adding the petrol helps ensure that the oil doesnt go gloopy when the temp drops it's got nothing to do with helping it ignite
i've been running near 100% even when it's been frosty in the mornings i've had no problems starting
Bad news on the veg oil front!
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adding the petrol helps ensure that the oil doesnt go gloopy when the temp drops it's got nothing to do with helping it ignite
i've been running near 100% even when it's been frosty in the mornings i've had no problems starting
How much petrol do you add to it? I've read someone else's thread that they reckon bout 1/2L P to 10L of SVO is this about right?
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Noticed Tesco are now doing Soya oil for 80ppl...
DO NOT PUT THIS IN YER ENGINE!!! - i heard it ain;t so good and fooks it up! Summat about strands in it knackering the pump or summat?
DO NOT PUT THIS IN YER ENGINE!!! - i heard it ain;t so good and fooks it up! Summat about strands in it knackering the pump or summat?
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I've used loads of tesco's cheapest veg oil which if you read the ingredients is in fact soya oil. No problems whatsoever with it.Lidl's is me favourite at the mo mind
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Thought tescos basic was rapeseed oil?
Twas just something i picked up on some forum or other a while back, which people were saying did something really bad, will try and find it and stuff it on ere!
Twas just something i picked up on some forum or other a while back, which people were saying did something really bad, will try and find it and stuff it on ere!
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this chap reckons it causes excess polymerisation in the injectors...
vegetableoildiesel.co.uk - Use of straight canola oil? - Powered by XMB
and coz it's on tinternet it must be true
vegetableoildiesel.co.uk - Use of straight canola oil? - Powered by XMB
and coz it's on tinternet it must be true
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Aye you're right if it's on't net it must be true. All I know is I've used hundreds of litres of the stuff and had no problems. I'm on lidl's now a/ cos it's cheaper than tesco's and b/ cos there's never a queue at the till in lidl.
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On the subject of petro/white spirit I know a bloke who used to run several vehicles on wvo. He used it neat(ie not mixed with pump diesel) and used to add about 1litre white spirit to 25l oil just to thin it down a bit. He ran a landy, a peugeot and a transit on it with no probs. In the old days before they put all the posh modern additives into derv the truckers used to bung a gallon of petrol in the tank to stop the derv gelling up in the winter. I've put a gallon or so of petrol into my tank by mistake before and couldn't tell the difference.
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yarbutnobutyarbutnobut
if you put white spirit in it the dippers will no longer treat the veg as biodiesel and the whole lot will be subject to duty
Am full of truths of dubious truth off tinternet tonight me! (but that one was on the email that got posted again the other day from the CnE bod)
if you put white spirit in it the dippers will no longer treat the veg as biodiesel and the whole lot will be subject to duty
Am full of truths of dubious truth off tinternet tonight me! (but that one was on the email that got posted again the other day from the CnE bod)
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Theres never a queue in Lidls cause theres never anyone manning the tills so people just bugger off!
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They stopped putting people on the tills COZ people just buggered off, money saving exercise!
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O.k. Who the ferk told Oddie
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Reet everyone round Oddies house tur stock up
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Don't bother - am already there!
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just on the outskirts of Glasgow, a little village called Kernow if yer interested...
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knock knock...hello...oh evenin Trewy, cuppa tea? will make it wiv Pura if yer want, tis cheaper than water! No, ok cheers then...hang on, why's the back o yer Landy draggin on the groond...and why's me shed door open ...TREWY get ere!!!
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TEA! YEEEEEECCCCHHHHHHHHH
err, no thanks, am in a hurry........
