vegetable oil for fuel?

Robin · Unread post by **Robin** » 18 Mar 2004, 00:49

On the dieselveg site there is a note about biodiesel that should be noted.
= Rapsmethylester = RME
Biodiesel is chemically produced and substantially more expensive than vegetable oil. Except for a few new vehicles, most are not suited for using biodiesel. The majority of diesel vehicles must first be converted, in order to guarantee they will operate on biodiesel. <font color="red">The problem is the durability of the plastic and rubber components, which come into contact with the fuel. If biodiesel is used in a system that has not been adapted, the fuel can leak from places where it frequently backs up, which weakens and dissolves the fuel system´s components. When using pure, untreated vegetable oil, these problems will not occur.</font id="red">

Unread post by **philhoward** » 18 Mar 2004, 00:52

http://www.biodieselfillingstations.co.uk/outlets.htm shows outlets; there doesn't seem to be any saving over normal pump Diesel...is this true?

oilyspanner · Unread post by **oilyspanner** » 18 Mar 2004, 01:10

The price is 79.9 per litre a few pence dearer but as an Environmental Biologist by training I like to fly the renewable flag where possible, the eventual demise of a few rubber pipes over time is a bridge I will have to cross when it happens, I was worried about seals in my old Lucas injection pump as they were of natural rubber but the bosch units on the current fleet are immune to that effect. I do buy dino diesel too.
Stewart