Just making certain

[Corporal_Canada]

Hello, I'm just about to purchase a diesel van a 1996 Toyota hiace van.. I was told , possibly on this forums that if I want to drive on waste cooking oil without any vehicle modification, I can just use 50/50 with waste coconut oil... Make sure the vehicle has a mechanical fuel pump and indirect fuel injection , well this hiace has a 1kz engine with a low pressure indirect diesel injection, so put 20 L of diesel and 20 L of very filtered coconut oil and just drive off ? Anything else I should know ? Other than carry a spare fuel filter at all times.. thank you for all your help in advance..

Oh and boiling the cooking oil at home isn't a good idea since all cooking in my location is from LPG should I put both the diesel and waste cooking oil in another container and try to mix with some sort of mixer ???

[Corporal_Canada]

just wanted to say that google AI suggested that i add some kind of diesel lubricant fluid... looked on online shops and i found a familiar name called STP Diesel Fuel Treatment (Derfoe)... only 3$usd per bottle .. nobody ??

[tillyfromparadise]

Hi Corporal biodiesel,
I do not trust AI. I am sure it has never made or used biodiesel
You are using 20 litres of coconut oil mixed with 20 litres of diesel fuel. My guess is that the 50% coconut oil is enough lubricant. Do the directions on the STP tell you how many litres of STP are required to show a detectable increase in lubrication of 40 litres of fuel?
If I were concerned with increasing lubrication my first inclination would be to add some 2 stroke oil.

[Corporal_Canada]

Sorry I haven't ordered the STP oil thing, I'm still waiting for the 5L of diesel engine oil and oil filter and air filter to do an oil change... 2 stroke oil. Thank you for that tidbit of information, so if my tank is empty, I add 20L of diesel and 20L of filtered coconut oil and what 1 L of 2, stroke oil ? I ask to be certain, I sometimes forget that I had crdi