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Vegtable oil in diesel engnes

Alias G · 2007-09-10 18:51:40

Anyone on here ever tried running an unmodified diesel engine on cooking grade vegtable oil as fuel. I've run a 10 year old passat on a 50% mixture for a few weeks and didn't encounter any problems even during winter. A slight loss in power was appreciable but the mileage if anything increased. Was just wondering what…

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10-09-2007 7:51pm

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Alias G

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Anyone on here ever tried running an unmodified diesel engine on cooking grade vegtable oil as fuel. I've run a 10 year old passat on a 50% mixture for a few weeks and didn't encounter any problems even during winter. A slight loss in power was appreciable but the mileage if anything increased. Was just wondering what other peoples experiences have been regarding this. Does anyone have any horror stories.

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