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Old 03-21-2012, 02:28 AM   #16 (permalink)
Ladogaboy
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Originally Posted by euromodder View Post
Indeed.
Modern diesels have become very picky in their fuel choice.
Matter of fact, with today's DPF systems, they can't even take high biodiesel content any more !

In Germany, it's nearly killing part of the biodiesel industry as the cars that could take biodiesel (RME in Germany) are slowly disappearing.
It's only the 5% mix in regular diesel that keeps them going - but it takes 20 cars to get to the fuel needs of just 1 car running at 100% BD !
Is there any sort of easy checklist for converting/modifying modern diesels to run on WVO/WMO?
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