That's horse crap if the BioD is properly washed and NOT rancid. Fuel
system problems are mostly cause by the solvent nature of BioD washing
out the crap that years of PetroD usage left behind. Other issues are
due to soy oils being the quickest to go rancid, on the order of 6mo or
so. Other oils (peanut, canola/rapeseed, corn) have a much longer shelf
life and will not cause pitting of your fuel system.
When the BioD is properly washed to rid it of excess methanol and lye,
then dried to remove water, the ONLY downside is that it has less energy
per molecule than diesel and your fuel economy will be less. Countering
that, is that BioD has about 20% MORE oxygen than PetroD and burns much
more completely.
Luther KB5QHU Oak Park, IL
'87 300SDL (312,xxx mi)
'91 Dodge Ram 150 (290,xxx mi)
On 7/15/2011 2:41 PM, Allan Streib wrote:
Don't forget to account for the increased expenses in injector and pump
rebuilds.
On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:59 -0400, "andrew strasfogel"<astrasfo...@gmail.com>
wrote:
We own three W123 turbodiesels so this is very tempting. Cost is about
$1700 + $450 more for the "dry washing" feature. We have lots of
restaurants that probably would be happy to get rid of their fryer
grease; the main snag might be the cost and ease of obtaining NAOH (caustic
soda). I also wonder how much lye and water is consumed per batch, and what
the brew would do to our fuel lines.,
http://biobuddy.us.com/faq.html
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