Tax Free Bio Diesel Is Coming !!!!!!!!!!!

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Feck me,

Anyone planning on running their landy on veg oil / bio diesel, take a read of this page:

http://www.dieselveg.com/

As of Summer we can drive so many miles without having to declare it, send returns or pay tax on veg oil. This means instead of paying 95p a litre for DERV, we can buy veg oil for around 45-50p per litre.

This is music to my ears. As of summer it will no longer be expensive for me to run my landy :D

-Pos
 
I think theres more involved than simply buying a bulk container of 'Fry Crisp N Dry' and chucking it in the fuel tank. It seems a good idea but there are conversion costs involved surely?
 
just search for it on here, there have been hundreds of posts involving mixes and 100% bio. thrown in with some links to sites which tell you more than you need to know...

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As long as you get it thinned down to the same consistancy as standard DERV and you're sure that there's no glycerine there to clog up the pipes you're fine!

Simple as that
-Pos
 
You can get away with it in the summer with very little thining, but in the winter in needs thinning right down, or heateing up.

I prefer the heating idea as it will probobally save you more money in the long run.
 
Veg oil is NOT the same as BioDiesel.

BioDiesel is made from veg oil, using one of several processes all of which involve nasty chemicals.

Veg oil as it comes is a good fuel for diesel engines, BUT, all our engines are designed with a much thinner (less thick, less viscous) oil in mind for fuel.

Even heated, straight veg oil (known as SVO) is too thick in many engines, and SVO will probably leave bad deposits in the cylinders.

But SVOm mixed about 50-50 with diesel or ebven BioDiesel seems to be just fine. Or, thin it down some way, such as with 10% to 15% of kerosene. Tax man won't approve of kerosene in the tank but if it's kero mixed with SVO, it isn't easy to find.

Remember, for every litre of SVO you put in the tank, you are still saving about 50pence of tax. You don't need to save it on every litre of fuel.

A good mix will do the job well.

CHarlesY
 
CharlesY said:
Veg oil is NOT the same as BioDiesel.

BioDiesel is made from veg oil, using one of several processes all of which involve nasty chemicals.

Veg oil as it comes is a good fuel for diesel engines, BUT, all our engines are designed with a much thinner (less thick, less viscous) oil in mind for fuel.

Even heated, straight veg oil (known as SVO) is too thick in many engines, and SVO will probably leave bad deposits in the cylinders.

But SVOm mixed about 50-50 with diesel or ebven BioDiesel seems to be just fine. Or, thin it down some way, such as with 10% to 15% of kerosene. Tax man won't approve of kerosene in the tank but if it's kero mixed with SVO, it isn't easy to find.

Remember, for every litre of SVO you put in the tank, you are still saving about 50pence of tax. You don't need to save it on every litre of fuel.

A good mix will do the job well.

CHarlesY
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That makes sence, i herd that mixing it with kerosene was bad and would kill your injuin, or is this just myth.
 
Lazy Landy said:
That makes sence, i herd that mixing it with kerosene was bad and would kill your injuin, or is this just myth.
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Landy Engines will run on Kero regardless of what people tell you. The Septics out in Eye-rack have a fleet of TD5's simply because Hummers won't run on straight Kero, and the TD5 had been fully tested during it's development cycle.

It's the man from the revenue doesn't like Kero - it's strictly forbidden to use in a road taxed vehicle.
 
Beware running on neat kersosene - you WILL damage your injection pump, and in the case of the TD5 with Delphi injectors, you will wreck them quite quickly.

Thios is because kerosene has virtuallly no lubrication quality. So .... you mix your kerosene with cheap engine oil, more or less any grade, but the best would be a straight SAE 30 grade. You would need to add about half a pint of oil to two gallons of kerosene, one part in 32 or so.

But, more won't matter as the oil will be cunsumed in the engine as well as the kerosene anyway, so if you used one litre of oil for every 20 litres of kerosene, you would get along fine.

Using kero as a road fuel is naughty.

But kerosene to thin down straight veg oil would be a plan.

CharlesY
 
CharlesY said:
Veg oil is NOT the same as BioDiesel.


Remember, for every litre of SVO you put in the tank, you are still saving about 50pence of tax. You don't need to save it on every litre of fuel.


CHarlesY
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Only if you're being a naughty boy. If you're doing it by the book and paying the duty as you're sposed to veg oil works out more expensive than diesel. :D Plus you risk having your landy taken off you by the men from the whatever the ministry is called these days:eek:
 
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