Waste motor oil tailpipe emissions - Diesel Forum

sunray · 07-10-2009, 03:05 AM

Hello everyone. I've been searching these past few days for a thread where a member posted a link to an emissions test while burning motor oil for fuel. Does anyone remember this thread? I would like to see the emissions test results. I've lost count of how many threads I've read, but I still can't find it. If anyone can help, I'd appreciate it tremendously.

Oilguy · 04-20-2010, 07:24 PM

Hi sorry I dont know. But I like to ask you how new can the Ford truck be to be able to run on waste motoroil (cleaned with centrifugr ) ?

Terrh · 04-21-2010, 09:00 AM

my '99 seems to run it fine.

I bet there would be issues with the emissions system running on WMO but maybe not on newer trucks?

Someone needs to have the nads to try it out and see what really happens.

As far as emissions go, mine doesn't seem to smoke at all really, but the exhaust smells TERRIBLE. Tailpipe looks like I painted it with primer, too.

When you think about the full cycle emissions I'm sure it's better for the environment than running on any sort of petro diesel, since EMO is basically a "free" fuel and doesn't need to be drilled out of the ground, transported to a refinery, refined, transported to the gas station, etc.