At 5:04 AM +0000 8/1/03, olympus-digest wrote:
>Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 23:50:12 -0400
>From: Gregg Iverson <golftooter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [OM] OT Names for hydrocarbons
>
>Thanks Chris,
>
>We have two MB 300 D Turbos . I have wondered if it would be worth it to
>use used vegetable oil in them, but decided I might gain too much weight
>(on my body) if I had to go to restaurants every time I needed to fill up.
>
>What kind of set up would be needed to mix the liquids? I believe it might
>save some $ to use the mix and at least save on the highway taxes charged
>on the kerosene.
It may be too much trouble in small quantities, because of the necessity to
clean all the food out of the oil, to prevent plugging the fuel injection
system up. But, I bet Mercedes has a white paper on just how to do this. I
have read articles about people who use their vehicles off the roads, like
farmers, doing such things, and Mercedes are used all over the world. Perhaps
the information is on their website.
Joe Gwinn
>gregg
>
> >Up to 50 0regg, according to the handbook. It advises against putting
> >petrol into the diesel (although I once checked that it will run with
> >petrol and diesel mixed half and half (!)) and it mentions that a
> >flow-improver like kerosene should be mixed into the diesel before
> >"paraffin separation" takes place in the cold diesel.
> >
> >Chris
> >On Thursday, Jul 24, 2003, at 15:32 Europe/London, Gregg Iverson wrote:
> >
> >>What ratio?
> >>
> >>Gregg
> >>
> >>>My diesel Mercedes is allowed to have kerosene mixed with diesel for
> >>>the winter, apparently.
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