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Old 10-21-2011, 10:51 AM
piper109 piper109 is offline
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Originally Posted by anders View Post
I personally would never run WVO in a diesel again. When I sold my 240 years ago the guy that bought it ran WVO, I sold the car with 170,xxx miles with some blow by but not a huge amount. I found it on craigslist and bought it back with 195,xxx miles on it. It was only running on 5 cylinders at that time. I pulled the engine and inspected it. Everything in the crankcase looks like it was rubber coated. It killed the bearings and clogged the rings.. Change the oil often, if you run the stuff.
That is certainly good advice. The veg that makes it down into the crankcase does some well documented nasty things and I would recommend every 3000 miles max and make sure the veg oil is good and hot before turning it on.

I know someone who filters his crankcase oils, used transmission fluid etc. to 1-5 microns (synthetic, dino, no matter) the same way as he filters his WVO and then burns it in his engine a bit at a time. That way it does double duty. Apparently no noticeable smoke.

Steve
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