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I've seen plenty of pictures of the residue from WVO making deposits on the engine, and the slobber goofing up the valves that within 100,000 miles have to take the engine apart to clean it and possibly do a valve job.Most people that are self employed are making at least $50.00/hr. When I was driving, is making an average of $1.10/mile (back in the 1990's when fuel was down below $1.50/gal). Averaging 60mph that would put me at making $66.00/hr. Most plumbers make around $90.00/hr. What does your auto shop charge? I know our truck shop charges $110.00/hr. Believe me, if you were in business for yourself, anything less then $50.00/hr wouldn't be worth the time. As an employee, that's a different story since you don't have the risk of being in business for yourself. Good Luck, TomC
Quote from: TomC on May 27, 2011, 07:38:33 AMI've seen plenty of pictures of the residue from WVO making deposits on the engine, and the slobber goofing up the valves that within 100,000 miles have to take the engine apart to clean it and possibly do a valve job.Most people that are self employed are making at least $50.00/hr. When I was driving, is making an average of $1.10/mile (back in the 1990's when fuel was down below $1.50/gal). Averaging 60mph that would put me at making $66.00/hr. Most plumbers make around $90.00/hr. What does your auto shop charge? I know our truck shop charges $110.00/hr. Believe me, if you were in business for yourself, anything less then $50.00/hr wouldn't be worth the time. As an employee, that's a different story since you don't have the risk of being in business for yourself. Good Luck, TomCThere are just to many people burning WVO without problems for anyone to say that this isn't a viable process. It is! I have seen the pics of engines with the ex port nearly closed up with carbon and muck. Those people were using "cold" oil. The others that were damaged didn't properly settle and filter the oil. Contaminated fuel is bad regardless of whether it is BioD, WVO or DinoD.John
Wasn't the original question about biodiesel, not WVO? Most engine manufacturers say not to go over B20, but that is with current engines.I suspect the biggest problem you might have with biodiesel is filter clogging and fuel lines possibly breaking down.