I ran a gallon through my 240D, it didn't seem to hurt anything.
If I had a good source here in MA of veggie oil at a reasonable price like
$1.25 a gallon I'd say in some. Unfortunately I don't really have anywhere to
keep it yet
so I'd be limited to 10 gallons or so. Once we get our house I intend to see
about
getting 100 gallons or so. Plan on just mixing it in with the diesel. If I can
get it for
$1.50 a gallon and I mix 25% thats $6 a week assuming fuel doesn't get any more
expensive and
I don't need to drive any less (both are bad assumptions).
-Curt
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i've actually run the same experiment on my 81 TD
ran nicely for about 5 miles, albeit it smelled funny.
turns out veggie acts as kind of a solvent and does a nice job of
bringing
all the algae and such into the fuel system.
about 15 inline filters later, all was well
i have some doubts about using veggie long term, but largely because i
consider it unproven. my neighbor is a veggie nut and he has run maybe
9k
miles on it.
cheap/free fuel is very appealing though, too appealing right now to
think
that veggie is going to go away. our friend oren will deliver ready to
go
veggie fuel at $1.25 a gallon for those who dont want to mess with it.
or
you can just gather and make your own for cost of your time and effort.
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Howdy -
A couple of weeks ago my battery and alternator died. Installed a new
battery and an alternator from Rusty and all was well.
Tonight my wife was starting to work - got about 5 miles from home and she
called to say the ABS light was on - then the SRS light came on and the AC
slowed down as the battery seemed to die. She turned around and transferred
to the 240D (old reliable) before heading off to work again. I tried to
restart it after she pulled into the driveway and it would not turn over.
I plan to charge the battery overnight and put my meter on it tomorrow
to see what the alt and battery are doing.
Is that the best way to proceed?
Does it sound like I may have a bad alternator and/or battery -
I'm no whiz on electrical stuff so any ideas would be helpful - also, I'll
check the battery cables and ground straps 1st but I checked them a while
back and they were OK - but I'll check again.
Larry T (67 MGB, 74 911, 78 240D, 91 300D)
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