I've run my 300Tdi Land Rover on WVO for the past couple of years with very little trouble. So I thought I'd try WMO in my 4BD1 powered Land Rover. These engines are a 3.9 DI engine, mechanical injection and no turbo.
Oil was settled for a few months (mix of engine oil and ATF) , thinned with 10% ULP then run through a centrifuge three times at a slow rate. I then only ran this mix at about 50/50 with D2. Ran fine for the first couple of hundred kilometres then power started to drop off a bit and a started to smoke. Truck is twin tanked and was only run on oil when up to temp.
So I've switched back to diesel with some anti carbon additive, changed filters and after a couple of hundred kilometres the truck is running fine again. So it would appear this engine isn't happy on WVO or the oil was not very good. Was wondering if the lack of turbo and thus may be an issue with coking things up?
Thought it would be good info to post up as I could find very little about these engines on WMO. Once I know the tanks are clean I'll try it on a WVO blend as I've got a good supply of that.
Oil was settled for a few months (mix of engine oil and ATF) , thinned with 10% ULP then run through a centrifuge three times at a slow rate. I then only ran this mix at about 50/50 with D2. Ran fine for the first couple of hundred kilometres then power started to drop off a bit and a started to smoke. Truck is twin tanked and was only run on oil when up to temp.
So I've switched back to diesel with some anti carbon additive, changed filters and after a couple of hundred kilometres the truck is running fine again. So it would appear this engine isn't happy on WVO or the oil was not very good. Was wondering if the lack of turbo and thus may be an issue with coking things up?
Thought it would be good info to post up as I could find very little about these engines on WMO. Once I know the tanks are clean I'll try it on a WVO blend as I've got a good supply of that.