Elsbett Veggy Oil conversion kits for PD engines

[devonutopia]

Hey stew can I ask what engine code urs is??

It's not a PD - It's VE engine. If the 110hp one I guess it's a AHU? ALH?

I don't dare risk running a highly tuned PD engine with even 20% veg oil. Just think in the end the cost of changing my fuel filter more often will offset the saving. With veg oil at 60p+ a litre the savings are minimal anyway.

You can't blame the oil price rise on diesel cars alone though. A poor harvest this summer has led to a shortfall in crops, and therefore a shortfall in oil. Cutting supply is going to push up prices too.

 

[allh2k]

Is there ASV or somot as well? sure mine is ASV

 

[UncleFester]

An engine run on the wrong mix of oil to diesel ....

 

[Viking]

AHU and ALH engine codes are for the 90bhp engine.

ASV is the 110bhp engine.

 

[allh2k]

Wow SICK!!

Dont think I will use oil ..... is that all the carbon??

Wounder what it tastes like.

 

[UncleFester]

That was out of a 130PD Passat - the oil filter was apparently solid and had to be forced out of its housing. You couldn't see a clean bit on the entire engine and the sump was no better. I think the customer concerned had basically run it on chip pan fat and nothing else.

 

[devonutopia]

Scary! And even more reason why I won't run mine on anything other than diesel.

 

[jonjay]

I think i will wait until the petrol lorry drivers get p!ssed off again. Shouldnt be long now Deisel V-Power my way 108.9p!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ouch.

 

[muddyboots]

Crikey - looks more like he'd filled the engine with used chippy fat, rather than the fuel tank !

 

[sssstew]

must be ASV then, i dont have my car near to check.

And agreed with muddy above. what was he doing?!

 

[Toledo Steve]

Hmm....Tried my T Reg Tolly on straight cooking from Sainsburys, just to see if it would be OK in an emergency and yes it was fine , mpg slightly down, top speed still the same, smelled like a chippy though. Previously I have run (for many hundreds of miles) on straight cooking oil (doesn,t matter what kind) a Rover 600 SDI, a Rover 218SLD (Pug motor) and a Landrover Series 3 Diesel. I also tried parrafin (greenhouse heater fuel - clear like Vodka) and various combis of all three fuels, the only observations were - starting took an extra turn or two on straight cooking oil, the Landrover was very quiet (for a 1950s design) on straight parrafin and the Pug just ate it all up with no change in either performance or MPG, by the way I don,t hang about, the 600 particularly was used to commute every weekend along the M4 and there was no difference at 110Mph. Of course we havent really had any bad winters for ages and a really cold spell may have gummed up my filters had it caught me out, but it didn,t and I got a lot of cheaper motoring and experience of other fuels should there be another fuel crisis/strike.

 

[Toledo Steve]

Just a couple of points, we all seem to forget that it is the Govt. of this country that is making fuel so expensive, we should all keep hammering that point home ,to anyone and everyone. Diesel is cheap in countries where there is a lot of alternative types of fuel because locals will and do run their Diesels on oil (groundnut, oilve etc) Albion Lorries used to have a badge on the radiator saying Albion Oil engine (they didn,t like the word Diesel and Oil Engine was a more correct description. In the past Lorry engine oil was not wasted after a service, it went into the fuel tank!!. smokin!!!!!! but it worked, the engine just saw it as FUEL and ate it all up.

 

[cheshire cat]

i get it for about 45p/litre from my local costco whichi is a members cash and carry. Get 20L canisters.

cheers Sssstew

 

[cheshire cat]

U FESTER, the source of those pics would be usefulll

 

[UncleFester]

Came from the floor of a garage i use every now and then

 

[slimbarry]

That was out of a 130PD Passat - the oil filter was apparently solid and had to be forced out of its housing. You couldn't see a clean bit on the entire engine and the sump was no better. I think the customer concerned had basically run it on chip pan fat and nothing else.

Surely if it gunked up the the places in the engine shown and the fact that the oil filter was solid means that the plonker was using it instead of engine oil and not diesel?

 

[UncleFester]

I don't know - just going on what the bloke in the garage told me - wonder if oil at too high a temperature would go like that?

 

[cheshire cat]

I don't know - just going on what the bloke in the garage told me - wonder if oil at too high a temperature would go like that?

take a look at the top of an old chip pan add some carbon and I guess that's what you get

 

[CHR15B]

An engine run on the wrong mix of oil to diesel ....

Jeezus, I'll be sticking to Shell's Diesel Extra for a good while yet...