Hi all,
I apologise firstly for the potentially controversial title of the thread but I thought I had better put this out there: the results of my first blending experiment.
After purchasing my HJ60 Landcruiser at 407,000kms I ran it for one tank (70L) on petro-diesel with no problems, then for one and a half tanks on B100 (no problems) and finally in the last week or so, one and a half tanks of blended (90% WVO, 10% ULP).
In the beginning of the blending experiment everything was fine... I could start up in the morning with the customary 2 or 3 cranks that I had come to expect while on petro-diesel or B100. Then in the mornings things started to get progressively worse... 4 cranks turned to 5 cranks turned to 8 cranks until the other day my battery died trying to crank. Luckily I didn't have to be anywhere quickly so I charged the battery and got it going (when it was a little warmer outside). Once its going and the engine is warmed up it will always start on the 2nd crank, but when its cold it just doesn't like the blended fuel. I would say though that even when warmed up the engine is blowing a lot more smoke than when running on B100 or petro-diesel.
In the last few days I was noticing at idle the revs were fluctuating a bit... I'm assuming this could be the fuel filter getting gummed up so am going to look at that... but at the moment it seems that blending isn't for my car even though I really wanted it to work (with only a single tank and no room for making biodiesel I was really excited about this possibility).
Anyway maybe you can suggest something I'm doing wrong (I pre-blended the WVO and ULP and then filtered the blend with a 1 micron bag before putting it in the tank)... but based on my recent experience I feel like I've had my fingers burnt enough.
Tony I could add this to your thread of vehicles running on blends, but as I only actually did about 700km I don't know if that would be appropriate.
Oh and one other question... my fuel economy was heaps worse on the blend (average 5.2km/L or 19.2L/100km) compared to petro-diesel (7.9km/L or 12.6L/100km) or B100 (7.6km/L or 13.2L/100km). Is it normal for blends or even SVO to have this reduced economy?
I apologise firstly for the potentially controversial title of the thread but I thought I had better put this out there: the results of my first blending experiment.
After purchasing my HJ60 Landcruiser at 407,000kms I ran it for one tank (70L) on petro-diesel with no problems, then for one and a half tanks on B100 (no problems) and finally in the last week or so, one and a half tanks of blended (90% WVO, 10% ULP).
In the beginning of the blending experiment everything was fine... I could start up in the morning with the customary 2 or 3 cranks that I had come to expect while on petro-diesel or B100. Then in the mornings things started to get progressively worse... 4 cranks turned to 5 cranks turned to 8 cranks until the other day my battery died trying to crank. Luckily I didn't have to be anywhere quickly so I charged the battery and got it going (when it was a little warmer outside). Once its going and the engine is warmed up it will always start on the 2nd crank, but when its cold it just doesn't like the blended fuel. I would say though that even when warmed up the engine is blowing a lot more smoke than when running on B100 or petro-diesel.
In the last few days I was noticing at idle the revs were fluctuating a bit... I'm assuming this could be the fuel filter getting gummed up so am going to look at that... but at the moment it seems that blending isn't for my car even though I really wanted it to work (with only a single tank and no room for making biodiesel I was really excited about this possibility).
Anyway maybe you can suggest something I'm doing wrong (I pre-blended the WVO and ULP and then filtered the blend with a 1 micron bag before putting it in the tank)... but based on my recent experience I feel like I've had my fingers burnt enough.
Tony I could add this to your thread of vehicles running on blends, but as I only actually did about 700km I don't know if that would be appropriate.
Oh and one other question... my fuel economy was heaps worse on the blend (average 5.2km/L or 19.2L/100km) compared to petro-diesel (7.9km/L or 12.6L/100km) or B100 (7.6km/L or 13.2L/100km). Is it normal for blends or even SVO to have this reduced economy?
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