Best diesel to run veg oil without modification
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andoverben said:
I have just picked up a Citroen ZX 1.9 TD Volcane for Buttons for Mrs Andoverben to do her 70 Mile Commute in that I am going to test this theory on.
Drove it back and actually it was great fun chucking it down b roads as well just need to find a cheap source of Cooking Oil now
i ran a zx on veg oil for 7 months, i never had any problems, and it even passed the mot on itDrove it back and actually it was great fun chucking it down b roads as well just need to find a cheap source of Cooking Oil now
it helped that my mother is the cook in an old peoples home, and they gave me 40 litres of used oil each week, after filtering all the rubbish out, i would get 30 litres of usable stuff
the only draw back is driving home from work, been hungry, and your car smells of chips
Engineer1 said:
So with the Merc engines is the 2.2 safe to run on Veg oil?
No, too modern and too sensitive. Basically anything with high-pressure injection won't work. CDI, TDCI, CDTI TDDI, anything like that won't do.Basically, you need the sort of thing you would use to pump water out of a copper mine in black-and-white. But in a car.
Citroen ZX/Xantia/etc with the XUD9 engine.
However you need to check if the fuel pump is the Bosch or Lucas one - the Bosch pump can handle the higher viscocity long-term, the Lucas pump can't. The two pumps were used interchangeably so there's no way of knowing which one a car will have without looking under the bonnet.
However you need to check if the fuel pump is the Bosch or Lucas one - the Bosch pump can handle the higher viscocity long-term, the Lucas pump can't. The two pumps were used interchangeably so there's no way of knowing which one a car will have without looking under the bonnet.
bigoggy said:
andoverben said:
I have just picked up a Citroen ZX 1.9 TD Volcane for Buttons for Mrs Andoverben to do her 70 Mile Commute in that I am going to test this theory on.
Drove it back and actually it was great fun chucking it down b roads as well just need to find a cheap source of Cooking Oil now
i ran a zx on veg oil for 7 months, i never had any problems, and it even passed the mot on itDrove it back and actually it was great fun chucking it down b roads as well just need to find a cheap source of Cooking Oil now
it helped that my mother is the cook in an old peoples home, and they gave me 40 litres of used oil each week, after filtering all the rubbish out, i would get 30 litres of usable stuff
the only draw back is driving home from work, been hungry, and your car smells of chips
I'm all for the idea in principle but the fumes tend to set off my asthma, if I get too close...
bigoggy said:
the only draw back is driving home from work, been hungry, and your car smells of chips
Yep, I remember this feeling well 
I ran a Merc 300d on it and also my old Rover 200-I swear it actually went better on veg and ran much quieter. As a leftfield choice a Ford Scorpio with the VM diesel is supposed to be very good too, if you can live with the looks...
www.vegetableoildiesel.co.uk is a uselful source for inforation.
Go for it.
Brian
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