WVO and ring coking
Here is a question for all you WVO users. I have a greasecar/custom kit in my truck and it runs great on both diesel and WVO. I only have put maybe 5000 miles on wvo though.
While poking around on the internet, I have come across several sites that talk about the need to get WVO way hotter than our grease car type systems get it. They are saying 230 F is the minimum to get WVO to diesel viscosity and avoid piston ring coking, poor atomization, cylinder wall wear and premature engine failure. Makes sense to me, if the info on viscosity is legit. Their solution is to use injector line heaters like fattywagon.com sells.
take a look at
http://voconversionbasics.websitetoo...ost?id=1644578
and
http://biodiesel.infopop.cc/eve/foru...51/m/725107971
Thoughts?
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