A diesel can run on Grease frying grease from like restaurants and stuff but you got to filter it out several times and it's way cheaper so like you can ask restaurants if they're getting rid of the grease stuff because they usually do from frying and stuff sometimes most of the time they will pay you to get rid of it but just don't tell them that you're using it for your diesel or they'll charge you
that dexron probably would have been gangster with the turbo actually on it, it was actually "over fueling" and now needs more air to clean up the exhaust smoke. know a guy that runs his 7.3 on mercon, says it actually works fine when you actually have enough air coming in to keep up. 🙂
Would say make a 50/50 mix of the cooking oil and volara fail that install a injector to feed Kerosene straight into the fuel line making a thinner diesel oil
Thats why gov's here put a tax onto kitchen oil so it still cost approx. same as diesel fuel, in summer you have absolutely no trouble running old diesel engines with oil. In winter it started to "jelly-ize" pretty quick. And used oil from kitchen lost most of its greasiness and is full of debris.
Actually it was coal dust. But due to it dangerously exploding and almost killing him, he changed to something less dangerous and designed the working version to run on peanut oil
More than 100 years later we find out it works really good on vegetable oil, even better thant diesel oil. After all, the engine was indeed adapted to work on petroloum based oil after his misteryous death, rumored to have been planned by petroleum companies...
I ran my van on used cooking oil for several years. You just have to filter it really, really well. People used to say my van smelled like a frying pan. You get more power because the oil burns hotter, and the engine runs smoother.
Back in the 90s in Germany, many Golf 2 diesel fueled with sunflower oil. It was still very cheap and actually worked well. However, not so ideal in winter xD
There is a van that here that runs on filtered used fish and chip cooking oil, they get it for free. In New Zealand diesel vehicles pay an independent tax based on the odometer so we are allowed to screw with the mix as much as we like.
This, and used frying fat, was often used as fuel here in Germany, but it only works with older diesel engines. A more modern engine can take damage from this.
Old diesel engines can run on anything! 🙂 I was driving my TD Jeep on vegetable oil and this year I'm driving on wasted motor oil and that's free fuel. 🙂
I've ran my van on used fry oil for over 40k km now. just filter it and pour it in... Free fuel, and there's actually no tax issue because of a loophole in the law..
We used cooking oil instead of diesel for tractors (especially soviet made) during '90s in Serbia when there were shortage of gasoline and diesel because of war. Also many farmers still use cooking oil for old tractors because it's much cheaper than diesel. And also smells nice 🙂
@@vikinglife6316 Massey Ferguson FE35 (and yugoslav version IMT 533) was struggling on cold start with vegetable oil as fuel, best way was to mix it with diesel. But with soviet made tractors (LTZ, MTZ) - there was no difference between diesel and vegetable oil as fuel. They run it on cold with no problem
how I ran my old diesel. I went to a shop that specialised on transmission flushes and I took their old oil and used it in my diesel. Yes it smoked more and power was noticable less but it was for free and every half year I ran some old brake fluid to clean the injectors. The car went and went until it was so rusty there was nothing left you could weld anything on and of course I failed inspection
People do run diesel engines on used cooking oil since ages. But it's illegal to drive it on the roads in most developed countries because it has lower tax than "proper" diesel fuel. However some oil companies recycle used cooking oil as diesel fuel.
WVO (Waste Vegetable Oil) has been a thing for a longtime. There are kits with filters and heaters for older vehicles that don’t have them. Smells like French Fries.
@@Görkem-x5h Because cooking oils come from plants, just like biodiesel, so they are carbon-neutral. Plus it makes you more independent from the system if you make your own.
A diesel engine can run on pretty much anything. You can put almost every possibly fuel into a diesel and it will run on it. However, in order for the engine to be reliable with different fuels, the fuels need to be properly filtered and have descent viscosity, otherwise your fuel filter, diesel pump and injector have a risk of clogging up, and in some cases leading to failure. (Edit: The reason for the fuel to need a certain viscosity is the fact that the fuel pump is only lubricated by the fuel i side the pump. To thin and it will soon seize up.)
There are U.S. military vehicles designed to run on multiple fuels. Gas, alcohol, diesel, and many sub grade oils. I’m sure other countries do as well.
I'm guessing the fake wd-40 is foamy because of the propellent being dissolved in it still. Its essentially carbonated. Start pulling a vacuum on it, pulling it through a fuel line, and the dissolved gas will start boiling out.
All they need to do to confirm is take that half-bottle, get it to room temperature, and shake it a little. Should outgas and foam up, but afterwards *might* actually run the engine.
The "wd"-40 is detonating in the high pressure pump because there's air mixed with it. You can put a squirt of that stuff in the pump of a BB gun and it'll detonate on the hand pump alone. Its a way to get lubrication into old BB gun pressure chambers, btw.
Adding up to 10% paraffin or kerosene to diesel was common in the UK in winter, until winter grade diesel was available, that was the max amount allowed under Tax regulations but only in winter. Eco diesel is refined used cooking oil and is commonly available, the oil is filtered and refined so growing sunflowers or rape for use as fuel is not needed as used can be used. It has an advantage as not solidifying as easily at low temperatures.
Here in Australia we have sunflower oil in an aerosol can that I like to use to cook meat. That aerosolised🌻 oil is super flammable! Whoosh 🔥!!! No need for a fuel pump when the system could be direct injected like a propane bbq. Imagine a 6 cylinder with an individual can on each of the intake runners.
Sunflower oil works fine in almost all old diesel and turbo diesel, and if you go measure the exhaust, almost no nox 😃. Downside is price and lack of detergents that clean the engine (lot of farmers use this oil in their tractors)
Of course kerosene works, it's used as an anti-gel in cold states in the US. ATF will work as long as it's conventional and not synthetic. As a general rule, a diesel will happily run when these three conditions are met: 1, it burns. 2, it lubricates. 3, it's filtered as to not plug the injectors.
@@Mp57navy kerosene is thinner than diesel and it's not good for lubrication. Thats why they were hearing a knocking sound, which i think is from the high pressure pump.
My dad's got a 300td that he ran on cooking oil for like three years. Genius. Never played a cent for it, just got it from local restaurants and put it through a coffee filter
@@maxjones2546 yea but what most people don’t realize is used oil has a ton of water in it and kills injectors and injection pumps.. fresh oil is ok but I’ll never run used oil.. injection pumps are roughly $1,200 to replace.
HAH. i would like to see you try it on a common rail new diesel engine. I doubt those will run. please people only old diesel engines can do this. it will wreck it if its a modern common rail one
It will eventually. Although vw group cars of ~2000-2005 year still could run this as long as they don`t have PD injectors. Fuel system and a pump aint issue, the issues are with injectors, because the modern PD injectors are very sensitive, the engine probably wont even start or it would shut down instantly...
@@PLKxR not necesarry.... where i live i never call ATFs by their brand names.. and they are a few.. i just go and say that i want ATF, and they give me for what i need. Maybe he dont have dexron where he live?
The WD-40 may have had aerosol in it since it came from a spray can. I'm sure it would have worked if you bought the kind that wasn't pressurized. I've successfully ran a snowmobile engine on that stuff. Diesel fuel is kerosene with paraffin wax added to lubricate everything in the system. We are working on a low-cost alternative to diesel fuel called "biodiesel" here in the USA, I wish I had a car with a Diesel engine, that was a great video!
Government doesn't want biodiesel so it has made it increasingly difficult to implement it everywhere. We are the largest producers of wheat, corn and soy. Fuel should be so readily available and cheap but its not
You need understand the chemistry process to seperate the esters out of the oils to convert them to diesel fuel so fat does not clog up your fuel lines likened unto cholesterol in your arteries
Back in the the early '70s I was night manager at a very popular gas station. We had an owner operator with a Detroit dump truck that loved our 26 cent a quart re-refined oil and gasoline that I don't remember the ratio. Said He always topped off when he was in the area. We had 3,000 gals of the oil we pumped with a gasoline pump.
man, are you for real? just a few videos from the lot are translated by bmi russian to english for this channel, and they are usually a few months to a few years out of date... smh
@@motorenbastler9289 They are called indirect injection engines in the USA. I don't know about other countries. My '94 Ford F350 has a 7.3 liter International idi engine w/ no turbo. It gets up to 60 mph/100kph eventually.
Even direct injection Diesel engines can run on various other flammable liquids. I think you're confusing direct injection with common-rail. Most Diesel engines are direct injection. Common-rail injection is a Bosch trademarked system that uses a separate high pressure pump with electronic injectors. The Bosch pumps are notoriously finicky about fuel quality, and will fail quickly if you run something that is too thin or has too little lubricity through it. But direct injection engines with a mechanical injection pump or cam-driven plunger type injectors can easily run alternative fuels.
@@the_mowron yep I have a 7.3 idi turbo too. Also the Mercedes om617 is an indirect injection diesel. Any diesel that has a pre-combustion chamber is. There are lots of them out there.
Austin Stoddard idi turbo? What year? The idi 7.3s is usually referring to the pre turbo years (not including 93/94 banks special packages) before ‘94. Wondering if you slapped a turbo on an idi and or you just have an obs 7.3 engine
You can buy wd-40 in bottles or normal cans instead of spray, then it would probably work. Also it would be interesting to see the emissions and fuel efficiency on that sunflower oil.
From what I've heard the secret sauce in WD-40 is light machine oil and Stoddard solvent. Stoddard is less flammable than kero and is low odor. It seemed like the pump didn't like whatever was in their blue can 40oz stuff. Oh and look up straight vegetable oil conversions, as long as you start on diesel to heat the oil and switch back before shutdown it works well.
Iv used cooking oil in a few of my cars over the years but only use new oil rather than filter old. No diesel at all ever and non ever had any issues. I'm in uk
@@daytonkeyes84 pretty sure the diesel engine was invented to run on it for agricultural engines and use. But pretty sure I'm not. Its just the newer ones than can't. Anything with a mechanical pump will do and will run great.
Got a buddy who runs oil from the local fast food joints in his truck .big company's wont give it away anymore lol he legit smells like fries when he drives lol
Oh yes, they are now forced to dump that oil for refining, they have to pay for it and do some blank filling at the end of the month... The fines aren`t funny as well :/
Last two years I was driving my 97 Jeep Cherokee turbo diesel on 100% vegetable oil. This year I'm driving on wasted motor oil. WMO is free fuel!!! 🙂 I have videos about it too.
Cooking oil is a quite popular choice in some countries where diesel fuel is more expansive. It works pretty well in summer, but you might have truble to use it in winter if the engine is cold. Akso, it freezes muc more easily than normal diesel fuel.
It's such a cool van with that front light assembly and all the panorama roof panels, and it keeps holding on to dear life, like a real Toyota... please don't kill it completely. It's an apocalypse-proof vehicle, might come handy one day...
The first diesel engine made was designed to run on peanut oil and you can make diesel out of recycled cooking so no surprises there. WD40, kero and Valera have solvent in the oils so not good to run a diesel long term on them. They may have a cleaning property within the fuel lines and even rings so a short run of it on an old motor may help compression??? A job for Project Farm! If you want to destroy the motor "Petrol it"!
@@darenzy CO2 and H20 are the main combustion byproducts (only ones in ideal combustion) of all simple hydrocarbons and alcohols. The most common other byproducts (at least for gasoline) are CO and NO/NO2 due to non-ideal air-fuel mixing, non-ideal air-fuel ratio, too hot/cold combustion, etc. which are why gasoline engines have catalytic converters.
well it doesnt, because to make 1ltr of sunflower oil, you probably need close to 2ltrs of diesel burned... Because all the machinery use diesel engines to take the harvest. Also a lot of effort to press it in to the oil. So I think using actual diesel fuel is a better option. There was a study showing that to make 1ltr of Biodiesel, you need to burn 2ltrs of regular diesel in the making... So all that "green dream" crap is actually making the things worse than they actually are. The greenest thing might be using a used cooking oil, so it becomes reusable.
Diesel engines are popular because you can burn many different fuels - some can be grown or produced or recycled... Sugar apparently wrecks engines - is there any way of getting sugar dissolved and working as fuel? Would you have to go for glucose instead of sucrose? Could carbohydrates work if chopped up small enough? e.g. boil up potatoes/ rice into a milkshake then thin it out?
No, because sugar (glucose included) is primarily carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. Carbon is the enemy of engines. What gums it up is the carbon being mixed in with the water (the Hydrogen and Oxygen being broken from the Carbon to become water), and sticking to surfaces.
i ran my old T4 vw 1.9TD on sunflower oil for 7yrs with no problems it was a bit hard to start in winter but i just mixed in 15%diesel and it was fine 👍 great job guys it was fun to see what a good old diesel wuld run on 😆
@@warrior8154 bothe my sisters boyfriend is a shef he got me sunflower oil wholesale in 15l tubs and when he cleaned out his friers i look that to 👍 yes i really am thet cheap 😆 the van had 197k milles when i bought it and after 7yrs use it had 476k milles on it and NEVER btoke down 💪 great van i miss it 😢
@@Sekir80 well tecnicaly its the same heere in my country but during the fuel crissis in the 70s we have whats called the emergency fuels act 👍 i just walk the line of legality without taking it to far 😆
