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Old 03-24-2022, 09:20 AM   #1
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Black Diesel - How we do it.

Hey alls... with fuel prices going up and up... I figured I'd share how we do alternative fuel. Been at it for ~10 years now. Our blend runs great on MECHANICAL diesels. Wouldn't risk it in anything "new".



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Old 03-24-2022, 09:46 AM   #2
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Nice.

I've been wanting to do a centrifuge setup for awhile now, we burn all of the waste oil/fluids in the furnace at the shop and always seem to have plenty available from walk ins and other area shops. The furnace filters it to 5 microns absolute, but I think fuging would do a better job at soot removal. Once filtering, I'd then buy an old benz or other diesel powered car and use it as a daily driver.

Can't find a centrifuge that's cheap enough imo to make the dollars work out. The used ones I find are always sold relatively quickly. I've read about guys making them out of a torque converter, I've also read one made his out of a juicer.

I'll get to something eventually, sooner the better with fuel prices going over 4 bucks a gallon.
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Old 03-24-2022, 11:24 AM   #3
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Nice.

I've been wanting to do a centrifuge setup for awhile now, we burn all of the waste oil/fluids in the furnace at the shop and always seem to have plenty available from walk ins and other area shops. The furnace filters it to 5 microns absolute, but I think fuging would do a better job at soot removal. Once filtering, I'd then buy an old benz or other diesel powered car and use it as a daily driver.

Can't find a centrifuge that's cheap enough imo to make the dollars work out. The used ones I find are always sold relatively quickly. I've read about guys making them out of a torque converter, I've also read one made his out of a juicer.

I'll get to something eventually, sooner the better with fuel prices going over 4 bucks a gallon.

There are ways to build your own single pass for relatively cheap. Can get the "Po' Boy" kit from WVO designs which comes with the drive coupler and bowl... all you have to do is build a housing and provide a motor to spin it. Its ~$250 IIRC.


I feed a small "fleet" of mechanical diesels with this blend.
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Old 03-24-2022, 02:14 PM   #4
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excellently timed sir! I just joined a few groups on this subject on facebook. Trying to get myself educated first. Seems a WMO and diesel blend will run quite happily in my old international 9.0L (DV-550)
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Old 03-24-2022, 03:18 PM   #5
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Should drink it just fine. Just get your oil CLEAN.
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Old 03-28-2022, 04:13 PM   #6
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Old 04-02-2022, 05:53 PM   #7
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I've been using it for about 20 years now with no issues filtered to 1 microns, summer blend 90/10%wmo desiel, winter drop to 50/50. Stay away from synthetic blends as they tend to plug the truck filters though they pass right through my blending filters. BTW at 90% mine was clean enough to pass the local emissions testing. I run only mechanical motors NO electronic injectors.
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