My son is making his own from deep-fryer oil. He's got my old 87 Chevy diesel Suburban. The 6.2 engine blew to pieces at 520,000 miles. I had a spare engine - and he came up from Colorado here to New York did an engine swap, and drove it back to his home. His first problem was - he couldn't pass the Colorado smoke-inspection. A diesel without a turbo at a 5000 foot-plus elevation gets pretty sick. So, he added a Banks turbo along with a tank full of certified biofuel and then passed fine. The biofuel at the pump got him interested in making his own from waste oil - and that's what he's doing now. He has a good WVO source nearby. Says he's making his fuel for 80 cents a gallon. He's using a dual-tank system. Starts on road-diesel, then when warm - switches over to a preheated waste-oil tank. He took it elk hunting in the Wyoming mountains last year in some pretty cold weather and did fine with it. So far, so good, but I warned him that the life of the Stanadyne injection pump is going to be a lot shorter. So, he's kept an eye open and now has half a dozen used pumps as back-ups - some he got for free and some for $50 each. Seems he's all set. A diesel with an inline pump is a much better setup for homemade fuel - but they are scarce on U.S. cars and trucks. Only ones I can think of are a few Mercedes, Peugots, and Dodge-Cummins trucks built before 1993. One side-note. I worked nights at a bakery during mid 60s. My German boss had a Mercedes diesel. Every day, he poured waste-oil through a cheese cloth, and then dumped it directly into his fuel tank - mixed with the regular diesel. He did fine as far as I ever saw - but this was summer only. We thought he was nuts (and maybe he was) - since diesel was only around 25-30 cents a gallon. But, other than my wife, he was the cheapest person I've ever met.
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