Old stinky, the diesel Jetta, gave us a scare today. I had heard that Randy from Canadian EV ran his truck on strait fryer fat. I worked up to this, did diesel/fryer fat mixing tests, ran the car on 50% fryer fat 50% diesel mixed together, until today.
Today I just dumped 40 liters of golden brown french fry goodness in the tank. I then topped the tank up with a whole 2 liters of diesel fuel. Yes thats 565mpg on paid for diesel, ridiculousness.
The plan was to drive back to Edmonton, and run a few errands, at that point it would take another 15 liters of diesel to dilute it the golden goodness down a bit. Well we didn't get 5 min out of Andrew, when Ol Stinky quit.
Really, it won't run on strait canola oil without excessive heat? No that wasn't the problem, although it was first suspect. A quick walk back to the gas station for a jerry can of diesel, and a quick fuel filter change, primed w diesel, and she fired rite up. We were going to go back to the house, drain 20 liters of fryer oil out the tank, and top it up w diesel, but when there was no more problem I wrote it off as a clogged filter. problem solved.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
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