Biodiesel questions.

[RYAN50BMG]

Has anyone tried it? Good? Bad? I am trying to get our manager to let us try it out in our trucks. The B-20 blend is what is available. I,m looking for some first hand use info. Thanks.

[car-15]

since the introduction of this crappy ulsd, I have been reading up on biodiesel myself, until I make the switch I've been adding 1 qt. of 2stroke oil to a tankfull of fuel, in my freightliner and my personal truck. my chevy sounded like a ford or dodge before doing this. worst I could find on biodiesel is during cold weather it will clog fuel filters. so if you keep a couple of extra filters around there should be no problems. the lubricant properties of the bio. are superior to the new fuel out there imho, below are a couple of links for some good reading and info on the subject.

http://www.biodiesel.org/
http://dieselplace.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=14

[7idl]

when they first tried it out in the city of boulder, it caused problems in the fire trucks...needless to say.. they prohibited it from further use. (newer versions & YMMV)

[2ndChildhood]

What I'm interested in is running on veggie oil.

A friend of mine converted a mercedes & is very happy with how it's going. He has been buying new veggie oil in bulk from Sams club - quite a bit cheaper than biodiesel.

Of course, this has more potential problems with filter clogging than biodiesel, but to me the cost factor is very attractive