Don,
A modest amount of SVO will not harm your car but long
term SVO use can cause severe engine damage due to
combustion deposits and byproducts including epoxies,
corrosives, and carbon compounds. These deposits
affect injector spray patterns, piston rings, and
other mechanical components. Biodiesel does not have
this problem because the glycerines and sugars that
create combustion deposits are removed by
transesterification.
Bruce
--- Donald Snook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dieselers,
>
>
>
> I have been putting B100 in my car at 5 gallon
> intervals topped of with
> #2 Diesel as a tonic for my car. I understand that
> it acts as a solvent
> and cleans out the whole fuel system. I do notice
> that when I get the
> B100 (before I fill up with #2) and I drive around
> with just the B100
> that my car (90 300D 2.5) puts out dramatically less
> smoke (i.e.
> basically none or very little at wide open
> throttle). I do thing it
> seems to run quieter.
>
>
>
> I feel better about using this alternative fuel and
> doing my part to
> reduce our fossil fuel consumption (if it actually
> does reduce it).
>
>
>
> Here's my question:
>
>
>
> At any rate, I know that biodiesel is simply soy oil
> that has been
> "transestrified" (I am sure that is not the exact
> term or its
> spelling). What has to be done to plain old soy oil
> to use it in my
> car? Can I just buy it at CostCo/Sam's and dump it
> into my tank and the
> rate of about 1 part oil to two parts #2 diesel. Do
> I have to do
> anything else? B100 has had the water removed,
> correct? Do I have to
> do that with food grade soy oil?
>
>
>
> Donald H. Snook
>
> McDonald, Tinker, Skaer, Quinn & Herrington, P.A.
>
> 300 West Douglas
>
> P.O. Box 207
>
> Wichita, Kansas 67201 0207
>
> Tel. (316) 263-5851
>
>
Bruce
82 300CD 334kmi 'His'
85 300CD 236kmi 'Hers'
75 240D 194kmi 'Donner'
77 240D 204kmi 'Blitzen'
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