Archive for the 'My Diesel' Category



A few weeks ago I finally broke down and bought some diesel. I had a sluggish moment that I thought might have been the filter clogging. It passed, but got me worried enough that I got some petrol diesel. Here is a graphic I stole off of the NOAA site. It shows the temperatures, in […]

It has come to my attention that you can die, burn your house down, get hurt real bad, and other nefarious and awful things. I am also aware that some people blindly follow instructions without using common sense, and then sue. This blog details a “hacked”, non-standard use, out of code, possibly illegal, not mother […]

My 300TD is licenced & registered and made the trek from Salt Lake to Hebgen Lake, MT. The whole way there was some form of biodiesel in the tank. The first 200 miles was on my own brew. Then I diluted with some petrol diesel and also brought along some stock from Dal […]

I’ve been tracking used Mercedes Benz W123’s and W126’s since I became interested in biodiesel. I have found that Craigslist (CL) always has a few of new these 79-85 diesels listed. If you are not familiar with CL they are a free online classifieds that started in San Francisco and have expanded all over the […]

Monday was Presidents Day and I had the day off. I cannot tell al lie, “I have rusted out fuel lines.”
I spent the day de-junk-showing the back yard. I cleared off the pad and pushed the 300TD onto the now clean concrete. I finally climbed under to check out the lines from the tank to […]