BX and Biodiesel

[eno]

Is anybody here using biodiesel, if so what ratio or 100% bio. thanks.

 

[Scrounger]

I bought it and it seems to work fine, but I'm not sure what the ratio was. The guy is making it out of cooking oil with added chemical and methenol. So far is seems just like regular diesel to me. I wish I could buy the setup and make my own for a home furnance and car.

 

[rdsaustintx]

Small thread about making biodiesel in the fuel discussion area: Making BioDiesel

And another, slightly more contentious thread on its use: BioDiesel

I'm OK with dino (all that's available anyway) but got to admit it would be very cool to have a tractor that smells like donuts /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Russell in Texas

 

[tarbaby]

Eno, you can use biodiesel in your tractor at a ratio of 20/80 20 being petroleum and 80 being vegtable, soy or corn oil, at this mix your engin will run fine but, after a few tank fulls you should change your fuel filter{s} the sludge from petroleum #2 oil will clog the filters, biodiesel will clean out the sludge and you will think that the bio isn't any good, instead it's cleaning the sludge out, do not use any bio over 80% at the pumps bio is called B20 fuel,after 80% deterioration of hose's and other rubber parts will harm the engin, so, all in all bio {B20} is good but cost more at the pump. paul

 

[radair]

correction - B20 is 20% bio, 80% diesel.

 

[Schultz]

I've been running bio in it since I got the BX last spring. Low sulphur #2 B99.9% in the summer (with a blend you get $.01/% off/gal for the federal subsidy, so B99 is less $ than B20 and regular diesel). In the winter I'm running treated low sulphur #2 B20 from my home fuel oil tank. Runs fine on either way. Less smell at start up in the summer is the only difference I've noticed, but that could be mostly from the temperature difference.

I haven't had to service the fuel filters on the tractor or the furnace. I really don't expect to on the tractor, but this is the first year on the furnace with Bio. I keep expecting the thing to stop any day since it had regular high sulphur #2 for the last 24 years. So far it's burned 100 gallons, I wonder if It will make it through the winter?

 

[theboman]

Why would you want to save a few dollars each in and chance voiding your warranty?
Seems somewhere Kubota advises against using biodiesel.

 

[Schultz]

I'm not worried about voiding a warranty using BIO. I'm 99.9% confident that these fuels won't do anything to a diesel engine. My motivations for using them is to be less dependant on a Dino source and more dependant on a renewable source, and use a much cleaner burning source than standard petro based fuels.

Tim

 

[theboman]

Kubota had a statement somewhere about things in the biodiesel breaking down parts. I can't remember where I read that, and even searched the Kubota (hard to use) site for an hour and found no information.

 

[kubotaman68]

I was at a conference last feb and there was a discussion by some organic farmers and they also were told by a kubota rep at a trade show that due to the caustic natures of some bio diesels that if a failure occurred and it had bio in it it would not be covered by warranty But I also have no actual documentation of that fact