Josh Carmack
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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 committed to diesels after seriously playing at the wood-gas market for a while. Luckily I found this website and did a little reading before my big gas hogger bit the dust. I was at the precipice of purchase of a new ride due to to catastrophic transmission failure of my 91 F250 RCLWB 5.8L. When driving the large trucks you either have to have deep pockets or better ideas. I really wanted to go with a gasifier until a discussion with Wayne Keith led me to believe it's not quite as plug and play as it appears in the youtubes. Once I learned that Oil burning leads to a LOT less modifications from stock I decided to go Diesel. On top of that I already knew that diesels tend to run three to four times as long as gas burners.
In the last two weeks I have acquired two Ford 7.3 IDI;
89 F250 5spd RC,LWB,
It will henceforth be referred to as The Little Truck. It is showing every year of its 24 years of life. It was a work truck driven by low paid concrete employees that thought if it cranked and ran, everything must be ok. I bought it running, albeit on 6 -7 cylinders due to blown head gasket. The repairs have commenced on that engine, as I have already removed the heads, and am only waiting on the time to install new gaskets on block. The transmission feels very very sloppy, and is quite worn. Body and interior is horrible and it even came with about 20 or so pounds of dried concrete splashed all over the cab and bed. It's overall fate is unknown as It may not run any smoother with the new gaskets, and they drove it with water in the crankcase from the leaking gasket for over a year. The oil was the consistency of grease due to emulsification everywhere in the engine.
90 F350 4 door long bed.
It will be henceforth referred to as The Big Truck.The big truck I am the proud third owner of with the previous two owners being brothers and both mechanics. It shows very very little of it's 23 years of age, and the ZF5 thats in it is 10 years younger than the truck. Off the dealer's lot the big truck was an auto. The owners knowing that the A4OD was junk from the start converted the truck to 5Spd after the A4OD experienced it's first major failure using all new dealer parts including the new transmission. It was babied, and saw very little hard work, it was mostly driven around saying "Hey look at me I'm a big diesel work truck and can work really hard." without actually ever being made to work really hard. Body is in excellent shape and paint is dull but good. Interior was great except for the dog smell. If i can successfully run WMO it will be my daily driver unless the little truck turns out to run well after repairs.
With the introductions out of the way, I'll commence the purpose of my first post on this board. I am interested in hearing result of people running WMO and WVO without a centrifuge. I intend to purchase one, but until I recover from current purchases I can't. Also the sooner I start burning WVO/WMO the sooner I can purchase the fuge. To get started on WMO/WVO what would you folks suggest I setup as a start without a fuge to help me start saving for said fuge. I'm very mechanically inclined, and can typically build or come up with stuff most people would never dream of, but COST is an obstacle. I'm paying a mortgage, feeding four little girls, paying my wife's car payment, and sending her to school all on less than 30,000 a year.
I have a 275Gal tote, 4 55Gal drums, a 300 gal old style water filter for folks using well water from less than desired aquifers, and two 100Gal steel pressure tanks at my disposal to build my processing/recovery stations with. I intend to use the 100 gal horizontal tank as a sucker setup using engine vacuum to charge the tank. The tank and two drums are already mounted on a little trailer I custom built. I will use the remaining tanks for processing. I had planned to coarse filter using several layers of old pants shirts etc and settle in the 275 gal tote, draw from a tube mounted 4 inches Above the bottom, and use the bottom valve to drain trash from. I will then sock filter into first 55 gal, and then from there run through series through several engine oil filters. From there filter into the last 100 gal pressure tank to fill said vehicle from. Any glaring omissions? Also anyone have bad luck running straight oil? Is it absolutely required to heat oil at engine? I plan to start and shutdown on Diesel.
In the long run I plan on using 50 gallon bed tanks to run both truck from leaving the factory tanks for known good fuel. But will currently use one factory tank for oil.
I have been looking at the alternative fuels market for a couple of years. I have now committed to diesels after seriously playing at the wood-gas market for a while. Luckily I found this website and did a little reading before my big gas hogger bit the dust. I was at the precipice of purchase of a new ride due to to catastrophic transmission failure of my 91 F250 RCLWB 5.8L. When driving the large trucks you either have to have deep pockets or better ideas. I really wanted to go with a gasifier until a discussion with Wayne Keith led me to believe it's not quite as plug and play as it appears in the youtubes. Once I learned that Oil burning leads to a LOT less modifications from stock I decided to go Diesel. On top of that I already knew that diesels tend to run three to four times as long as gas burners.
In the last two weeks I have acquired two Ford 7.3 IDI;
89 F250 5spd RC,LWB,
It will henceforth be referred to as The Little Truck. It is showing every year of its 24 years of life. It was a work truck driven by low paid concrete employees that thought if it cranked and ran, everything must be ok. I bought it running, albeit on 6 -7 cylinders due to blown head gasket. The repairs have commenced on that engine, as I have already removed the heads, and am only waiting on the time to install new gaskets on block. The transmission feels very very sloppy, and is quite worn. Body and interior is horrible and it even came with about 20 or so pounds of dried concrete splashed all over the cab and bed. It's overall fate is unknown as It may not run any smoother with the new gaskets, and they drove it with water in the crankcase from the leaking gasket for over a year. The oil was the consistency of grease due to emulsification everywhere in the engine.
90 F350 4 door long bed.
It will be henceforth referred to as The Big Truck.The big truck I am the proud third owner of with the previous two owners being brothers and both mechanics. It shows very very little of it's 23 years of age, and the ZF5 thats in it is 10 years younger than the truck. Off the dealer's lot the big truck was an auto. The owners knowing that the A4OD was junk from the start converted the truck to 5Spd after the A4OD experienced it's first major failure using all new dealer parts including the new transmission. It was babied, and saw very little hard work, it was mostly driven around saying "Hey look at me I'm a big diesel work truck and can work really hard." without actually ever being made to work really hard. Body is in excellent shape and paint is dull but good. Interior was great except for the dog smell. If i can successfully run WMO it will be my daily driver unless the little truck turns out to run well after repairs.
With the introductions out of the way, I'll commence the purpose of my first post on this board. I am interested in hearing result of people running WMO and WVO without a centrifuge. I intend to purchase one, but until I recover from current purchases I can't. Also the sooner I start burning WVO/WMO the sooner I can purchase the fuge. To get started on WMO/WVO what would you folks suggest I setup as a start without a fuge to help me start saving for said fuge. I'm very mechanically inclined, and can typically build or come up with stuff most people would never dream of, but COST is an obstacle. I'm paying a mortgage, feeding four little girls, paying my wife's car payment, and sending her to school all on less than 30,000 a year.
I have a 275Gal tote, 4 55Gal drums, a 300 gal old style water filter for folks using well water from less than desired aquifers, and two 100Gal steel pressure tanks at my disposal to build my processing/recovery stations with. I intend to use the 100 gal horizontal tank as a sucker setup using engine vacuum to charge the tank. The tank and two drums are already mounted on a little trailer I custom built. I will use the remaining tanks for processing. I had planned to coarse filter using several layers of old pants shirts etc and settle in the 275 gal tote, draw from a tube mounted 4 inches Above the bottom, and use the bottom valve to drain trash from. I will then sock filter into first 55 gal, and then from there run through series through several engine oil filters. From there filter into the last 100 gal pressure tank to fill said vehicle from. Any glaring omissions? Also anyone have bad luck running straight oil? Is it absolutely required to heat oil at engine? I plan to start and shutdown on Diesel.
In the long run I plan on using 50 gallon bed tanks to run both truck from leaving the factory tanks for known good fuel. But will currently use one factory tank for oil.
