GreaseDrive

It has been a month and a half since I have had my 300D with me.  I had to leave it in northern Indiana while I moved.   Some extremely adventuresome and generous friends flew out and picked it up and drove it back to upstate NY where I am.  She got to me in one piece and seems happy as ever.  The car sat unused for 5-6 weeks.   I expected some issues with the veggie system.  At least a air-leak or something but the system worked on the first flip of the switch without a single complaint.  Fantastic!

In my down time I have been working on putting together a conversion for my Dodge ram 3500 work truck but the lack of money has caused me put that on the shelf for now.  I have also been experimenting with On demand supplemental Hydrogen Injection… That is going to be a whole new page on this blog pretty soon.  Extremely exciting stuff and sooooo simple…

The time is coming up!   I will be converting my Dodge truck,  Hopefully I will get started in less than a month.  I need to use this truck and I need to quit buying pump diesel for all the obvious reasons.    Its a huge truck with a huge motor.    But the beauty of it is that it is higher off the ground,  there is more room to install everything and enough for a for a GIANT veggy tank.

I am thinking heavily about building a custom tank to allow me to use straight dumpster-fill,  Or at the very least some type of dumpster-to-tank filtration if I can’t afford a custom tank with a remove-able cover.  The 8Gal cell in my 300D is not enough to go anywhere in this truck at 15mpg.   I’d like the veggy tank to be at least 40 gallons.

I will be posting later some more detailed information.  Now I am for the time-being living in upstate New York I am going to try to tap the local experts before I do anything major.  I love to see new ideas!

I am now safely residing in a very sweet town in upstate New York.   Unfortunately I had to leave my 300D Behind in favor of driving my Ram 3500 Cummins Diesel truck to haul most of my belongings.  This truck is not yet converted to WVO.  But it needs to be…  It cost me roughly $250 to make the 650 mile trip…  $5.25 for pump diesel is insane when you get 14MPG.  Though 14mpg is fantastic for a 1 ton dually truck hauling a 16′ trailer with 6,000lbs on it.    Gotta love those cummins engines.  I hear its easy to convert but I have not really mapped out the process for this specific truck.

I do know that I need a robust cold-weather system with a extremely large WVO tank.  I am hoping at least 40-50gallons.  This could make hauling/snow plowing etc.  Much easier in the winter time.

I have a great deal of pictures to share I hope to upload them in the next few days since I am trying to slow my life down and smell the flowers.   My trip is now over,  New Jersey to the west coast and back to upstate New York,   and almost everwhere in between.  Over 8,000 miles on the open road almost entirely on dumpster-fill WVO.