Waste oil as Fuel

[NJT 5573]

I have been adding used motor oil at 1 or 2 gallons to a hundred to my fuel tanks for 30 years. No special filters and no noticable loss of filter life. In  5+ million personal miles of driving truck I hung one injector about 15 years ago.

That said, I'm going to continue my ways with the truck engines and run my buses on #2 diesel and other additives that are not recycled.

[Barn Owl]

When I started my job I was shocked at the trash that got dumped into the storage fuel tanks. Fuel tanks have an overflow trap that gets full of all kinds of junk, water, etc. There is a trap drain that empties into the tank and you just pull the chain to drain it. Like I was told: "You just dumped a gallon of junk into a 10,000 gal tank. It amounts to nothing". So, that company that dumps 55 gal of WEO into a 10k tank amounts to only .55% of the volume. There are filters at the pump, then the filters on the trucks, so I guess it doesn't do much harm. I wouldn't do it to my bus though, besides, I need the WEO to burn my brush piles.