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Crusader

Crusader

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Knotty said:
Just make sure they are insured and bonded.  think.gif
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Exactly. My buddy in Corpus Christy sold a 22" Outrage Boston Whaler to a fella in Connecticut in January...the boat left Corpus and never showed up to Connecticut......they're still looking for it however I have a hunch that the boat is in the Gulf of Mexico being used to catch fish.....just a hunch.
 
spd500

spd500

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I had a flatty brought down from Utah a few years ago , I used the uship site and got  lots of bids from people . I was not in too big of a hurry , the guy I bought the boat from was willing to store it for awhile . It took about a week and a half before I got the bid I was looking for . The guy that hauled it down was hauling a boat from Austin to Salt Lake and  coming home with an empty trailer . I don't remember how much I paid him  , but it was a really good deal . The guy was 100% professional and had insurance and all that stuff , he was driving a 1 ton with a gooseneck and just put the flatty and trailer ontop of his trailer . He said he wouldn't haul anyone elses trailer across the country unless it was ontop of his trailer . Too many problems with bearings and tires .
 
spd500

spd500

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Last Mohican said:
ChryslerJet said:
spd500 said:
If you want to run waste oil you need one of the old 12 valve engines . You can get a nice later model 24 valve truck and run homemade biodiesel for around 65 cents a gallon .  :smile30:
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Yup thats what I was thinking either way its still cheaper than buying gas.  I can get the big plastic tanks in the wire cage for a hundred bucks or so for storage.  Plan is to build a custom toolbox/tank with builtin transfer pump and filtration system.  pump the waste oil out of the chinese restaurants waste tank run it through the filtration system and drained into the 100 gallon tank which is below the toolbox.  Basically it will be 3/8ths tool box, 3/8ths storage tank and 1/4 pump and filter system.  The conversion system I am planning on using starts up, warms up and shuts down on the regular diesel and has a warming coil setup using the coolant to heat up the waste oil to temp.  I planned on using electric heaters as well.  All said and done will run about 2k to ad onto the truck and will save a ton on gas costs.
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You better research your source for WVO.  That is the hard part.  Most restaurants have a contract with someone to haul off the oil.  It is an all or non proposition with them.  You can't be picky.  You have to take the good oil and the sour oil.  You can't run the sour oil in your vehicle.  It is not as easy to source as you think it is.  This conversation can get long.  Might be a good time to start a new thread.
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I agree , start another thread . I have done lots of these systems and know alot about them , but it would ruin Matt's thread  :smile30:
 
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ChryslerJet

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spd500 said:
Last Mohican said:
ChryslerJet said:
spd500 said:
If you want to run waste oil you need one of the old 12 valve engines . You can get a nice later model 24 valve truck and run homemade biodiesel for around 65 cents a gallon .  :smile30:
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Yup thats what I was thinking either way its still cheaper than buying gas.  I can get the big plastic tanks in the wire cage for a hundred bucks or so for storage.  Plan is to build a custom toolbox/tank with builtin transfer pump and filtration system.  pump the waste oil out of the chinese restaurants waste tank run it through the filtration system and drained into the 100 gallon tank which is below the toolbox.  Basically it will be 3/8ths tool box, 3/8ths storage tank and 1/4 pump and filter system.  The conversion system I am planning on using starts up, warms up and shuts down on the regular diesel and has a warming coil setup using the coolant to heat up the waste oil to temp.  I planned on using electric heaters as well.  All said and done will run about 2k to ad onto the truck and will save a ton on gas costs.
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You better research your source for WVO.  That is the hard part.  Most restaurants have a contract with someone to haul off the oil.  It is an all or non proposition with them.  You can't be picky.  You have to take the good oil and the sour oil.  You can't run the sour oil in your vehicle.  It is not as easy to source as you think it is.  This conversation can get long.  Might be a good time to start a new thread.
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I agree , start another thread . I have done lots of these systems and know alot about them , but it would ruin Matt's thread  :smile30:
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Well when I find the perfect truck I will put up another thread and will look to you on the advice.
 
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blazeracer

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ChryslerJet said:
Well when I find the perfect truck I will put up another thread and will look to you on the advice.
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We that conversation over the winter and I think it boiled down to a Cummins motor, Allison tranny on Ford frame and axles with Chevy cab, interior, shocks and springs. Or something like that.
 
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ChryslerJet

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blazeracer said:
ChryslerJet said:
Well when I find the perfect truck I will put up another thread and will look to you on the advice.
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We that conversation over the winter and I think it boiled down to a Cummins motor, Allison tranny on Ford frame and axles with Chevy cab, interior, shocks and springs. Or something like that.
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LOL
 
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Captin Hazlewood

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Last Mohican said:
ChryslerJet said:
spd500 said:
If you want to run waste oil you need one of the old 12 valve engines . You can get a nice later model 24 valve truck and run homemade biodiesel for around 65 cents a gallon .  :smile30:
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Yup thats what I was thinking either way its still cheaper than buying gas.  I can get the big plastic tanks in the wire cage for a hundred bucks or so for storage.  Plan is to build a custom toolbox/tank with builtin transfer pump and filtration system.  pump the waste oil out of the chinese restaurants waste tank run it through the filtration system and drained into the 100 gallon tank which is below the toolbox.  Basically it will be 3/8ths tool box, 3/8ths storage tank and 1/4 pump and filter system.  The conversion system I am planning on using starts up, warms up and shuts down on the regular diesel and has a warming coil setup using the coolant to heat up the waste oil to temp.  I planned on using electric heaters as well.  All said and done will run about 2k to ad onto the truck and will save a ton on gas costs.
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You better research your source for WVO.  That is the hard part.  Most restaurants have a contract with someone to haul off the oil.  It is an all or non proposition with them.  You can't be picky.  You have to take the good oil and the sour oil.  You can't run the sour oil in your vehicle.  It is not as easy to source as you think it is.  This conversation can get long.  Might be a good time to start a new thread.
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Installed one of these on a VW Golf for a friend of mine. It works like a champ as long as you have clean veggy oil. We used a pex fuel line inside of a heater hose to preheat the oil. Then just like SPD says start-up and shutdown on diesel. Only issue we ever had with that system was forgetting to change the WVO filter before it started getting cool in the fall. Even then it was a simple fix and it would still run on diesel. He got his oil from a friends restaurant where all they did was fry tortillas in it. Check out greasecar.com for ideas.
 
Last Mohecian

Last Mohecian

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The hunt is still on.  I like that one in Boston but the guy got a little short with me when I started asking questions about it.
 
Knotty Girl

Knotty Girl

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Last Mohican said:
The hunt is still on.  I like that one in Boston but the guy got a little short with me when I started asking questions about it.
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Think about it he was from Boston  crazy.gif Yankee  :smile15:
 
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WAFOBABY

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LOL Damn Chad we have the same taste I told Matt about this one Monday night.  Matt you know the deal if you find one out of state and want to go look at it.  ALso I have a buddy that owens a transport company he goes east coast to west coast.  He has three trucks one is a double stacker toy hauler he hauls for Harliey Davidson dealerships and NPA auctions which is motorcycles and atv repo auction.  His INS policy is over 2 million in coverage.  Not sure if he can fit it inside his inclosed but just a thought to keep in your head.  The red and WHITE one would look good behind the avalanche .  :smile30:
 
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