Couple of interesting messages below from Martin Steele, ace Brit biodieseller, following a spot of bovver with his Volvo.
Keith Addison Journey to Forever Handmade Projects Tokyo http://journeytoforever.org/ #1: I took my injectors out to do an inspection and guess what, serves someone else right, no 2 snapped off in the block. Anyway she is going in to a professional engineer, I can do the work but these days I get pissed with cut fingers. The other 5 injectors were done 15,000 miles ago, total mileage on bio = 32,000. The moral of the story is, you wouldnt leave spark plugs in for 100,000 miles so why leave injectors in that long, whip 'em out, strip 'em, clean 'em, reassemble, refit, irrespective of whether you run on Bio d or Diesel, if you follow these simple steps your troubles will be few. :-( WEEEEEEP. #2: What a day, we finally cracked the cylinder head open, I waited with baited breath, what was about to be revealed was beyond my best hopes, all five pots (No 2 injector was stuck when I bought the car, 1-3-4-5-6 were cleaned on purchase and refitted, 15,000 miles ago they were replaced, only no 2 stayed put) were in immaculate order, the cylinder head also was almost totally carbon free. Inlet and exhaust ports are clean, valves are free from burning or pitting, all injectors chattered like 5 little chaffinches when tested @ 155 BAR, on stripping they too were free from corrosion pitting and rust, around the tip of the injector oil was visible, unusual, usually carbon would be found. All in all the fuel system was in immaculate order, the usual engine wear and tear was visible but not indicative of bad fuel or poor burning. What this exercise proves is that well-made methyl ester is every bit as good as diesel or commercially produced Bio d. So to produce and run for 30,000 miles, strip down and write report with photographic evidence = £0.00. Wonder how much that would cost if you went to some bungling Govt department, or a University, the result a 90-page document of sheer twaddle that bores you witless after page one, at a cost of millions. SOMETHING IS VERY WRONG! Martin Steele. Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
