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   heyco | May 12, 2009 07:07am | #1

    Yup , done it I have an 1986 Mercedes 300SDL and run a B20 mix in it most of the time. Last summer I was in Vermont and found a place that had B100 and filled my tank it ran great . The only three problems I have found are  1. a B100 is no good at low temps. 2. it will disloge ALL the gunk that is in your tank, keep a spare pre filter around and 4. this is not a real problem but if you get any of the B100 on you it smells like cooking oil and you will keep trying to figure it out  what that smell is.  

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   intrepidcat | May 12, 2009 08:02am | #2

   Willie says go for it and..............

    

    

   don't forget to inhale.

    

    

    

    

    

    

   "If you have enough energy you can solve a lot of other problems." - Charlie Munger, Berkshire Hathaway.

   We have an abundant supply of domestic natural gas. Let's get busy solving problems.

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   CapnMac | May 12, 2009 10:02am | #4

   Willie says go for it

   Not no more.  They could never get enough used cooking oil to keep Carl's open, let alone the rest of the outlets.

   It was as good scheme, scale clobbered them, what with truck drivers needing hundreds of gallons at a time.Occupational hazard of my occupation not being around (sorry Bubba)

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   intrepidcat | May 13, 2009 11:05pm | #7

   Simple fix to that, switch to CNG.

    

    

    

    

    

    "If you have enough energy you can solve a lot of other problems." - Charlie Munger, Berkshire Hathaway.

   We have an abundant supply of domestic natural gas. Let's get busy solving problems.

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   intrepidcat | May 12, 2009 08:03am | #3

   Really, I am glad to see some interest in biodiesel.

    

   Please let us know how it works out for you.

    

    

    

    

   "If you have enough energy you can solve a lot of other problems." - Charlie Munger, Berkshire Hathaway.

   We have an abundant supply of domestic natural gas. Let's get busy solving problems.

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   davidmeiland | May 12, 2009 11:50pm | #5

   Some guys I know here are running B100. One has a VW TDI and a diesel cabin cruiser, the other has an old Isuzu diesel compact pickup, another has a newer Dodge 2500 diesel pickup. The guy with the Dodge added a Frybrid tank in the bed and some other minor hardware, the other guys are pretty much stock and running it in the factory tank. We don't get real cold here so it doesn't congeal on 'em. There is at least one large scale biodiesel refinery here in W. WA, so the supply is probably pretty easy.

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   DanH | May 12, 2009 11:58pm | #6

   Experience with the commercially-made stuff here is producing reasonably well-documented claims that it doesn't congeal. The cold weather problems experienced are due to clogged fuel filters from the gunk worked loose.
   The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. -John Kenneth Galbraith

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   cityhix | May 14, 2009 09:32am | #8

   I found that my 1979 MB 300d runs way better on bio but gets considerably worse MPG.

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   danski0224 | May 14, 2009 03:20pm | #9

   If your truck is new enough to have a warranty, then think about it some more. Check the allowed biodiesel percentages.