It’s been a long time since I… Rock and Rolled?
Saturday, August 16th, 2008I’m new to this whole “blog” thing and I must admit that I’m not too great at remembering to actually post on it. I’ll make this quick as things have gotten busy.
We did end up buying the 99 F-250. The smoke stacks are long gone, sold on Craigslist. I put ended up putting a 4 inch turbo back exhaust on it. Oh, and about the real reason for buying the truck. I did perform a WVO conversion on the truck. I ended up going with the kit from Greasecar. The install instructions were ok, but I had to stop to do a little thinging several times. I ended up doing the install after work on a Wednesday through Friday, then all day Saturday. I estimate that I spent about 20 hours performing the install, but if I had to do it again it would probably take only 10 hours.
After all of the preparation we set out on our trip to the Grand Canyon in our veggie-mobile. I must admit that the ride was a little rough where the pavement was bumpy. However, we drove 3,800 miles on 20 gallons of diesel fuel (and 200+ gallons of vegetable oil). We saved a lot of money by using WVO. My rough estimate is that we would have spent $650 taking the Honda or $1100 taking the Grand Cherokee.
I know you are probably wondering how we got WVO along the way… We didn’t. We bought a 300 gallon container before we left and filled it 2/3 up before we left. My friends brother-in-law agreed to sell us an insane amount of veggie oil for $.30 / gallon.
Over two months later we have already logged nearly 8000 miles and are well on our way to recooping our investment. The way I see it, after we’ve logged 40k miles we will have paid for the truck, conversion kit, new tires, and the cost to have the A/C fixed.
OK, time has run out. I’ll be back soon.