Busy Busy Busy,
The bus is now powered by not only diesel but also vegetable oil thanks to Geoff and Scott at www.switchover.ca . We drove the dart over to his shop in south vancouver at around noon on the 25th. The coversion proved to be very challenging and we all worked until the wee hours to get it finished(I left around 12:30am and they continued to work until 2:30am!!!) The conversion was a success and we are burning vegetable oil at least 1/2 of the time. The large V8 engine in the bus takes a long time to heat up this time of year so sometimes it takes a while to get hot enough to burn oil. It will be perfect for traveling because we will be driving long distances without cooling down the engine allowing us to use mostly vegetable oil.
Our collection method is going to be via 12v electric pump and wand. We have just ordered these recently and are awaiting their arrival. Looking forward to grease bin diving in the near future!!
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