Got my Freda - Now for the full house Veg Oil conversion
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 11:07 pm
Hello all, i'm a newbe here, got my Freda about a 2 weeks ago (P reg, 2wd, 2.5td, lift top, 95k miles) and it's great, love it, (never had a diesel before).
Done the cam belt & all the filter changes (does the air filter get to look like a 20 year old bit of carpet underlay real quick or did the guy I bought from tell a porky when he said it was fully serviced about a year ago ?). Anyway all seems well, no smoke and on a 250 mile round trip to Totness for an quick overnight stay (sooo much better than a tent) looks like I got a shade over 30 mpg
, not bad for 70'ish on the M5 and 20 miles on country lanes to find a campsite open in mid October, (not many 
).
I digress, this is the techie forum. Over the past week, I've bunged some veg oil in about 30 % now (Sunflower Oil from Lidl 68ppl and Corn Oil from Tesco 49ppl) and it's going great, corn oil seems a bit thick but there's no rapesead oil to be had for lover nor money around here (Bristol). Starts instantly and no smoke as far as I can tell, but I think idles speed has droped a smigin.
Anyway, I'm seriously interested in going the whole hog and fitting a twin tank 100% veg oil system. I've been looking around and the kits supplied by Dieselveg in Wolverhampton seem the most comprehensive with both electrical and coolant water heating, twin 3 way valves for supply and return to tank. The full kit including a 22l diesel startup tank (which I might not use as I've got a 'spare' 10 galon tank which I think will fit beside the existing one ) is £475 inc VAT, sound a lot but event at my modest 6-8000 miles pery year, I'd get that back in a year buying oil from the local supermarkets, let alone wholesale or filtering used oil for free from my local chippy
Has anyone experience of Dieselveg or their products ?
Has anyone run a Bongo/Freda on heated 100% veg oil ?
Cheers
Smitch
Done the cam belt & all the filter changes (does the air filter get to look like a 20 year old bit of carpet underlay real quick or did the guy I bought from tell a porky when he said it was fully serviced about a year ago ?). Anyway all seems well, no smoke and on a 250 mile round trip to Totness for an quick overnight stay (sooo much better than a tent) looks like I got a shade over 30 mpg
, not bad for 70'ish on the M5 and 20 miles on country lanes to find a campsite open in mid October, (not many ).I digress, this is the techie forum. Over the past week, I've bunged some veg oil in about 30 % now (Sunflower Oil from Lidl 68ppl and Corn Oil from Tesco 49ppl) and it's going great, corn oil seems a bit thick but there's no rapesead oil to be had for lover nor money around here (Bristol). Starts instantly and no smoke as far as I can tell, but I think idles speed has droped a smigin.
Anyway, I'm seriously interested in going the whole hog and fitting a twin tank 100% veg oil system. I've been looking around and the kits supplied by Dieselveg in Wolverhampton seem the most comprehensive with both electrical and coolant water heating, twin 3 way valves for supply and return to tank. The full kit including a 22l diesel startup tank (which I might not use as I've got a 'spare' 10 galon tank which I think will fit beside the existing one ) is £475 inc VAT, sound a lot but event at my modest 6-8000 miles pery year, I'd get that back in a year buying oil from the local supermarkets, let alone wholesale or filtering used oil for free from my local chippy
Has anyone experience of Dieselveg or their products ?
Has anyone run a Bongo/Freda on heated 100% veg oil ?
Cheers
Smitch
