Hi Jonathan,
A straightforward question deserves, & will get, a straightforward answer:
Personal preference due to E-85 fuel is not available (that I know of) in
Georgia. I've also read in my Chrysler Owner's manual that you have to use
a special type of motor oil if you use E-85 fuel. If you don't, there will
be excessive engine wear.
Hope that helps.
Regards,
Gregg
Jonathan Schearer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Gregg, I have a question to ask you about your FFV T&C minivan. I have
read that these are designed to run any blend of gasoline and ethanol, up
to 85% ethanol. Why are you running biodiesel and not ethanol? Personal
preference? Ethanol not available in your area? Just curious, that's all.
Thanks. Jonathan.
Gregg Davidson wrote:Hi Keith,
Glad I could be of help to folks that have questions. I haven't had much
time to make any more BD than the 5 or 6 gallons I made recently. I added
about 2.2 gallons (a bit over 10%) to the fuel in my Chrysler T&C mini van
earlier this month. The 3.3 L V-6 Flex Fuel engine seemed to like the
that. Since the Jeeps are fairly new, I only add about .5 gallons to their
fuel, while adding 10% to the fuel of my lawn tractors. As soon as I have
the chance to make more BD, I'll use it more frequently in the vehicles.
Respectfully,
Gregg
Keith Addison wrote:
Hi Gregg
Thanks for this, that takes it all forward a whole lot.
Unfortunately, Franklin's email account has been non-functional for a
while. I hope he'll rejoin us and give us further news of his work
with biodiesel, in both 2-strokes and gasoline engines.
Hello Al,
I'm the one that posted a while back about mixing a percentage of
BD, about 10 - 15%, with my gas & using it in my lawnmower, as well
as my mini van & Jeeps. It was sucessful. So far, I add BD to my gas
frequently. This cleans the build-up out. I noticed my mileage drops
a bit, but when I fill up with 100% gasoline, I get better mileage &
power. To this day, I have not had any sort of engine problems.
Do you have more detail on the frequency you've used BD?
I recall seeing something in the archives at Journey To Forever,
Not at Journey to Forever.
but since things have been moved to a new server, they might be here.
The list has been using the excellent Infoarchive provided by list
member Martin Klingensmith for the last two years, as Yahoo's archive
became ever more useless. That hasn't changed - all list messages
from the start of the list are filed at the Infoarchive, and
constantly updated. It has powerful and fast search functions.
The link is at the end of every message you receive:
Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable):
http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
Now that we've dumped Yahoo we also have a new archive, where
messages are stored by the week, also constantly updated, and
viewable by Thread, Subject, Author or Date, but it's not searchable,
and it starts from when the list moved on 9 September.
This achives is linked at the top of every message you receive:
List-Archive:
I'm sure Keith can tell you if you contact him.
I did, onlist, but I shouldn't have to. It's even in the List rules -
more guidance than rules, though there are rules too:
"The archives contains more than 38,000 messages over nearly five
years. The question you want to ask or the topic you're interested in
has probably already been covered. That's no reason not to ask it
again, but if you know what's gone before you'll ask a better
question and get better answers."
Everyone's been referred to that at least once. List members should
know how to use the archives and do it as a matter of course. The
Rules are here:
http://wwia.org/pipermail/biofuel/Week-of-Mon-20040906/000005.html
For instance, so far, apart from news items, very little that's been
said in the current discussion on Bush, Kerry, Iraq, Afghanistan,
Israel etc, hasn't already been discussed, affirmed, confirmed,
substantiated, debunked, discredited, blown right out of the water,
probably several times. A look at the archives first would yield a
better, more constructive discussion, from which everybody benefits.
Otherwise it just goes round and round, to little avail, and with
much more risk of it degenerating into a flame war.
PLEASE, everybody, use the archives!
Best wishes
Keith
Respectfully,
Gregg Davidson
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote:
Hi,
Sometime ago someone was talking about doing there own testing of mixing
10% biodeisel in gas, and running there lawnmower on it. I think that in
that same email, there was talk about trying the same test on a minivan.
As fas as I know there was never an email about the result of running
biodiesel as a top cyclinger lubricant in a minivan. If anyone has some
data one this I would really like to read it.
Thanks,
Al
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