Cooking Oil

[Dave King]

has anyone looked into running their 3.0 on cooking oil? It is something we are considering . Many thanks. Dave

[tashtego]

There are many threads on here on the topic, take your time to do a proper search of the forum. There are many success stories of running the Kz te on cooking oil.

[Sclerotic Hen]

Interested to hear your experiences if you go ahead.
I think the law stands that if you use less than 2500 litres a year of veg oil you don't have to contact the tax people (thats about 13000 miles a year at 25 miles to the gallon) But you might want to see if the government has changed this rule.
I was pipe dreaming about the idea of a collective of users getting together and buying straight veg oil from the field/farmer (rape seed oil). Based on average yields of rape seed oil a hectare of land could get you 2000 litres of oil a year. I'm yet to find a farmer who wants to talk about production cost however.

[Diezel Weazel]

This thread maybe helpful https://hiluxsurf.co.uk/forum/hilux-...ur-experiences

18+ Years of Surfs, 7 years on Madcambell took over the reins of the LN130 n 10 years on me KZN 130 Spotless it wasn't but Faultless to a "T" it was, expired in March 2018...
My other replacement KZN 130 Truck is now also faultless to a "T" :-) but SOLD... Moving up to a HDJ 80 Landcruiser ..

[Dave King]

Many thanks for the responses. New to the forum so will spend some time having a good look at threads etc. Will certainly share all our experiences of looking at this. We are a community environmental group in Cardiff; Cardiff Rivers Group so very keen to make this work.

[Diezel Weazel]

F.Y.I ...
Don't be fooled by those that will want to sell you a Con version kit to run on SVO /WVO there's no need for it n Be aware of Dodgy Bi-fuel... if that's ya route. Happy Surfing n Good Luck

18+ Years of Surfs, 10 years on me KZN 130 Spotless it wasn't but Faultless to a "T" it was, expired in March 2018...
My replacement KZN 130 Truck is now also faultless to a "T" :-) but now SOLD...
Moving up to a HDJ 80 Landcruiser, running on Veg of course ....

[Dave King]

Thanks to everyone that responded to my original query about running our Surf on cooking oil. We talked to a couple of experienced mechanics as well and the general consensus was to just go for it. We started off with a 50/50 mix of diesel and vegetable oil but now on 100% vegetable oil. We use Tesco’s UK rapeseed oil as cheapest we could find (was 70p litre but recently increased to £1) and we think environmentally sound. Plan is to start filtering our own used oil in coming months. Will probably go back to a 50/50 mix for the winter. No modifications at all - we just poured it in! No loss of power or performance. We do a lot of towing and is working fine. Dave