oi pikey (or other veg oil user's)

oi pikey..

right been searching this place and other's for info on veggie oil useage.

i know its been covered a millionbillion time's and feel a **** having to make a fred but..

i is all confused about it..

do i want a heater and use my tank thats fitted with a derv/veg mix or..

do i want to purchase myself a two tank system..

or do i even require a heater if using a mix of 70% veggie to 30% derv oil??

and doe's it make me disco smell like a mobile chip van???

oh btw its a 200tdi with 198.000+ mile's ont clock so she's not the youngest filiy in the paddock..

/me sit's back and wait's to get both the **** took and the answer's required(not nessacerly in that order )

Right at 70/30 you'll be alright in the summer but for the winter I wouldn't go below 50/50. If your gonna go down the heater route then get a small tank to start/finish with and fill it with diesel and fill the main tank with veg-oil. Yes it'll smell like a chippy but you'll be saving so much dosh you won't give a ****.

Mine had done 199k and happily ran on a mix of 2ltrs of veg oil 1 ltr of diesel.

spudy said:

oi pikey..

right been searching this place and other's for info on veggie oil useage.

i know its been covered a millionbillion time's and feel a **** having to make a fred but..

i is all confused about it..

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do i want a heater and use my tank thats fitted with a derv/veg mix

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nope

or..

do i want to purchase myself a two tank system..

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nope

or do i even require a heater if using a mix of 70% veggie to 30% derv oil??

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probably not

and doe's it make me disco smell like a mobile chip van???

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yup

oh btw its a 200tdi with 198.000+ mile's ont clock so she's not the youngest filiy in the paddock..

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aye yer no kiddin'

me sit's back and wait's to get both the **** took and the answer's required(not nessacerly in that order )

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As if

Ere spud, mines is a 200tdi and it's fine runnin' 50/50. That's what ah had in me tank when a met up wi' ye BTW, runs better anaw.

redhand said:

Right at 70/30 you'll be alright in the summer but for the winter I wouldn't go below 50/50. If your gonna go down the heater route then get a small tank to start/finish with and fill it with diesel and fill the main tank with veg-oil. Yes it'll smell like a chippy but you'll be saving so much dosh you won't give a ****.

Mine had done 199k and happily ran on a mix of 2ltrs of veg oil 1 ltr of diesel.

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cheer's pikey me ol china..i will do a 50/50 till summer then....which week is that again lol

bustersbus said:

aye yer no kiddin'


As if

Ere spud, mines is a 200tdi and it's fine runnin' 50/50. That's what ah had in me tank when a met up wi' ye BTW, runs better anaw.

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cheeky **** only i is allowed to mock my baby's age and condition

and cool i will do that buster mate..(althou i thought the smell was from you not the bus lol )

spudy said:

cheeky **** only i is allowed to mock my baby's age and condition

and cool i will do that buster mate..(althou i thought the smell was from you not the bus lol )

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If ye do decde tae do it spud, ffs keep an eye on yer fuel filter, change it after a couple or three hundred miles or ye'llend up with a mess like this...

Oh aye don't forget to change that filter, I did mine after 1000 miles.

thats the veg oil striping all the crap outta the line's right buster ??

i take it that i do this 200-300 mile's after first useage not every 200-300 mile's??

i do a service every six month's (oil fuel air filter's..plus new decent oil) as it is at mo, will this still be fine?

Once you've changed the filter you just change it as per normal after that.

cheer's for that pikey mate..

i am due to do a full filter change in the next few week's so will start running on a 50/50 mix and then do the filter change after 500 mile's(bout two weeks useage)..

cheer's again buster and pikey for your advice

spudy said:

thats the veg oil striping all the crap outta the line's right buster ??

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Aye and yer tank ah think

i take it that i do this 200-300 mile's after first useage not every 200-300 mile's??

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Think so, only changed mines once (which reminds me...)

i do a service every six month's (oil fuel air filter's..plus new decent oil) as it is at mo, will this still be fine?

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Aye, just carry on as normal

prob worth changing engine oil a little more freq esp with an older engine cause unburnt veg oil seeping past yer rings (no inuendo pls!) contaminates it.

Adding kerosine lowers the waxing temp for those not too worried about plods opinion, 70/30 veg to kerosine gives you to about -10'C depending on the oil

found mine runs rough for the first five mins or so , worse when it gets frosty so back to using derv. run fine when warm . tried going down to 25% mix, will try again when it gets warmer so I can sus out why my 200 tdi defender was so keen on the mix.

has anyone tried bunging in a gallon of petrol in to a tank full to help ease cold starting?

slob said:

has anyone tried bunging in a gallon of petrol in to a tank full to help ease cold starting?

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No but I've heard of lots of peeps using Kerosene whaich i believe is Parafin to us english speaking folk.

slob said:

has anyone tried bunging in a gallon of petrol in to a tank full to help ease cold starting?

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i put a few litres in mine the other day in anticipation of a heavy frost, can't say that it started any better as mine allways starts instantly (with no heat) but it did appear to run slightly less lumpy for the first few minutes before it warmed slightly and ran fine as normal - and that's on almost 100% veg

My 2.5td goes like this. Fine on 70/30 mix of veg/diesel but now running 50/50 just in case of any starting issues. Slightly rough tickover on frosty mornings. Pulls slightly better up hills and goes 2 or 3 miles further on a gallon than it does on 100% diesel. I've changed the fuel filter twice since I started using veg oil and neither time was there any crap in it whatsoever. Surely any veg oil seeping past your rings won't do any more harm than diesel would?? I don't really care if it ****s up my pump or whatever cos in a year I'll have saved the cost of a tdi to bung in it

hughesy said:

My 2.5td goes like this. Fine on 70/30 mix of veg/diesel but now running 50/50 just in case of any starting issues. Slightly rough tickover on frosty mornings. Pulls slightly better up hills and goes 2 or 3 miles further on a gallon than it does on 100% diesel. I've changed the fuel filter twice since I started using veg oil and neither time was there any crap in it whatsoever. Surely any veg oil seeping past your rings won't do any more harm than diesel would?? I don't really care if it ****s up my pump or whatever cos in a year I'll have saved the cost of a tdi to bung in it

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My sentiments exactly. Bravo old chap.

Remember, adding about 10% kerosene to a veg oil brew makes all the difference in cold weather.

CharlesY said:

Remember, adding about 10% kerosene to a veg oil brew makes all the difference in cold weather.

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Yeah and it'll smell like somebody's cookin chips on one of them old paraffin stoves......lush

ach well thats me going back to mixing again seems mines no doing anything that naebody else is doing , rough ideling and smoking abit , do mis that chip shop smell