which engine oil is best?

well if we could get it up to 25% thats a good saving

Change ur fuel system seals /o rings for Viton or it'll end in tears before bedtime Fett!

fett said:

its a 1972 RRC , I am not sure what SU's they are , how would I tell? look on the tags? I am sure I wrote that down somewhere :doh: if not I could have a look at the weekend.

so will it run on methanol with nothing more than an needle change needed? whats it like for power better or worse?

will it disolve anything in my system?

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I buy methanol in 25 litre plastics.
I can buy it in a 1,000 litre crate-tank.

It is NOT methylated spirit - it is 99·5% pure METHANOL, methyl alcohol, CH5OH, and it contains practically NO water, probably less than is normally dissolved in diesel fuel, for example. Oh yes, experts will say diesel and water don't mix. CRAP. MOST diesel fuels are happy to absorb up to 1% of water - that would be up to a LITRE of water in my TD5 tank. This is good, because it means the condensation in the tank is taken away in the fuel. But, I digress.

If you used thinner needles in your carbs, and played with the spark timing, and got it running reasonably well on a 50-50 mix of methanol and petrol, your cost PER LITRE of fuel could go down from £1-30 a litre to about 85p a litre if you bought methanol in bulk at 40 p a litre.

It is up to you to say if that saving is worth the effort.

joe1972 said:

Change ur fuel system seals /o rings for Viton or it'll end in tears before bedtime Fett!

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sounds like alot of effort for what will prbably be a fook up and also I wont be able to fill up anywhere apart form home:doh:

I know, it's problems again

The thing is, if there was an alternative to petrol people would use it already. LPG is half way there.

As you say, once you change your fuel system you can't run petrol when you need it.

I'm not fitting LPG to mine, so I'll just use it as and when I can afford it on petrol.

It is a shame that the diesels can burn anything, but then again if I had to use the car that badly I would change the engine.

At the moment I'd much rather run the petrol as and when.

Thanks again to charlesy for the valid suggestions

Cheers

Mr Noisy said:

I know, it's problems again

The thing is, if there was an alternative to petrol people would use it already. LPG is half way there.

As you say, once you change your fuel system you can't run petrol when you need it.

I'm not fitting LPG to mine, so I'll just use it as and when I can afford it on petrol.

It is a shame that the diesels can burn anything, but then again if I had to use the car that badly I would change the engine.

At the moment I'd much rather run the petrol as and when.

Thanks again to charlesy for the valid suggestions

Cheers

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I have a centrifuge filter set up and have today centrifuged about 40 litres of mixed old oils, and I have put a bit over 20 litres into the Disco TD5 on top of about 30 litres of Dino-Fuel. I just saved £25 less 15p for electricity to run the centrifuge.

Tomorrow I will blend the other 20 litres of this oil with about 80 litres of thicker reclaimed oil and spin-filter that in 20 - 25 litre batches. About an hour of re-circulation filtering seems to do a good job. .

My plan is to use the reclaimed oil (which is FREE) about half-in-half with pump fuel, thus taking my net fuel cost down from £1.30 a litre to 65p a litre. When was diesel last 65p a litre?

The car runs normally (or a little better?) on reclaimed oil blends. Oil is oil, and provided the filtration is good, there's little to worry about. The TD5 fuel filter works to a smaller sizer than most filters, and many other Landy engines could use TD5 filters and have cleaner fuel.

Just carry spare filters all the time because fine filters choke easier too.

Your local garages might be quite happy to give you their old oil to take away. They might even make an effort not to let it get too dirty.

yeah but I can only use v8's

Charlesy, aint that just the beauty of an oil burner! Honestly i would love to have one just for the fun of making fuel from scrap - but as fett says, im in the same boat, and wouldnt be able to lose the v8 in my disco, its the heart of the car - i have passion for that engine!

i say again though, great work youre doing there with the reclamation.

we are lucky that someone takes our engine oil at work for free, otherwise we'd have to PAY to get rid of it!! if i had a diesel i could run my car off it - we just scrapped about 200 litres of clean (read:not gungey) used oil which had taken about a year to accumulate.

i also get through lots of paint thinners, and we end up with about 100 litres a year of that, used, with various paints and oils in it, low concentration. the sediment settles out in the drum anyway.

i wonder if you could thin the oil with a bit of thinners and pour it in? no pump fuel

Mr Noisy said:

Charlesy, aint that just the beauty of an oil burner! Honestly i would love to have one just for the fun of making fuel from scrap - but as fett says, im in the same boat, and wouldnt be able to lose the v8 in my disco, its the heart of the car - i have passion for that engine!

As long as I don't hear a V-8 running I can manage with my Diesel TD5 !

i say again though, great work youre doing there with the reclamation.

we are lucky that someone takes our engine oil at work for free, otherwise we'd have to PAY to get rid of it!! if i had a diesel i could run my car off it - we just scrapped about 200 litres of clean (read:not gungey) used oil which had taken about a year to accumulate.

i also get through lots of paint thinners, and we end up with about 100 litres a year of that, used, with various paints and oils in it, low concentration. the sediment settles out in the drum anyway.

i wonder if you could thin the oil with a bit of thinners and pour it in? no pump fuel

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Thinners CLEAN might be OK, but if there was ANY paint residue in it I personally would not used it as a fuel or dilutant. I would worry about some of the "funny stuff" that is in paint.

The ideal fuid for thinning engine oil is diesel itself, or the stuff they drain from tanks when people put in the wrong fuel.

Neat engine oil might be too thick for comfort, but half-in-half with pump diesel would be ( IS ) perfectly good.

Every litre of reclaimed oil that goes in the tank is £1.30 saved, so if you have to buy HALF of your fuel and use half reclaimed, your fuel costs only 65p a litre average.

yeah exactly. its a simple mix and a great saving.

could thin it with new white spirit, or vegetable oil in the summer.

all of those things would no doubt run the engine.

i'd just begrudge using any pump fuel (where possible) if i was intot the swing of reclaming my fuel already.

i love the guys that run 200tdis on vege oil "just nipping to aldi for a fill up"