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This group dedicated to vehicles that run directly off vegetable oil (aka: vov, grease car, wvo, waste vegetable oil, svo, straight vegetable oil).
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Two types of conversions are a "Single Tank," and a "Dual Tank or Two (2) Tank" system. Single tank converstions are better used where the climate if warm most of the year.
A diesel vehicle with a dual tank kit is put through a conversion using a system to start on diesel. Then after it is at optimal temperature, it is switched from diesel to run directly off vegetable oil. Conversion kits can be purchased from a few companies.

Sources for vegetable oil are fast food, Asian, or middle eastern resturants that use vegetable oil to fry food. It is generally a good idea to contact target sources for waste vegetable oil and create an arrangement so you can call ahead to pick it up. It's good for them because they usually have to pay to get rid of their waste vegetable oil.

The oil is filtered to remove contaminants, and then put in a separate tank in the converted vehicle for a dual system, and into the vehicles main fuel tank in a single system.

This group is not for bio-diesel which is different and there are plenty of biodiesel discussion groups.

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I have a plastic 55 gallon drum.  I bought a sink strainer for pasta and I open it over the drum.  By the way, my drum has a removable lid.  I place my bag
Posted - Sun Nov 1, 2009 12:18 am
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Anthony,   Get a 55 gal drum, cut a few holes in the top smaller than bag filters, hang the bag filters in and pour your oil through. Dan Linscott has plans
Posted - Thu Oct 29, 2009 4:22 pm
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Just heard its out of the welders...and off to the local Diesel guy...brake vacuum leak and the shifting issue...I'll let them give the car a once over. So,
Posted - Thu Oct 29, 2009 1:56 am
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Aprox 1000 gallons of WVO for sale $1.00 a gallon
Aprox 1000 gallons of WVO for sale $1.00 a gallon.Im in lake mary 12 miles north of orlando if anyone wants to buy some oil that has been settled for 3-4
Posted - Mon Oct 26, 2009 12:54 am
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Anthony,   I have a 190D and it was shifting hard until I started replacing all of the rubber vacumn connectors. It made a big difference and went from
Posted - Sat Oct 24, 2009 3:30 am
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