Saturday, April 23, 2011

Filtering Fryer Oil

Just a simple vid of my simple cheap fuel filter. The car has a filter to its required specs, this just takes the french fry bits out, that can cause problems with the tank pick up tube and stuff. Even still, be prepared for road side filter changes if you haven't gone through the tedious task of pushing this stuff through a 10 micron filter.

This vegtable oil was progressively mixed with less and less diesel fuel. I now run it at 80% fryer oil and 20% diesel oil. The car puts up a bit of protest starting, but less than it did starting in the winter. That gets me 160 mpg on the diesel fuel I have to pay for.

Soon I will have the biodiesel reactor dialed back up, and I can run B20, 20% biodiesel, 80% fryer oil, and never stop at a gas station again.

This website will go through the process of adding a seperate fryer oil tank for the winter, making biodiesel, dropping a VW diesel into a Dodge minivan with the sole intention of running it on fryer oil, and rebuilding the old vegie truck.