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[Jedgar]

Hey all,

Filled up with 32 gallons petro diesel @ 3.59 yesterday. I've had it with price of petro.

I have a good source of clean WVO and want to start out running 50% blend petro/WVO. A few questions for those that have experience running a 7.3 Powerstroke on WVO:

1. I would like to run 50% with no or minimal mods to my totally trouble-free truck (maybe a good pre-filter). Is this possible or am I looking at problems ?

2. WVO I have access to is fairly clean (Thai restaurant) but I want to filter it well before using. From what I've read, processing should be as follows (as minimum):
- Dump into a drum thru a bag filter (to take out big chunks) then heat in same drum for a few days to drive out most of water.
- Pump and filter thru atleast 2 stages of good filters (30 micron then 5 micron), probably Standyne FM100 or equal, into a separate clean drum.
- Let settle again for atleast a few days before pumping into truck tank. Pump suction from drum needs to pull from atleast 6" off bottom of drum.
- Drain the "dregs" from bottom of both drums atleast periodically.

I need to process only about 40 gallons a month to run my truck. If all goes well, I made trade my gas boat and buy an inboard diesel (cummins 6bt) and run that on WVO ~50% blend too.

I live in a year round warm climate, central Florida, and am in contact with a charter boat captain here that has run a cummins 6bt powered boat over 3,000 hours on 50% WVO blend and has experienced zero problems.

Am I overlooking something ? I've read all about Vegistroke and it sounds great, but I just want to run 50% blend not 100%.

Please advise if you can recommend filters and pumps (by brand & part number) that you can recommend for the type of set-up I am talking about.
Possibly a schematic or description of the set-up. I can buy the parts and put this together myself as I'm fairly handy with tools.

Thanks for any advice or help you can offer.