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300,000 kms on VO
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 11:10 am
by caveman
Just wanted to mention that between my old 98 TDI [now owned by a good friend] ,my 1990 Transporter , and another 98 TDI i bought from an old customer , have now racked up around 300,000 kms on VO, all with 2 tank systems i installed . Absolutely zero issues from running on VO. The 98 i just picked up has 420,000 plus kms and the compression on all 4 is 400 psi. So much for wearing out cylinders from VO washing past the rings.
Re: 300,000 kms on VO
Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 7:06 pm
by 1984george
congratulations. My '03 Jetta TDI has about 12,000 miles since I started burning grease in it and so far so good.
Most vehicles do fine on vegetable oil if the oil is clean and hot. But someone will always be around to tell you that it can't be done. I wish you many more greasy kilos!
Re: 300,000 kms on VO
Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 7:52 am
by joat
3 key items for veg oil running
1 clean oil (and no water)
2 hot oil ( over 160 F )
3 start AND stop on diesel (easy cold starts and no coking the injectors)
Re: 300,000 kms on VO
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 6:37 pm
by caveman
Just an update. Opened up the pump today on the 98 AHU that i bought from an old customer i had done the conversion on which has done just over 100,000kms on VO. Pump shows no internal wear at all, and other than a small brown discoloration which wiped clean, looked like it always ran on clean diesel. No gunk which i've seen on conversions that were done improperly or with poor WVO. Engine compression with more than 430,000 kms total was 440,440,440,410
Re: 300,000 kms on VO
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2011 12:38 pm
by mtran
caveman wrote:100,000kms on VO. Pump shows no internal wear at all, and other than a small brown discoloration which wiped clean, looked like it always ran on clean diesel. No gunk which i've seen on conversions that were done improperly or with poor WVO. Engine compression with more than 430,000 kms total was 440,440,440,410
ccc... what good VO and purge time can do.