I can get almost anything in good volume, whats the general consensus among you all that have been burning oil in ur rigs on which waste oil makes the best fuel. WMO, hydro oil, gear oil, atf, is one better than the other. I’ve heard additives are bad synthetic is bad wmo is bad cause of carbon etc etc etc but I also hear all of it being used as it all obviously burns well, buuuuut is one better than the others?????
What waste oil makes the best fuel
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The cleanest oil will be the easiest on your injection pump and injectors. Will the red dye in the automatic trans fluid be picked up if your tanks are dipped? I don't know about that.
As this becomes more and more popular, you never know it might be a side job of the 80,000 IRS workers just hired to start dipping tanks. I am surprised they don't purposely dye on road fuel. Then if they can't pick up the on road dye they know you are running some other non-taxed fuel like WMO.
As this becomes more and more popular, you never know it might be a side job of the 80,000 IRS workers just hired to start dipping tanks. I am surprised they don't purposely dye on road fuel. Then if they can't pick up the on road dye they know you are running some other non-taxed fuel like WMO.
Mt_Man
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Thin oil I also good to think about. Atf is thin, lots of detergents, low autoignition temps. Gasoline wmo is usually thinner then truck oil. Hydraulic is usually clean and thinnish also. My order is atf, turbine oils, hydraulic, gas wmo, diesel wmo, aircraft piston wmo, last manual transmission/gears oils(usually high viscosity)
Mt_Man
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Synthetic oils haven't given me any troubles
Jesus Freak
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He's in Australia.
Bring on the IRS!
I have found hydraulic oil to be quite nice to run at a heavy mix. It's also the cleanest used oil I can get my hands on.
As for dye, it doesn't take much sooty engine oil to turn a whole tank-full black. However, I've never been dipped, and untaxed fuel here hasn't had dye in it anyway.
Lube oils are way more expensive than fuel - plus enviro fees... so imho, the taxes are more than paid already.
As for dye, it doesn't take much sooty engine oil to turn a whole tank-full black. However, I've never been dipped, and untaxed fuel here hasn't had dye in it anyway.
Lube oils are way more expensive than fuel - plus enviro fees... so imho, the taxes are more than paid already.
Ok thanks guys, dipping is no issue no one here has heard or tried this really, maybe a couple down south but none up here, so the non combustion cleaner oils are the go too then from what I’m reading. I got access to lots of different types, I initially asked to get mineral engine oil but that’s all guna be Diesel engine oil and it’s proper black. I won’t waste it I’ll burn it but I might jump on the harvester guys here n help them dispose of there hydro oil responsibly for the first time in there life
Jesus Freak
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No different than buying used tires and getting all the goodie out of them. The taxes are paid.
It’s not just the red color of off road they look for. The off road dye is a specific chemical composition along with the red color. They may look for the color, but there’s a test to detect the chemical composition. I’ve also heard it’s dosed at a level that it takes a 20 times dilution to make it undetectable. Meaning, it would take 20+ gallons of undyed diesel to make 1 gallon of red diesel undetectable.
I don’t chance it, because they do dip tanks around here, and I can buy a lot of diesel for $10,000
I don’t chance it, because they do dip tanks around here, and I can buy a lot of diesel for $10,000
Don't you guys down there pay taxes based on how many miles you drive each year? Or is that New Zealand thinking about that? They were toying with that idea here also. They have to do something if everyone starts driving electric cars and not using fuel anymore.
Patrol
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Definitely new Zealand, diesel was more expensive then petrol uptill a fue days ago and you gotta pay for ruc (road user charges) on top that at $76 per 1000 km. It's a joke, hence why if your in the know you run a switch for your odometer or rewind ya ks between wof(warrent of fitness inspections) inspection were they through your vehicle off the road for the smallest crap ever like a stone chip in your window! All in the name of "health and safty"
Very tempting to move state side
The states has like 380million people that, I’m not looking forward to ******** stuff like that happening here but there already approving kitty litter trays for furries in schools so Ukraine is looking pretty good right now
Jesus Freak
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Antarctica! Sure you'll freeze to death, but at least you'll die free. I really want to say what's on my mind but I'll just agree with the apostle John, "even so, come Lord Jesus!" Revelation 22:20
