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Posted by Clif Holland on March 16, 2006, 5:47 pm
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I remember the old rabbit pickups well. Got great fuel mileage but you had
to make an appoinment to get on the freeway. Absolutely the slowest
accelerating thing I ever drove. The 65 bug I had would run off and leave
it.
Ahh the old days..
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Clif Holland KA5IPF
www.avvid.com
> Several months ago I was floundering around, looking for some
> economical means of transporting foundry coke from Alabama to Texas, so
> I can build a collection of cast iron machine tools which will be full
> sized versions of the circa 1890 miniatures which are sold by Papa Mike
> at PM Research. Well, it seems that I picked up a flamer somewhere
> along the way, so I just ducked out for awhile, and decided that I
> would not post again until I had something significant to report.
> Well, now I do, so here goes.
>
> Since I was a boy, I have understood that it is possible to run a
> diesel engine on vegetable oil. Of course, Mister Diesel himself was
> fond of of doing so, and demonstrated this process at the World's Fair
> in 1901, for the entire world to see, and to understand. Then again,
> there has been of course an increasing level of interest in the subject
> of biodiesel fuel, which can be used in an unmodified diesel vehicle,
> which is made from vegetable oil, and which can be made at the amateur
> level.
>
> Amidst all of this understanding about diesel engines, what had somehow
> completely escaped my attention, until a few months ago anyway, is that
> it is possible to use _recycled_ cooking oil as a diesel fuel. This is
> the item which led me to realize that I quite simply cannot afford
> _not_ to convert to diesel!
>
> Well, I now have a 1983 Volkswagen Rabbit diesel pickup parked in my
> driveway, and I am getting ready to lower the engine out of the engine
> well, which is an interesting little detail in itself, since I found
> put that it is not necessary to lift the engine out. Thanks to the
> internet, I can get all of the advice which I will ever need in order
> to get this little guy working, and it is quite remarkable just how
> much my new truck looks like my old one, which is a Mazda/Ranger.
>
> Well, this is certainly a genuine metalworking project, so I thought I
> might as well post about it. My other current projects are a one man
> band and a homebrew radiology system ( x rays ).
>
> Mike Mandaville
> Austin, Texas
>
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> economical means of transporting foundry coke from Alabama to Texas, so
> I can build a collection of cast iron machine tools which will be full
> sized versions of the circa 1890 miniatures which are sold by Papa Mike
> at PM Research. Well, it seems that I picked up a flamer somewhere
> along the way, so I just ducked out for awhile, and decided that I
> would not post again until I had something significant to report.
> Well, now I do, so here goes.
>
> Since I was a boy, I have understood that it is possible to run a
> diesel engine on vegetable oil. Of course, Mister Diesel himself was
> fond of of doing so, and demonstrated this process at the World's Fair
> in 1901, for the entire world to see, and to understand. Then again,
> there has been of course an increasing level of interest in the subject
> of biodiesel fuel, which can be used in an unmodified diesel vehicle,
> which is made from vegetable oil, and which can be made at the amateur
> level.
>
> Amidst all of this understanding about diesel engines, what had somehow
> completely escaped my attention, until a few months ago anyway, is that
> it is possible to use _recycled_ cooking oil as a diesel fuel. This is
> the item which led me to realize that I quite simply cannot afford
> _not_ to convert to diesel!
>
> Well, I now have a 1983 Volkswagen Rabbit diesel pickup parked in my
> driveway, and I am getting ready to lower the engine out of the engine
> well, which is an interesting little detail in itself, since I found
> put that it is not necessary to lift the engine out. Thanks to the
> internet, I can get all of the advice which I will ever need in order
> to get this little guy working, and it is quite remarkable just how
> much my new truck looks like my old one, which is a Mazda/Ranger.
>
> Well, this is certainly a genuine metalworking project, so I thought I
> might as well post about it. My other current projects are a one man
> band and a homebrew radiology system ( x rays ).
>
> Mike Mandaville
> Austin, Texas
>