot but, that put me off,

Used Carlube two stroke,

iwill just run off whats in and Mix bio and pump derv 30/70 see what happens,
main thing is it runs on it, its just working out the right ratio,

Could very well be the two stroke cleaning loads of crud out of the engine?

[lozz]

Ive added another few gallon of straight derv,
engine is quiet again,

but doing the Maths, something im not good at !

its pointless, not much savings, if the bio was abit cheaper itd be worth it,

iwill just run it on the pump stuff, for what its worth, getting 38 mpg round town so its not too bad,