Here is my list of alt fuels to try: 100% vegetable oil 50/50 diesel/waste motor oil 4:1 waste motor oil:gasoline 100% waste motor oil 100% new motor oil 100% ATF (new or used) 100% kerosene 100% Howes fuel treatment

Jimbo says "our little Honda Insight ONLY gets 71 mpg". Yes Jimbo, ONLY. LMAO 🤣🤣🤣

I collect Waste Veggie-Oil from a local restaurant in it’s original 4.6 gallon jug. I let it settle for 2 weeks, after which I drill a small hole just above the water and food level. The clear liquid drains into a 6 gallon bucket that we get from a pool and spa company for free. On top of the bucket I have a 400, 200, 100 and 75 micron polyester filters. I then pore the clean oil into a 30 gallon container and add 10% Gasoline to it. Using a small 12 volt gear pump from Seaflo, the clean oil is pumped through a 20, 5 and 1 micron polyester pleated and cleanable whole house filter into a 275 gallon IBC Tote. Using the same pump I draw out the desired amount and add more gasoline as needed according to the outside temperature. In order to use waste Veggie-Oil it must be blended with a solvent to reduce its viscosity to equal that of Diesel fuel. The colder the ambient temperature the more solvent is needed to prevent jelling of the fuel. • 10% of Gasoline is good for temperatures above 80 degrees • 15% of Gasoline is good for temperatures above 32 degrees • 20% of Gasoline is good for temperatures below 32 degrees • 30% of Gasoline is good for temperatures below 0 degrees

Back in the 80's, the State of Missouri commissioned my Dad to convert 3 vehicles to "alternate energy sources that could be produced within the State" Dad converted a state owned 84 Malibu to run on assorted mixtures of Gas/Ethanol, a 1982 Chev Luv (quite a few of those available at a discount when the S-10 came out) for diesel, and a already converted Ford Ranger for electric. Once the State was done with their testing, they offered him his choice of the vehicles- he took the Luv. Drove it for 12 years on pretty much everything except diesel.

Hiya, Jimbo. A univercity in Poland did a research few years back, unused vegtable oil with 10% up to 30% of volumetric addition of gasoline gives almost the same physio-chemical properties as a regular diesel.

Rudolph Diesel, had designed his original diesel engine to run off of peanut oil.

The highlight of my day, the next episode of Robot Cantina!

There's an awful lot of houses with tanks of #2 Fuel Oil on the way to the ocean as well. That stuff runs great in a diesel engine. Keep up the great videos.

Commenting before i watch. In my youth a friend of mine's father used to make his "own" fuel from all the restaurants used fryer oil. Usually they have to pay to get rid of it so he got it for free. He had two large oil drums, with a pipe connecting the two, and a pump and filter mounted on the pipe. 2/4 Fryer oil went in one barrel, he then added 1/4 used engine oil to it and pumped the mix through the homemade filter box into the other barrel, where he then poured in 1/4 aviation kerosene. He claimed, that it in his old Mercedes 300d (123) it made the car accelerate harder and also run smoother with less smoke. I still remember driving behind his car, and the exhaust coming from it smelling like french fries and gunsmoke. 😁

Back about 15 years ago I had an old F250 with a naturally aspirated 7.3L diesel. I was working as a mechanic, full time, and would frequently dump old motor oil, transmission fluid, vegetable oil, etc into the tank (after filtering it) since it theoretically should have worked and it was a cheap old truck that I was willing to experiment with. The result was that the truck always ran perfect. I never filled the tank with 100% "other stuff", there was a always actual diesel fuel in the tank along with whatever I was adding to it. But, it ran perfect. Never had a single problem. No unusual starting, no changes in acceleration, no issues with letting it idle for long periods of time. I did that for years and had no problems at all. It ended up being something that I did without even thinking about it, and I just saw it as a convenient way to get rid of used oil/fluids while reducing my fuel bill.

My dad use to run used engine oil his his ford 1 ton truck. He had a filter setup that took all the carbon and any moisture out. He ran it for several years. My brother even started running it in his dodge pickup.

Hey Jimbo! Love your work! Since german engineer Rudolf Diesel (1858-1913) built his first diesel engine in 1892. He experimented at first with a number of fuel sources including coal dust suspended in water however by the 1900 World's Fair in Paris, Dr Diesel had his engine running on 100 per cent peanut oil! Can you try with peanut oil to see if that realy works on todays engines? Thanks and keep up the great work!

I run a quart of ATF to every tank of diesel (approximately 16 gallons for 82 GMC and 20 gallons for 94 F350). This is because they were built pre-ultra low sulfer and the mechanical injector pump and injectors need the additional lubrication and cleaning properties of the transmission fluid. It helps with mileage but I've always been a bit concerned about the EGT. I'd love to see you test it. Keep up the great work! P.S. I hope the Gnomes are staying warm.

Here in Oregon, a lot of hippies run their old diesel, Mercedes on vegetable oil, always been curious whether it’s worthwhile taking on such a project. Thanks Jimbo for doing the investigation.

If you want to make your engine last a lot longer cycle the crankcase oil through a filter . This increases oil capacity and keeps the splash fed Berings from the nasty contaminates ln these cheap Chinese engines .a small 12v pump is all that's required. Great work as always 👍

Try rendered fat as a fuel! In a zombie apocalypse, there would be a lot of available sources of fat (pre-zombie humans?) that could be a readily available source of fuel as the vegetable oil dries up. Plus, it gives you something to have running up front of your makeshift shack/compound that will let passersby know that you're a source of fuel - you in a rocking chair in front of a fire, occasionally draining the rendered fat into a fuel tank of sorts. Plus an enormous barricade of zombies stacked up behind it.

Side quest...build a cracking furnace(is it a furnace?) to turn plastic and other things into fuel.

As far as I know, main problems with veg oil as diesel substitute are glycerin deposits and acid pH that may cause corrosion in long term. Also, they are not a great option when cold temperatures hit, bc they become very viscous. In that case, is good to start the engine with diesel and through a heat exchanger warm up the oil

You can get a pulley that is bored to fit onto a taper bush of one of a number of standard sizes. Each size of taper bush is available in a wide range of inch and metric bores to accept the shaft. You only need an Allen key to tighten the assembly, and it will run perfectly true and will not fret, not even when it is on a single cylinder four-stroke diesel engine. With the same Allen key you can also easily loosen and remove the assembly.

Ooo, experiences from my youth coming back to be useful one more time! Back in the mid 90s, I was helping a friend convert a Merc 300D over to WVO, and we went through the whole process of scavenging from Chinese food shops (arguably the cleanest source compared to western fast food fryers), filtering and modifying the WVO to run in both summer and winter midwest environments. I have a notebook of our trials and tribulations musting away in a box somewhere, but going from memory, we had to dope up the WVO with 20% methanol to get it to run in winter reliably. At today's prices for methanol, I'd probably look into something cheaper like kerosene or even mineral spirits, but I don't have data for the percentages off hand. I bet if I could dig up my alt fuel book written in the 70s that we used for inspiration, it'd probably have some reference numbers. That's a log of digging that I'll save for apocalyptic conditions another day. 😁👍

Because and effect - running from a zombie apocalypse, love how you brought that together Jimbo!

I love your videos man. I don’t know why exactly, but when Jimbo’s in the shop I gotta see what he’s doing! THANK for the entertainment!

Waste motor oil works really well in mechanically injected engines, drove one of my cars for a year on that stuff with no issues. Also ran jet a1 for a while with a tiny bit of oil mixed in to lubricate the pump. The engine ran a bit cooler and without any visible smoke whatsoever, while it smoked a bit on diesel. And yes, people actually use kerosene or jet fuel to cheat smog tests with old beat up diesel cars.

Last I checked (I run veg oil in my old Mercedes), the energy density of veg is about 10% less than diesel, so at your 50/50 mix you may notice a 5% difference in potential.

I've heard this so many times but I'm not gonna risk my engine to test this and people I actually know never really try this. Thanks for testing this now I know

Ran old Mecedes, Vokswagen and Volvo Diesels (mostly before Y2K models) without any issue on veggie oil. A bit harder to start in the winter, but once running no issues. More modern electronic/piezo injectors may behave differently, but the mechanical injectors ran ... and ran ... and ran.

This is such a feel good channel. Love watching it on my early weekends mornings to start the day with a smile!

Really love your channel, and love your format! Thank you and please continue with all your projects. 👍😃

Thank you for your hard work. I really enjoy your content.

May be complicated but you can use natural gas with a 20% diesel for lubrication. There are engines that do this already.

I just ordered one of those tachs to adapt to my budget experimental 1987 diesel suburban. Thanks Jimbo for showing that. I had no idea they made something so cheap!

Diesel/used oil gets my vote. When i worked on generators in Iraq for KBR, we had to use a version of aviation fuel for the generators, as that's what they wanted us to use (easier for everything to use as few different fuels as possible) so we added used oil to the fuel tanks on the generators to add lubricity to the fuel to make it more like diesel. Diesel has paraffin in it, AVGas doesn't, and diesels don't like it as much

If you want to experiment with diesel alternatives I would suggest actually getting a hold of some waste fry oil like you mentioned and see how difficult it is to filter it out effectively (after all you would need to find a good low tech solution to do so in the AI zombie apocalypse), I would also suggest doing the same with used motor oil, using different cutting additives like kerosene and gasoline, and even maybe find a way to measure the carbon output at the exhaust to measure the burn efficiency of the different fuels. Love your videos, always the highlight of my Sundays.

This is brilliant experimentation. I remember reading about creating diesel substitute from (free ex-fastfood) used veg oil a few years back. other than purifying the oil the only vehicle issue i can recall was seals in some vehicles not compatible. Not sure about their global policy but here in the UK McDonalds now keep their own used oil and get it converted into ecodiesel to power their delivery trucks.

You make me look forward to sundays again!!

Very interesting! I’m looking forward to the next episode. Until then I will ride my bicycle… Thanks for the Diesel show! Cheers - Martin/Germany

There's a couple of fuels I'd like to see you try: 1) diesel with a 10% mix of methanol 2) ammonia I've heard ammonia burns way cleaner since there's no carbon molecules in it. Just not sure on the purity of the mixture you're supposed to use. Great video Jimbo!! 💪🔥

As some folks have already dropped in the comments, waste oil, or black diesel (used oil with some gasoline) would be neat to see.

This channel absolutely just made my day. I was watching you guys all last night and watching videos on how to make black diesel/vegetable oil mixes. I was really thinking about doing something with a mini bike or go kart. Your the best

Thanks Jimbo! Stay warm down there!

You should do a dual fuel hybrid. Take an old diesel generator and hook it to your Prius and charge the battery pack on board. Essentially making a homebrew series hybrid vehicle.

There is a guy that was putting used motor oil and cutting it with stale gasoline to use in his 5.9L Cummins. He gained something like 30 horsepower and added to his overall range. I think it was another 2-3mpg all told.

Another Great Video, Jimbo. I really appreciate the education that you provide. Looking forward to more tests with the little one lung diesel. Thanks

Yah. New video from Jimbo. Love your work 👍

I don't know for sure, but I would imagine the fuel pump and injector make up the majority of the manufacturing cost of that engine Especially considering that they both have tolerances that can be fractions of a thousandth of an inch

Running a diesel on pure wood methanol would be interesting

Another great video, thanks for sharing 👍.

That picture was on point 👍

I keep looking for a use for one of these engines just to use all my waste oils. So I'd love to see used oil tested. Especially the new super thin synthetic stuff 0w20 0w10 etc

I've seen a guy on Tik Tok who teaches how to make something called black diesel, which consists of 4 gallons of waste oil (used motor oil) and 1 gallon regular unleaded gasoline. It would be interesting to see a test with this.

I enjoy your content, been watching since the original 212cc swap.

Back when I owned a pre-smog Cummins 2500.... I would put EVERYTHING into it's fuel tank. But, because the factory lift pump was just a bad design... I had an air-dog on it with a large external filter. (Keeps junk out of the engine) But I would pour old fryer oil into it during the summer and it smelled great !!! (I would run it through a pre filter first and don't try it in the winter) I would also give my neighbors a fuel jug so when they would do oil changes... they could give me the waste oil. and... when I did a transmission service... I pored that directly into my tank. (I smelled bad) Basically... any oily thing I could get my hands on... and was clean-ish, would get used as free fuel. FYI... I sold the truck with 268K miles on it. The real pisser of all of this was... when we switched to ULSD fuel in 2007... I would have to put 2-stroke oil in "Real" diesel fuel to make sure my injector pump was properly lubed.

I'm still unsure what a Deezull engine is....

Humble suggestion. HHO generator added to the intake with the 50/50 diesel/Veg oil blend used as fuel.

i love your content, you do whatever you feel like to do in an interesting way !

Thank you for making such informational videos

Robot cantina rocks! Great video thank you

Man, that has to be some of the cheapest fun I've seen in a long time. It's far cheaper than my computer habit, grin, so good on you!.

This was a little differnt but AWESOME stuff Jimbo! Like most of your videos, I learned something!

Love your experiments....one complaint ...i wish your episode were longer !! : )

Great stuff! Those little 196cc diesels are perfect to experiment with! Love this video Jimbo!

Used motor oil. Set up with a basic fuel filter. Something cheap and easy to keep with the apocalypse theme

This video is awesome. Do more like this!

Great video thanks for sharing

Definitely luvin ur diesel fuel experiments, especially considering I make alternative diesel fuel from veggie oil. Keep'r goin, Jimbo. Pretty cool

Diesel engines were originally ran on peanut/vegetable oil. So the results are no surprise. These kinds of tests are something I plan on doing in the future. I really enjoy watching these videos. There are an abundance of alternative fuels to test. Plus various additives and additions. Keep up the great work Jimbo. May your shop be gnome free.

Great video as always. Love the little diesel engine. A struggle to find something like that cheap here in the UK. I used to run vegetable oil pure in my old diesel landrover as it was cheaper than diesel at the time but not anymore. I have used old engine oil, power steering fluid, gearbox oil, brake fluid. Run perfectly fine in the indirect injection engine.

Waste vegetable oil (WVO) tank needs to be heated for optimum use... That's what I read on the Internet where they sale WVO kits. One needs to be concerned about the zombie apocalypse. I didn't know zombies don't like salt water. Learn something new today. Thank you for the video I like the intelligent content that keeps me thinking.

I ran WVO in my 82 mb 300cd, and a Greasecar Kit in a f250 power stroke. Over 15,000 miles on the powerstroke. 5%unleaded gas, 10% diesel fuel, 85% Used cooking oil from restaurants... 😅 The secret is to get the wvo close to the same viscosity os diesel by heating it.

Love this video! I’d love to see what this thing looks like inside!

This science fiction nerd loves the flying saucer noises that your Insight made in the opening seconds of your video.

You sir almost made me spit out my coffee with the meme images. Watt… lol.

Rudolph Diesel originally used vegetable oil because Diesel hadn't been invented, i used to burn a mix of Central heating oil and 20/50 oil, mix it like a 2 stroke mix, 1 pint ( uk pInt 568mlof Engine oil in to 5gallons( UK gallons at 4.5 litres( 1000mml) and shake up, essentially a 40:1 mix ratio.

Thanks for doing a video for us wierd prepper hyper miler guys

I drove a 1984 F250 with 6.9 diesel back and forth to college for 3 years on WMO (waste motor oil). It never missed a beat and I was driving 1000 miles a week for free. With five kids at home to feed it saved my bacon.

I know there are a lot of people who know about what you are doing in your videos. But I don’t think any of them explained it as well as you do. I’ve been a car guy Spence I got my first peddle car. Your Chanel has started a new chapter in my car guy life. Thankyou so much! I’m also a Kansas guy. Olathe.🇺🇸👍🤪🍺

Yeah, this was interesting, I’m always learning something new on this channel 🎉

Oh….1am here and was going to go to bed then you showed up…..thanks😊

Interesting video, keep up the good work,

I purchased one of them there little diesel engines for a back up generator. Thanks for the test run. Oh when diesel was 1st designed it was meant to run on vegetable oil.

You did it! I feel so appreciated 😭 look into the process of refining the veggy oil for a better biodiesel

Excellent video

When teaching diesel engine troubleshooting and diagnostic at Key Power Tech Institute in Miami, I had a 3-71 Detroit Diesel engine connected to a generator. I put five gallon fuel tanks on it with a valve under each. I put diesel fuel, vegetable oil, 30w engine oil, canola oil and Peanut oil in each tank. Using a 55 gallon water tank, a three plate load system with a winch to lower it into the water and an amp gauge to tell hp the engine can produce! The most hp was produced with peanut oil and I believe it was 73.4 hp! The second highest was diesel fuel and third engine oil!

Love your videos Jim. It would be interesting to see if you can run that engine totally off of vegetable without any diesel fuel assist. Might put a y fitting on your fuel line so all you have to do is switch from one fuel to the other. Thanks for all the great info and videos. 👍👍👍👍👍🍻🍻

Well done, good editing and simple clear explanation. At least some real data from real world and not only calculation.

Yes! nobody worth their salt has done the "alternative diesel fuels" thing with the kind of thoroughness it deserves. Im glad I can anticipate some from you.

Love that you are playing around with one of these cheap Chinese diesels. I have one that i'm building a little 400 watt generator from but need to keep it at constant RPM for frequency stability.

This channel is my zombie apocalypse tutorial. Not IF, but WHEN 😁

I'm just glad you picked one of these motors up. I put one in a mini bike!

My guess is, the best. Also, I wanted to note that I just realized that it's Sunday and that means a new Robot Cantina video, so I immediately came here to watch it. Yes, I am that nerdy.

excellent stuff as usual Jim. one of the trains that engine is soooo cheap is the tolerances are really loose. what this means is that you have a huge variety of fuels that that engine will tolerate. preheated used engine oil run through a fairly low micron filter will run just fine. also on the menu are hydraulic oil, ATF, just about any kind of oil at the right viscosity. fun fact, Rudolph Diesel designed the engine to run on veg oil, peanut in particular.

I've said it before I'll say it again: I love this channel!

We run our 5,000 watt Diesel generator on cleaned and blended Waste Veggie-Oil to charge our 28 kilowatt LiFePO4 battery bank when it is cloudy. Jimbo, I can share photos of our process if you are interested.

so i have a few old W124 Mercedes a 4cyl 200D 875,000km a 5 cyl 250D 574,000km and a 300D for spares so this old 200D is slow as hell but i loved it anyway , but here in Denmark you pay 800$ per year in roadtax alone , so when the diesel was high i just when to the supermarket and purchased their sun slower and rapseed oil on sale for nearly half the prize , it ran great on it , in the winter i had to mix 5% gasoline in the seedoil ,,i i also ran alot of filtered used motor and gear oil but for that one had to mix in atleast 25% diesel and 5% gas ,,,, please be aware that this was a mekanical fuel pump , and i always had a extra filter and a fresh battery in the trunk and had spares so i could at no cost replace injectors if needed,,newer diesel cars do not try,,,

First of all thank you for the entertainment I look forward to your videos. McDonald's uses peanut oil in there fryers I think so you might try that next.

Fun episode! Try wood tar. I’ve seen a video about getting oil from old tyres too.

I’ve been waiting for you to mess with biodiesel on the channel!

Here in Spain we have a lot of small diesel cars and this is doable with the older ones, I mean, the ones that use mechanic pumps. I have a 1994 Seat Ibiza (this is the Spanish version of the VW Polo, just a bit smaller than a Golf) that would work with 100% vegetable oil no problem (main issue would be the cold starts) as the 1.9 litre n/a diesel (producing a whooping 68 bhp) uses a mechanical pump. Well, there's another issue: tax evasion. Fuel here is really expensive (and so is vegetable oil) as it is charged with plenty of taxes. So theoretically, if you are using oil as fuel, you are not paying oil taxes, hence you may get in trouble (well, if they find out). Great stuff as always Jimbo!

During the 1980-90 Mercedes put out a bulletin,that if you could not buy winterdiesel, you could mix your own, by adding gasoline up to 50/50 mix was allowed, would be funto see how many BTU you could get from that ??????????????

Excited to see different fuel sources used. Please put in a valiant effort to filter anything that would be used. I understand that during such circumstances as a zombie apocalypse you might not have access to things like 1-2 micron filters and a pump or centrifugal filtering means but you can’t just dump it straight in.