diesel running.....

AAN 5pot · 16-09-10, 07:56 PM

Obviousy you wouldnt unless you own a farm but if you had a diesel could you run it on heating oil and a bit of engine oil to lube the pump every other or 1in 4 fill ups.....??

rich.r · 16-09-10, 09:23 PM

a lot depends on your diesel pump
old caddy pick ups will run on clean cooking oil and dont believe all the b*llshit you hear about heating oil
i was talking to a supplier a couple of years ago about using heatin oil in my escort van and his words were "its the same as you get at the pumps " his words not mine

its the same as red diesel the colour is only a dye and i have heard if you filter it through tea it removes the dye but i havnt tried it or used it

but of course you could be prosecuted for tax eveaion using some or any of the above

h t h rich

AAN 5pot · 16-09-10, 09:29 PM

red comes up red....... engine oil comes up blue and ive been told heating oil comes up white aswell.................

wouldnt do it all the time on the farm as the injector pump gets to dry.

hoe about R-reg bmw 525tds?? think they are mechanical rather than common rail.......??

rich.r · 16-09-10, 09:32 PM

whats with the red comes up red bit?

i believe you can run cooking oil in most stuff

i would have thought an old beamer would be ok on most things

thats not an instruction incase it all goes t*ts up

AAN 5pot · 16-09-10, 09:39 PM

the dye colours when you dip them...........

rich.r · 16-09-10, 09:42 PM

oh thats what you meant

try the tea filter then

i do believe a lot of people that run old knackers use red and take a chance if the car is seized by h r c they only loose a couple of hundred quid and whats the odds of a car being pulled at the side of the road next to nill

AAN 5pot · 16-09-10, 09:45 PM

when you sack 40,000 coppers not much!!!

16-09-10, 09:23 PM	#2
rich.r Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 1,832	a lot depends on your diesel pump old caddy pick ups will run on clean cooking oil and dont believe all the b*llshit you hear about heating oil i was talking to a supplier a couple of years ago about using heatin oil in my escort van and his words were "its the same as you get at the pumps " his words not mine its the same as red diesel the colour is only a dye and i have heard if you filter it through tea it removes the dye but i havnt tried it or used it but of course you could be prosecuted for tax eveaion using some or any of the above h t h rich

16-09-10, 09:29 PM	#3
AAN 5pot Grown up member Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 683	red comes up red....... engine oil comes up blue and ive been told heating oil comes up white aswell................. wouldnt do it all the time on the farm as the injector pump gets to dry. hoe about R-reg bmw 525tds?? think they are mechanical rather than common rail.......??

16-09-10, 09:32 PM	#4
rich.r Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 1,832	whats with the red comes up red bit? i believe you can run cooking oil in most stuff i would have thought an old beamer would be ok on most things thats not an instruction incase it all goes t*ts up

16-09-10, 09:39 PM	#5
AAN 5pot Grown up member Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 683	the dye colours when you dip them...........

16-09-10, 09:42 PM	#6
rich.r Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 1,832	oh thats what you meant try the tea filter then i do believe a lot of people that run old knackers use red and take a chance if the car is seized by h r c they only loose a couple of hundred quid and whats the odds of a car being pulled at the side of the road next to nill

16-09-10, 09:45 PM	#7
AAN 5pot Grown up member Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 683	when you sack 40,000 coppers not much!!!