I am thinkin of makin my own biofuel once i get a diesel truck. How many of you guys out there make your own biofeul? What are some pros and cons of biofuel? What are some company that make a DIY kit beside Fuelmiser?

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Yeah I know a couple guys that own restraunts here and i could get it from them.

I am sitting on over 1500 gallons of WVO, I just need the time to convert some

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How do you refine/convert it?

don't buy one of the additives that you mix with the wvo, filter it, and run in your rig, its hard on the fuel pump, too thick. Buy a processor or build your own to save some cash. from my reasearch you heat it, mix it with lye/sodium hydroxide and methanol, then a rinse cycle, and run it through a filter, and run it. you can find alot of kits to buy of plans to build your own. i'm not sure of the quaility, buy e-bay has lots of bio diesel stuff.

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Hock6.0 do you make your own bio fuel?

there are more vids on youtube

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I made about 400 gals with just an additive being mixed in with the wvo and then filtering it and putting in the truck, it worked for awhile. Then the fuel pump cashed out cause the oil was too thick. I was in the process of buying the parts i need to make a processor that uses lye and methanol to make true bio diesel and my oil supply dried up (local farmer bought my oil supply out from under me). When you go through the process using the lye and methanol you remove the glycerin form the oil which in turns makes it very thin like diesel fuel and it will run through the fuel system just fine. It takes about 30 hrs to make a batch of fuel. if you can get the vwo it is worth it. I tried the other way cause it was cheaper, didn't have to buy lye/sodiumhydroxide and methanol. I learned my lesson.

i tried to get a bunch of guys around here in on makign some. there are plenty of places to get WVO. no one makes it here.

i couldn't convince any one to get in on it with me.

just a question does biodiesel give you a loss of power? my dodge doesnt like it much just wondering

they say it doesnt but i say it does.

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I also notice a power loss when running anything more than 5% bio diesel. It does burn cleaner as the more bio you run. I have ran 20% bio and noticed less smoke. have tried to talk and find others that have successfully ran it at 100% but not too many people here in vegas do stuff like that to my knowledge so i didn't go any farther into the making home brew diesel.

I don't know about power, because I really have no way of measuring it other than seat of my pants ... but, I would have to say it may but not much.

I do know that my mpg's go down about 5-10%, but I buy it for about 10% less, so it evens out. I try to burn about B15 all the time. (About 5 gallons per tank.)

My main thinking about bio-diesel is that it is made locally and all money stays in the US. No money is transferred overseas to the terrorists as with petrol-diesel.

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in the summer months I burn whatever I feel like in my cabover, I experimented with used trans fluid, used hydraulic oil, mineral oil, WVO, all filtered to 10 micron and dumped in the tank, I have processed my own bio-diesel when prices were higher and everyone that knew I was doing it wanted to buy it and honestly I did not see a difference in the smoke/mileage/pep, exc whether it was filtered WVO or proccessed and washed bio-diesel so I dont bother with making it anymore and nobody asks for fuel at a discount anymore either, atleast I have a steady supply of about 50 gallons a week year roundbut with diesel prices under $2 I doubt I will dump much WVO in my tank, I would rather save it for when we see $5 a gallon again