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Darren:
From a BBC website http://www.bbc.co.uk/bloom/actions/cookingoil.shtml

""Is running a car on pure vegetable oil legal? Doesn't the government
levy tax on fuel?"

It's all perfectly above board, and there's no tax to pay unless you
use more than 2,500 litres a year (enough to take you about 20,000
miles). Hang on to your receipts in case you're ever asked to prove
you haven't exceeded the limit."


I used to do this around 7yrs ago, collected waste veg oil from local Kebab shop, filtered it though a bed sheet into a large bin that had a tap about 1/4 the way up (so remaining crud could settle below)
I ran a car on this neat with no added diesel for two years with no probs at all. Traveled all over the country.

Why did I stop? I found out that at the time it wasn't strictly legal and peeps were getting done for it. It seems the law may have changed now so maybe worth another look?

Brass_Machine:
There a kits you can get to convert diesels here to run on veggie oil. Grease cars!

Not sure what is involved in doing that. I started to look into it... maybe I should again. Been thinking of an electric commuter when I didn't have to drive as far to work. Maybe biodiesel is something else to consider.

How hard was it to get your car to run on veggie oil?


Eric

Darren:
Kit...!!!

Don't be silly....I just stuck it in

No conversion needed, nothing, not even an adjustment. I still see the car about sometimes as I sold it to a friend.

What you want is a pug engine with a heated fuel filter, mine was a Citroen ZX.

I panicked a bit in the winter mind, hard to start but fine once you got the chill off the engine. Diesels pump more fuel to the engine than they need, so some returns back to the tank and warms that a touch too.

It ran great, in fact it was smoother with cooking oil with less of the diesel knocking noise.

Bernd:
Eric,

You need quite a bit of veggie oil. There are presses you can buy to make your own. The only thing you'll need will be several hundred acres of sunflower seeds. Then you'll need to plant and till that field, harvest it, turn it into bio-diesel using some chemicals.You would be further behind then ahead.

Just do a Google on Bio diesel. let me know what you find when we meet at Cabin Fever.  :D

Bernd

Darren:
Guys,

Biodiesel is a smoke screen, designed to make you pay, inc taxes

My car ran on neat used cooking oil simply gravity filtered, and not that finely either. Two years as I said and not a spot of bother with the engine. I was doing about 40,000 miles a yr back then. Oil supply was not a problem. Shops where happy for you to take it away for free, otherwise they had to pay to dispose of it.

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