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I am planning on vacuum gauge, maybe an oil pressure gauge, a fuel tempature gauge, etc. Most impost for me is the vacuum gauge. My question is where do you come thru the firewall? I have looked up and down, I don't see any goumets that I can use. The vacuum gauge would be for the fuel filter. Since...

extra vign olive oil if it is good quality oil is too valueable to use for diesel replacement fuel, beside extra virgin oil oil probably isn't processed enough to meet quality we need for use in diesels. It could be used but why use a great cooking oil for fuel? It would need to be degummed, dewater...

I am off work right now and being bored, My brain started mulling over ideas. One of these was to use an auto AC reciever drier as a wvo dewaterer. I don't have one to mess around with right now and not sure exactly they work They might only work with vapor.You would need to make a drain in the drie...

here is a page with metric to all sort of different messuremet standards conversions. http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/conversions.html Since I would imagine most peopl have measuring cups ( don't use your wifes good ones go out and get some cheap ones 2 or 3 cups in size)I converted it to cups 1.76...

I need the glow plugs to stay on longer in order for sort of a cheap Elsbett kind of glow plug. Elsbett SVO kits include modified glow plug that stay on longer. I tried to get to the thread “fast glow plugs with old slow relay “ put for some reason I couldn't get there. I could get to every othe...

thanks, I will try that. What year of rabbit glow plug relay did you use if you remember? I just read that 77-80 model years had slow glow plug relays. Maybe with an afterglow feature. Was your replacement a simple swap of relays or did you have to make it work?
Thanks again
Mark

I Have what I believe is the slow relay for the glow plugs in my 1981 VW dasher Diesel. What I would like to do is increase the time to at least double or triple the time the glow plugs stay on. My glow plugs stay on for approx. 7 seconds, I would like to increace that to 14 second or 21 seconds. Ca...

always forgetting that canada is on celsius most places are expect for the states. the -454to 500 f is -270c to 260c
later Mark

I got the injector line heaters from fattywagons.com, they are no longer in business, but on another site the owner of fattywagons.com told how he made the heaters. he used Stainless steel type 316 30 inches long .030? or .031 inches dia for the 80 watt the ones I used on my vw don't remeber the exa...

I believe it is the vegetable oil that affects the rubber ,in a wvo conversion The oil will eat though seals and hoses but it does it at a slower rate I have read. My experience has been I needed to replace the orginal fuel lines at the tank once I had converted my car, but they may well have been l...

The year i have read that natural rubber stopped being used in most fuel systems was 1992 or 1993. Chances are using bio-diesel will cause leaking in your audi.
later mark

WVO stands for Waste vegetable oil ie. oil from deep fryers bio- diesel can be bought at some truck stops/ do a search for places that sell it locally. it comes in different grades depending on the amount of bio-diesel in the mixture from b20 all the way up to b100, b20 being 20% bio-diesel b100 bei...

I know that the law for transporting wvo is rather straight forward, doesn't leave much room for the little guy, I am talking about the guy who takes home 10 to 20 gallons of WVO a week. Then there is the grey area where the state says yes you are suppose to pay road tax on anything that is used as ...

Here is the url to the site where I have been keeping a log of what I have been doing. http://home.comcast.net/~floydr69/vwdashervegetableoil1.html The car is not perfect by no means, I am not totally committed to using justvegetable oil I can easily switch back to diesel it is a matter of filling t...