Vegetable Oil SVO WVO waste cooking oil as biofuel

by **Jake Palmer** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:25 am

This is not a very easy conversion, especially when it comes to fuel plumbing. I've already recieved A TON of help from Craig Reece, Ed Beggs and Ray Ackley. I really can't thank you guys enough.

I've started a blog where I'm going to document the whole process, step-by-step. Hopefully this will make it easier for the next folks who take this on.

You can check it out here:
http://jakesbenzconversion.blogspot.com/

Here's a list of the first posts:

January 14: New car is home

January 17: Started shopping

January 19: Tank time

January 20: Fuel & coolant lines... mapping out a route

by **Jake Palmer** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:30 am

January 22: Injection pump plumbing, getting a handle on things

by **Jake Palmer** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:31 am

Mocking up the veggie tank, v4.0:
http://jakesbenzconversion.blogspot.com/2008/01/tank-v40.html

Bits & Pieces starting to arrive:
http://jakesbenzconversion.blogspot.com/2008/01/bits-pi...rting-to-arrive.html

by **Jake Palmer** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:37 am

Started welding the veggie tank

by **Jake Palmer** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:38 am

February 10: Testing the tank for leaks

February 11: Plant Drive parts arrive

Februaury 12: Mapping out the fuel plumbing

by **Jake Palmer** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:39 am

February 17: Running the fuel and coolant lines

by **Jake Palmer** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:40 am

February 24: Mounting PlantDrive components

February 25:More tank work

February 26:Dashboard Space Pod

by **Jake Palmer** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:41 am

March 1: Glow plug disaster

by **Jake Palmer** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:42 am

March 1: Re-routing fuel plumbing & new O-rings

March 2: Mounting VegMax and running coolant & fuel lines

by **SunWizard** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 8:11 am

Nice job, and I like the diagram and pics. That model looks a lot harder to convert than my old 81 Mercedes. But I am sure it is quite a well made car!

by **Jake Palmer** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 8:24 am

Well, the tricky part is the need to replumb the injector pump, shutoff valve and injection pump.

Everything I've read states that the intake manifold has to come off to get at all the fuel lines.

However, I noticed something last night when I was putting the car back together. The intake manifold was on, but I still had the fuel filter housing and windshield washer bottle off. With those two items off, I still seemed to have full access to all those fuel lines.

I'm not sure the intake manifold really has to come off at all.