Help 98 Dakota missfires
From : greg harbaugh
Q: theres only one real problem with the idea of free waste cooking oil.restaurants sell their waste oil to recyclers so they are unlikely to want to give it to you to make biodiesel and households dont really produce enough to be worthwhile. nerdrevenge wrote i saw on science channel last week were 2 just out of high school kids converted an old volkswagen diesel van to burn straight used cooking oil after they were told in their auto mechanic class it could not be done. they drove cross country stopping at fast food places to fill up. they only drawback was they has to run regular diesel till the engine warmed up then switched over to cooking oil. they said they got better performance with the cooking oil. theres a local company that will convert your diesel to run on cooking oil. theyre doing quite well. you can buy bio-diesel conversion kits that bring the cost of diesel down to about 70 cents a gallon. add free waste cooking oil vegetable and some common ingredients to purify it and you end up with a higher quality fuel than the petro diesel. apparently the engine smells like french fries when running. smh .
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From : john
on wed 22 jun 2005 112017 gmt transurgeon nobulltrans@mchsi.dotcom wrote how about 3% / 2% = 1.5% just like 3 / 2 = 1.5 not 150. you are truly math impaired since when does 0.03 / 0.02 = 0.015 do the math boy and stop making an ass of yourself care to try again i dont have to try again you just made my point far my forcefully than i ever could have ! thanks for playing chump ! it must really suck to be you. beekeep .
From : greg harbaugh
beekeep wrote on tue 21 jun 2005 134202 gmt tbone t-bonenospam@nc.rr.com wrote are you sure that the sending unit is not sold separately even if they did you would be better off changing the fuel pump while you have it all apart. they dont last forever. beekeep i have one 16 plus years old and still going strong and with a 172k on it too. -- posted using the http//www.autoforumz.com interface at authors request articles individually checked for conformance to usenet standards topic url http//www.autoforumz.com/dodge-help-ftopict125513.html visit topic url to contact author reg. reqd. report abuse http//www.autoforumz.com/eform.phpp=611827 .
From : john
can it be done yes. if its a 4x4 resist the temptation to put the transfer case in neutral... leave it in 2wd and the transmission in neutral. if its 2wd just put the transmission in neutral. if it were an automatic youd want to disconnect the rear driveshaft from the axle and tie it up to the frame. .
From : tbone
the only ammo you are getting is being generated in your own mind. first you say that a transmission cannot produce torque and then proceed to prove that it can lol. hey i love a good fight as much as the next guy but please for the sake of all us spectators even those of us that occasionally throw an empty beer into the ring can you guys please start trimming your posts do you know how annoying it is to scroll down through quote after quote after quote just to get to the i know you are but what am i meat of the post cmon... think about the fans a little bit will ya .
From : greg harbaugh
the mileage is far from excessive. i would look into possibly swapping out the injectors from the misfiring cylinders with ones from normal firing ones and see if the misfire follows the injectors. if it does then you know the problem is.bad injectors. -- if at first you dont succeed youre not cut out for skydiving tbone wrote what shape are the injectors in dont know that is what i told them to check when i dropped it off this time. btw mileage is 67k greg .
From : tbone
from what i have heard not all recyclers pay for the waste oil many actually charge to take it and the restaurants really have no choice but to pay since you cant just throw it in the trash. if they have a way to get rid of it for free why not. perhaps you could make a deal with them to pick it up on call or more often than there current recycler so that they dont have to store it. that alone would be worth something to many restaurants. i would suggest that before anyone wastes money on one of these kits that they do some research and find a fairly reliable source of waste oil first. that is what i understand. i do know many will take the oil for free if you deliver it to them -- if at first you dont succeed youre not cut out for skydiving theres only one real problem with the idea of free waste cooking oil.restaurants sell their waste oil to recyclers so they are unlikely to want to give it to you to make biodiesel and households dont really produce enough to be worthwhile. nerdrevenge wrote i saw on science channel last week were 2 just out of high school kids converted an old volkswagen diesel van to burn straight used cooking oil after they were told in their auto mechanic class it could not be done. they drove cross country stopping at fast food places to fill up. they only drawback was they has to run regular diesel till the engine warmed up then switched over to cooking oil. they said they got better performance with the cooking oil. theres a local company that will convert your diesel to run on cooking oil. theyre doing quite well. you can buy bio-diesel conversion kits that bring the cost of diesel down to about 70 cents a gallon. add free waste cooking oil vegetable and some common ingredients to purify it and you end up with a higher quality fuel than the petro diesel. apparently the engine smells like french fries when running. smh .