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Default Disposal of waste cooking oil in Diesel engine

In message , Grimly
Curmudgeon writes
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Ron Lowe saying
something like:

Consequently, I now have several litres of used groundnut oil for disposal.

I was considering pouring it into the LR Discovery's diesel tank, at a
ratio of say 2 litres waste oil to 80 litres of real diesel.

Or if I was shy of that, then into the 500 Litre tank of our big
generator at work.

Comments?


Filter, filter, filter. Down to 5 microns, if possible.
No problem with running clean, dewatered waste veg oil in an older IDI
or even DI system, but I don't and wouldn't do it on a modern CR system.


I have a 2 cylinder Lister on a generator, what are your thoughts on
cooking oil in that? Not that I have a lot of it, but it would be good
to find a use for the old stuff.
How easy is it to filter down to 5 microns?
Start and warm up on diesel first or is their a %mix of derv and
cooking oil that is OK?

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Bill