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  1. Josh Carmack

    Picked this up monday,(the one in front)

    Good ole "Darkie" on the trailer and that's the new "Little Blue" up front. Joking, I told the kids we were gonna name it little blue, but they protested because my little mail truck is also blue and they say it has to be little blue. My kids like to name all of our cars, they get creative. The...
  2. Josh Carmack

    Dead in the water for several months...

    Little blue is dead, or practically dead. I think I cracked a ring or two one cold morning, got a little too heavy on the ether heard a loud cracking noise from preignition of the ether, lost compression severely in a matter of a few days on two to three cylinders. Crankcase lube consumption...
  3. Josh Carmack

    Tired of dirty batches and do not like a bypass system, here's my answer.

    I have been wanting a way to clean my oil a lot better than my current method. Some of you may remember me making a post about planning on building our own centrifuge. Version one has been built for about 8 months now, but is as of yet been unused. Mr. H, the guy teaching me some...
  4. Josh Carmack

    Problems answers etc.

    This game we all play is a guessing game sometimes at best, and sometimes I am clueless, WMO for fuel that is. I have had batches that ran better than diesel, I have had batches that run worse than diesel. I have batches that ran good, but got progressively worse. A lot of the times I was...
  5. Josh Carmack

    Potential petition to the board moderators?

    I had a thought, I was going to see what the others thought, and see if it's worth trying. Most of the post on this particular section of the board pertains to WMO, then WVO, and lastly biodiesel. Just doing a search of the last year, almost all the threads were about some type of waste...
  6. Josh Carmack

    Jackpot find, interesting story, long read.

    Picked up a 1000 gallon tank the other day that was full, had about 350 to 400 gallons of what we thought was gear oil due to the viscosity, and the smell. . It came from my cousin. It was all on his hands after his business partner insisted they take it out of the factory along with all the...
  7. Josh Carmack

    My current setup thats fixing to get a major overhual.

    I'm tired of making messes, got piles of dirt everywhere soaking up oil. Tired of clogged jets, and really tired of spills and splashes getting on everything. Spilled/sprayed a quart or two all over everything last night. So figured I'd post some pictures of everything before it all gets a major...
  8. Josh Carmack

    Filtering Vs fuging and some of todays troubles.

    Warning this post has small educational value, and mostly is a vent of today's frustrations. Normally I bag filter at 25 mics, mix, and run a batch for several hours through parallel fuges. I then mix in the final thinner, and run for another hour or so. That then goes through finishing...
  9. Josh Carmack

    The little 300D that could.

    I burned my first batch of WO today in the little blue Mercedes. Ran and starts like a champ, but I'll admit it is a weak "premium" mix. it's mostly transformer oil and 5 gals of WMO and 5gal Diesel for a total of about 40 gallons. Mixing up another batch tonight that'll be WMO 90. I'll run that...
  10. Josh Carmack

    Three mercedes added to the mix. Anyone with expereince running these on oil?

    New additions to my fleet of diesels, these will be my daily drivers, as well as my mail route vehicle. I was driving my F350 as a daily driver, even though it's cheap fuel, it was still burning too much, these cut it in half, and now my wife can do her daily driving on oil as well. The White...
  11. Josh Carmack

    Planning / Designing an externally powered centrifuge!

    I have made personal friends with a man that served 30 years in the national guard with my father, has been a long time family friend of some of my elder family members, and he has since befriended me for advice on WMO and is being rather generous in return. We have decided to build our own...
  12. Josh Carmack

    My stress relief post. Also a 30K mile pure WMO report

    25deg this morning, and the truck wouldn't start on almost pure diesel. After church at about 33Deg it fired after two GP cycles and a fair amount of cranking. Running on pure diesel more or less probably about 70 to 80% D2 because processing rig is down as of yesterday when I went to make...
  13. Josh Carmack

    What are your heating methods?

    I use a 4500 watt High density WH element simply dropped into the processing or mixing tank. I also have two secondary heater elements that are 1500W a pc. I'm growing tired of this method. I am considering using a heating element directly at the pump intake. Possibly two or three in series to...
  14. Josh Carmack

    International 1600 uhaul truck

    I found a 1988 International 1600 uhaul truck, anyone know much about the 1600? Will the block AND components be the same as what went into the same model year Fords? The truck is a great deal if the engine can be swapped into my f350 CCDRW. I'm afraid the high miles on my truck are telling on...
  15. Josh Carmack

    New aquisition! Anyone running a perkins 4.248 on WMO?

    I recently acquired this for 500 bucks, couldn't pass it up, anyone hae experience running one of these of WMO WVO?
  16. Josh Carmack

    Brake lights, and poor peformance.

    Been meaning to ask around, but keep forgetting. Since I bought my 1990 CCDRW F350 it's had both brake lights illuminated, the "Brake" light, and the "Rear Anti-lock" light never go off, but the "Brake" light does get a little brighter if I push the parking brake down. Sometime the...
  17. Josh Carmack

    Pinion nut torque???

    1990 F-350 CCDRW 4.10 geaars. 7.3 N/A Hey, pinion nut has backed off. I have to start 1500 mile trip in the morning. Gotta know the torque for the diffreiantial pinion nut. or the bearing preload setting etc etc etc. I need to know a safe quick fix for tightening it/ up. I'll worry about...
  18. Josh Carmack

    Need a little guidance.

    Darkie, my CC LB DRW 1990 F-350 went down today, ironically immediately after yelling out nice blinker asshole! At first I thought I had blinded my fuel filter, but turns out the injector pump was smoking, it shut off just like I had turned the key. Towed the truck home, with a little bitty...
  19. Josh Carmack

    Bit another bullet.

    Bought another 55 GPH fuge yesterday to decrease processing time, bit the bullet, I normally don't care for extra capacity unless it is a gun. With my now limited schedule, I need to process more in less time so probably will buy another in a few weeks to make it a trio of fuges, wonder how that...
  20. Josh Carmack

    New score! 6, yes 6 IBC totes!

    I asked my brother in law a long time back if he could find me some totes, he immediately said yeah. Then I thought I didn't want them, as that was before my black diesel adventures. So I asked again, and for a real reasonable price he dropped off 6 IBC totes all 275 gallons, and all but two...
  21. Josh Carmack

    Recnt score and update for those who care to read

    Well, I have my centrifuge setup on a 5 gal bucket. Used a PS pump off of a 97-f150. Gonna run it on the 5 gal bucket setup until I get the ratios and temperatures down pat then I'll upscale to 55 gal drums. So started looking around for oil, and have scored about 400 gals per year so far, and...
  22. Josh Carmack

    Could timing have burnt out my G.P.'s???

    I bought two 1990 7.3's in the same week about a month or so. I was tired of gasser problems and wanted to go the diesel route for more than one reason. I grew up on a farm, around tons of diesel engines, and then we quit farming so I spent most of my mechanic years on gassers. I know most of...
  23. Josh Carmack

    New user intending to burn WMO WVO and anything else flammable.

    Hello, My name is Josh, and look forward to making connections and sharing information on this board. I'm from West TN, an hour north of Memphis thanks in advance for the nice to meet you's and welcomes! I have been looking at the alternative fuels market for a couple of years. I have now...

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