OCHaven’t seen it at the pump yet in Ca. Where you at?
Have a buddy up north with a tranny shop. He uses diesel to start up, then switches tanks. Rear tank is "fitered" atf! He's been doing it for 5 years to commute to and from work in a 96psd.Paid $3.12⁹/gal. yesterday.
I wouldn't pay extra for possible problems. But it's a 7.3 PSD. It would probably run on pure waste motor oil. Or worse.
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On biodiesel I lost power with higher EGT. Filled up with #2 power was restored and normal EGT.
I don't have cats or DPF either 7.3 LoLWith the B20 I’ve noticed way better mpg and smoother / quieter. My EGTs are good either way, no cats or dpf’s getting in the way
I have a buddy that put almost 400k on his 7.3 Excursion running used ATF, he is a parts manager at a Ford dealership, he set up a pump system with a 100? micron filter, got it for free, started just fine on ATFHave a buddy up north with a tranny shop. He uses diesel to start up, then switches tanks. Rear tank is "fitered" atf! He's been doing it for 5 years to commute to and from work in a 96psd.
When I changed the fuel filter in my 7.3, I always primed it with a fresh quart of whatever atf I had on hand. Maybe it was just to cold where he is?I have a buddy that put almost 400k on his 7.3 Excursion running used ATF, he is a parts manager at a Ford dealership, he set up a pump system with a 100? micron filter, got it for free, started just fine on ATF
I don't have cats or DPF either 7.3 LoL
I'm just wondering when folks will start to realize that instead of growing food, we're growing fuel. Soon...what are we gonna eat?The Costco in Torrance, where I fill with Diesel in the motorhome, is now R99 Diesel. I paid $4.05 a gallon and all of the stations in the area are $4.69-$4.89 a gallon. I spoke with the Phillips 66 guys about R99 at a training class a couple months ago and their take was that due to the refining processes, it is essentially the same as petroleum diesel. It is refined in a similar manner as petrol and not at all like bio-diesel, even though bio and R99 both start with renewable animal and vegetable fats. Seems to me if this stuff is as legit as they say we can create a renewable diesel energy source that lowers the carbon footprint of all diesel vehicles due to the fact that the plants that grow the fuel are making oxygen and using CO2 as they grow. It also lowers our reliance on OPEC and other methods of finding dino crude.
I'm just wondering when folks will start to realize that instead of growing food, we're growing fuel. Soon...what are we gonna eat?
Yeah diesel in the OC ain’t cheap. I could drive into Long Beach/Wilmington to catch a break but then I’d risk getting robbed.@ $4.59 it's gotta be good.
It's my understanding that the first byproduct of refining gasoline is diesel fuel (in its rough form) that's why over a hundred years ago they threw it out/started selling it for lanternsThe refining process of normal diesel requires a great deal of heat I thought. I wonder what magical source of heat they use for this stuff to be made?
We can lower our reliance on OPEC by voting Biden and his useless idiots out of office. The United States has more than enough oil to meet our domestic needs, the country had reached energy independence before Biden was elected.It also lowers our reliance on OPEC and other methods of finding dino crude.
Until some guy named diesel (not "Vin") developed a tractor that was designed to run on peanut oil...then they had a use for the waste product.It's my understanding that the first byproduct of refining gasoline is diesel fuel (in its rough form) that's why over a hundred years ago they threw it out/started selling it for lanterns
Until some guy named diesel (not "Vin") developed a tractor that was designed to run on peanut oil...then they had a use for the waste product.
You have it backwards. Gasoline was a waste product from refining crude oil for its kerosene fraction. About thirty years after kerosene was first refined from crude oil in the 1860s for fueling lanterns, Rudolf Diesel discovered it was also a suitable fuel for his compression ignited internal combustion engine.It's my understanding that the first byproduct of refining gasoline is diesel fuel (in its rough form) that's why over a hundred years ago they threw it out/started selling it for lanterns
We can lower our reliance on OPEC by voting Biden and his useless idiots out of office. The United States has more than enough oil to meet our domestic needs, the country had reached energy independence before Biden was elected.
The development of the first diesel engine is kind of a neat story....Rudolf Diesel and Robert Bosch had been working on it for a while, they didn't realize it was actually running until one of them noticed the slack was on the other side of the line shaft belt they'd been attempting to start the engine with.Until some guy named diesel (not "Vin") developed a tractor that was designed to run on peanut oil...then they had a use for the waste product.
Its quite a bit cheaper in sunset beach.Yeah diesel in the OC ain’t cheap. I could drive into Long Beach/Wilmington to catch a break but then I’d risk getting robbed.
R99 and any diesel that has a B in front of the % are not the same. R99 is renewable diesel. It IS approved by Cummins for all of their Diesel engines and in fact has a higher Cetane rating and burns cleaner than petroleum based diesel.Fuck no. Not when it priced almost the same. Same goes for B20. All newer Mercedes and Ram trucks can only run up to B5
That is good to know. The B20 stuff I don't think many folks know that you can't run it in all dieselsR99 and any diesel that has a B in front of the % are not the same. R99 is renewable diesel. It IS approved by Cummins for all of their Diesel engines and in fact has a higher Cetane rating and burns cleaner than petroleum based diesel.