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[RoGrrr]

I’ve been reading the long “WMO Info” thread and have been researching waste oils for a while. Since that thread is long and old-ish, I decided to start a new thread so I wouldn’t get lost in the crowd.

I drive a 96 F250 7.3PSD 4WD (relatively new to me), dual 5 inch straight stacks, 35 inch tires, 4 inch lift, EDGE programmer, new glow plugs, stock, otherwise. 200,000 miles and I get about 14 MPG on the freeway. It has plenty of power and lots of acceleration.

Originally, I was going to run WVO but the fella who sells that reputed ‘northwest’ “BEST” kit (WAY expensive, too) is a real jerk (yes, we had some words) so I decided not to give him any of my hard earned $$$$.

This is a preliminary report on my WMO/RMO experience. Not much driving yet but I’m working on it.

Finally I decided to try RMO. My first batch came from my mechanic and had some antifreeze in it but he said he would tell his helpers not to do that any more, knowing what my requirements are. I drained the coolant from a bottom pet**** and then filtered the rest.

I set up a filter with a PF8 followed by a “rope wound” whole-house water filter (like LunaTech uses) at 5 microns. The feed was by gravity from my garage going down into my basement, a fall of about 8 feet. It was slow but at that point, I was patient. I hadn’t set up my truck yet. Since then, I got an oil pump from a Chevy S-10 that I built a bracket for and am going to drive it with a 1/2 HP motor. That should increase the flow rates considerably.

I’ve installed a 50 gallon aux tank in the bed of the truck and had to install a vent in it. The tank was placarded for aux fuel and “do not connect to a vehicle fuel system”; you know the drill. It had no vent for sucking the tank down. After I installed the ‘no spill’ vent with a protective cage around it, I filled it with 5 gallons of oil. The truck started up fine and seemingly ran well.

I’m running 100% RMO tho maybe in hindsight, I should have blended it with diesel and increased the percentage to find some sort of “sweet spot”.

When I get on the highway, it accelerates very well up to about 40 but then gets a bit anemic. Well, it gets a LOT anemic. Pushing on the pedal gives almost no acceleration. I haven’t had a chance to drive it very much yet so I can’t tell you much more. I’ll play with it more and will report here.

At this point, I have no idea why the at-speed performance is so bad. Does anyone have any ideas ?

RoGrrr