Experiences from the first weekend on WVO:

Saturday was rainy and in the thirties, it took at least 15 minutes to get the temp in the heated fuel filter to show above the scrolling low.. to in the 70's. But once it has run, and then sits for a while the temp goes up quite a bit. We'll now have the temp sender tee'd into the hose that comes out of the Vegtherm Mega and goes into the injectors. That way we'll know for sure when a good time to switch over is.

Once the engine is warm though, even if you let it sit for 1 or 2 hours, it can be pretty much instantly be switched over to Veg. So Sunday I insulated the hoses, the coolant hoses and fuel hoses. Then put some cardboard before the heated filter, to reduce the air blowing onto it. I think this added an immediate improvement. Also got some insulation for the tank itself

I would like to do audio tests to see how the exhaust sounds differently from Veg to Diesel, there seems to be a more gurgly sound to the Veg. It runs just as smooth and seems to have no effect on power. We'll have to check mileage as well at some point.

One more thing, adding the bumper sticker. We will have a group pic with pizza next week to acknowledge these fine folks.

These guys did an awesome job!!!

Time to pour in some used vegetable oil!

We test drove the Truck Monday, and it drove great! The first oil was vegetable oil from Costco, and it smelled great. The temp on the gauge that is inserted in the heated oil filter didn't go higher than 126 degrees, but the VegTherm is mounted after that and that now is heated up high. I'll start insulating some of it this weekend.

The first big batch was pumped over into a storage barrel, and I really felt the difference with hand pumping oil at below room temp oil, versus heating it up to around 90 degrees. When the oil is warm it just flows through the 5 micron filter at a quart every three turns, which makes it a breeze to pump out 30-40 gallons. Again, I make sure to test the oil for cracking or popping or small bubbles, as I don't know whether heating it up stirs up possible water content in the bottom. This seems to not be a problem. Here is a pic of some filtered and de-watered oil: