Please don't ruin this car, it's way too good for ruining, also the engine is probably the most reliable engine you could get, also with few modifications it can hold around 600hp with truck turbo
Yea but you need stronger internals which is $$$$, so at that point you are better off putting in a different engine, like OM606, 605, M104, LS V8 etc.
It would run too. There's a reason why turbodiesels are able to runaway. But by diluting it with diesel they made it easier to start and stress engine less. Still, I wouldn't run that in a car I would like to keep driving.
@@ro-hammadali1166 Have you done it? I assumed there was diesel in the tank and they were not draining it so it would be cut with some fuel. But a diesel will run on straight oil.
The om616 and 0m617 engines in the w123 mercedes was designed to run on just about any fuel. So don't treat her bad boys she will treat you better than anything you'll ever own in your lifetime. Just keep up on the vacuum systems the hesitation when it shuts off means there's a vacuum issue. And the transmission is cooperated by vacuum and so is just about everything on the w123 including the door locks and the ignition switch
You _might_ find that mixing diesel with the oil before filtering helps keep it flowing. Waste oil contains solids that clump together and clog the filter. Mixing it with diesel before filtering can help dissolve and break up those clumps, so that the filter is only trapping bits of rust and sand and other non-cohesive particles that don't clog it so quickly. Where you might see a difference is in cylinder wear. Thus the importance of filtering. When you consider diesel is only a few bucks per gallon, you need to have access to a _lot_ of waste oil and a very efficient filtering & blending process to make it worth your time--and minimize wear on your car. (A compression check before & after 10K miles on black diesel would be interesting.)
You can also mix oil in to gas. I put my waste oil in the gas tank after oil changes since getting rid of old oil is a pain. 5 to 7 quarts to a full tank which is 36 gallons. Never had an issue, and I never filtered it. It was clean when I changed it. I change every 2500 to 3500 miles. I flush with B12 Chemtool every 4th change. I am sitting at ~1,220,000 miles at this time on my old ram. Figure you might want to do that next.
For my Diesel Mercedes, I built a filtering system that used whole house filter housings with 20- and 5-micron filters and a pump. I ran a mix of waste crankcase oil, ATF and vegetable oil. Not much pump diesel fuel at all... The engine loved it and looked like new inside- super clean!
I drove from Texas to Yuba City California in my first gen dodge on used motor oil and Diesel mix. I put a 250 gallon fuel cell in the bed Stopped up 3 fuel filters but it worked and saved me hundreds
I had a two stroke Deutz light tower/ generator that burned straight used motor oil from the shop and we ran off grid in the middle of San Francisco doing it!
This reminds me of the old Chevy K30 Military trucks with the 6.2L Detroit Diesel in them. You could burn BOTH diesel and home heating oil in the engine. Some other military trucks like the big tri-axels and deuce and a half’s have engines that can run on diesel, certain oils, and even small quantities of gasoline.
Thank you for your video! You did a great job! A few years ago I made black diesel but the cost of fuel was not near as bad as now so I did not keep doing it. Ruined a lot of clothes! I used a heater and a centerfuge. I brought the heater up to 200 degrees to get all of the water out. Then it went into the centerfuge which cleans much better than filters. Then it went into the finishing tank which was a Tractor Supply Tank with an internal pump. I did 16 gallons of used motor oil and added 2 gallons of gasoline and 2 gallons of diesel and one ounce of acetone for a cleaner for 20 gallons of mixed fuel. I mixed it for several minutes in the tank at over 100 degrees and then thru a one micron filter before putting it into the truck fuel tank. There were three of us using it for 6 months. It gave us more power and did not smoke any different that the diesel at the pump. Easy starting and none of us changed any fuel filters. Warning: Do not mix vegetable oil with mineral oil. It will cause a sticky substance and you will plug up your pump and injectors. My truck is a 1997 5.9 Cummins 12 valve diesel. The second one was a 2003 Dodge Cummins 24 valve and the third was a 1995 Ford 7.3 diesel. I do not know how well it would work on the newer diesel engines.The cost to make the fuel was 20% of the cost at the pump.
Bruh, I know nothing of this guy or this channel. His ghetto car experiments are slightly entertaining. But when he said it smells like his Civic burning oil, that's worth a sub.
If you decide to do this again it's a lot easier to get a cheap pack of like 3 or 4xl white t shirts and stretch them over your clean bucket and make a "hair band" out of vacuum line to hold it on the opening of the bucket and use a transfer pump to move the oil from the used bucket to the clean one with the filter on the opening. Just something to think on.
You can do your first stage of filtering using those green shopping bags that they are making everyone buy as they phase out the disposable shopping bags. Then you do your second stage filtration with another shopping bag but you line the inside bottom of it with paper towels. You can do about 100 gallons through each bag and the bags are around 10 cents if they cost anything at all.
My Deuce and a half has no problem with used motor oil, or diesel, gas, moonshine, kerosene, tiki torch oil, or anything else that's a flammable liquid.
I've always wondered how these work. Do they have a fuel pre-heater or do they have some sort of Mist chamber that returns excess "fuel" to the tank? I'm guessing that they use a gizmo much like the "Mixer" used in LPG engines. Ie. Hot radiator water is passed through the same space the LPG to change it from a liquid to a gas. If I were doing a WVO setup on a diesel engine, I would probably make a copper coil in a Pipe or a large Can, and pass Radiator water through the Can and the "fuel" would run through the copper coil. Or even possibly re-purpose a Water-Air Intercooler to do the job and not have to weld or solder a damn thing.
Your 300D has a leak in the vacuum system. The delayed shutoff is a product of that leak. Once you fond where, you can fix it for like a $4 rubber vac hose.
What the fuck are you on about man? Try lighting a bucket of diesel on fire, it needs to be compressed and heated to it's flashpoint before it'll even have a remote possibility of igniting. Hence why diesel engines use glow plugs and run ultra high compression ratios.
Diesels will run on anything that doesn't ignite as fast as gasoline or that isn't combustible like water. I ran my diesel VW on straight automatic transmission fluid for a while to help lubricate a rebuilt injection pump.
Doesn’t matter if it’s a vw or what, the original design of a diesel is to run off off peanut oil, but basically any oil based substance will burn in a diesel, that’s why the government uses diesel for all the ground vehicles in the military
I don't know if anyone down lower in the comments made the reference to this but you're supposed to mix the diesel and the waste oil first stir them up very well then filter out the particulates this way it allows it to go through the filter faster as it is thinners and so on
yes filtering after its mixed would speed up the filtration process, but it would also be a reasonable assumption that you would get more particulates catching in the filter. The reason being the thinner liquid would more than likely release any suspended particulate much easier.
Fuck man if that works, those damn Subaru WRX vapebros will never have to worry about low oil from leaks, just top her off with vape juice and keep on smashing into shit.
Did a similar thing in the Pilbara west Australia used old frying oil and diesel 50/ 50 to get a 1hz landcruiser to the next town . I would recommend a heat exchanger from the cars cooling system for a heavier oil fuel mix if you were intending on doing this often.
It definitely would run fine with alot more oil in there. The most common way for a diesel to runaway is turbo seals blowing out and pumping into the engine. Even with the fuel cut off they keep running
Yo keep that thing as a daily......and like you said now you have a use for old engine oil, might be a pain in the ass doing the whole process but I think it would be worth it lol
I had a periwinkle 86 300SD with two fuel tanks. One was the stock diesel and the other was in the trunk for wvo with a tank heater. I had switches in the dash to select which tank to run and I had a bunch of huge in line diesel fuel filters. You have to warm up the engine on diesel and shut it of on diesel as to not "gum up the works".
My Dad has the same car (different year though). That startup noise gave me a huge wave of nostalgia of getting driven around by my Dad when I was little. I was even driven home from the hospital after being born in that car.
Gums up the injectors, if you want to do it properly you need new injectors, a 2 micron fuel filter and 2 fuel pre-heaters. You would be better off cleaning the vegetable oil and making bio-diesel at less than a 1$ per gallon, plus your mileage would be 15 - 20% better than with regular diesel
Logan Dean I don’t see the point of this really it’s just giving the car what it would normally run on anyways it doesn’t even look like oil just black fuel running on only oil would be cool but he used like 1 gallon of oil and about the same in diesel so what’s the point ??
Andreas Bimanda With these engines you can mix a certain amount of the lowest octane available gasoline with the diesel in the wintertime to winterize it if winterized fuel isn't available and no kerosene is available to mix with it. The non USA owners manuals mention blending gasoline if there's no kerosene available but the U.S. Spec cars owners manual doesn't mention it oddly.
Logan Dean, will it run on gasoline. My isuzu dt280 4x4 diesel was filled with gasoline by accident by a garage attendant. The mix was about 50/50 estimate. The engine ran well but there was a change on how the engine sounded. Power was good. Did about 150 km before draining the tank. No damage detected.
Yeah it will run fine but newer engines with tighter tolerances on the pumps and finer injector spray patterns will have more chance of being clogged by the larger carbon particles, it should also work on pure veg oil without any diesel, a good way to run indefinitely is to have 2 tanks one for oil other for diesel, use the oil tank on the road and the diesel just before parking up,to clear any carbon deposits inside the injectors
Filtering oil is not as fast as brewing coffee. You need to set that up with like 10 funnels in each bucket and have like 5 buckets, leave that sit overnight.
I ran my 91 VW Jetta for 4 years adding 5 gallons of filter waste fluids per tank, used a frantz filter, and literally poured a 5 gallon can into my car before filling it at the station, topped it off with diesel, and the car always ran better with the good stuff. Crazy it had more power and got better mpg on waste filtered fluids. If the engine is warm it will run on straight waste filtered fluids lol. But I only do this on my mechanical injection diesel engines. Good video guys, fellow western Washington guy here.
When I was a diesel mechanic, whenever I did a fuel filter change on semi trucks I would put about a quart of ATF in the filter and then put it on and prime it with diesel. Never had any problems on start up. Maybe y’all should try and run some straight ATF through the old bird. Worst thing that’ll happen is you clean your injectors 😂
The OM617 engine is popular for alternative fuel. It will run on all sorts of things. Corn oil, frenchfry grease, used motor oil (straight), There was even a "Doctor" with a liposuction clinic that ran it on peoples fat before he fled the country.
You guys crack me up! I wish I could see some of these shenanigans in person. What happens if you try to run a car on tiki torch fuel or kerosene in the gas tank? Or some kind of cooking oil (vegetable, corn, canola, even coconut) in the engine? Or made a tire out of coat after coat of liquid rubber? Lol
it was actually a trend here in the UK to run old diesel cars on used vegetable oil from chippers and chinese takeaways they ran really well and was really cheap to run you can't do it on newer diesel engines though so it fell out of fashion
@@josephsamsor1698 used oil is burnt... thats why its black. Its not from dirt inside the engine... its from the hydrocarbons breaking down under heat and pressure.
About 15 yrs ago, car and driver magazine printed an article called Riding with Ricky. they went to Havana and rode with a cabbie in an old car converted to run on waste oil. It was (I think) an old '50's Chevy V8 with 2 throttles. 1 was for starting with gasoline, then after it started, the other was for running on drain oil.
I have an old Ford F350 IDI Diesel (Non-Turbo) and I run used motor oil/transmission fluid/gear oil/really any oil old or new with a lil diesel in the tank. Purrs like a kitten and cruises. smokes a little more especially at idle. But I have the injection pump turned up so i can make black clouds. I live in SoCal and drive this truck everywhere as a big F U to the state of cali because it doesn't have any CATS and is straight piped. I love old diesels, They literally run on anything oily...
Not surprising at all... It will run on any oil... the best is power steering fluid... Sunflower oil is also great. The older the diesel is, more kind of fuel it will take. Beauty of the diesel.
good lord no, the boiling point is faar too low ive heard stories about shampoo and something else (quite sure it was a solvent) mixed to make a brake fluid
