Tour of Waste Vegetable Oil Conversion

Here is a tour of my 1993 Chevy K2500 4x4 with the 6.5L Diesel that I converted to run on Waste Vegetable Oil.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Diesel
• Turbo
• 6.5L
• 6.5
• 4x4
• 2500
• Waste
• Straight
• Vegetable
• Oil
• WVO
• SVO
• Conversion
• GMC
• Chevy
• Chevrolet
• Custom

[dontlike2bfedwith]

i herd the vegy oil trucks are harder 2 start is this true?

[JonathanErber]

@dontlike2bfedwith Depends on a lot of things. If you use crumby oil or don't clean it well enough you can damage your engine, and then yes, it is harder to start. You can also forget to purge your fuel system before shutting it down which makes it harder to start, or do your conversion wrong etc... Basically, do it wrong and yes you can damage your engine, do it right and you'll never know a difference. I know people who have 300k miles on wvo conversions w/ no problems.

[HedgehogOutdoors]

Has this engine been reliable for you guys that have them?

[JonathanErber]

@HedgehogOutdoors Between my brothers and I, we've owned quite a few of them, and they've been great! Just sold a cargo van with around 260k miles running great, have a suburban with 290k miles still running great on the original trans with no major work since we bought it at 150k miles, just junked a plow truck at 240k miles (truck had rusted away), sold my black truck (in the video) with 225k miles running strong, picked up another one at 240k miles, using it as a plow truck (runs like new)...

[JonathanErber]

@HedgehogOutdoors They seem like great engines and will run forever if you do a couple things... On older 6.5l's, make sure they don't overheat if you use them for towing on steep grades or with huge loads. If you need, upgrade to the cooling system installed on the newer 6.5l diesels. A big help for these is an after-market chip that controls the trans (otherwise under heavy use the trans' seem to burn up around 200k miles). Other than that, they love being driven hard and given idle time.

[JonathanErber]

@HedgehogOutdoors I talked to a guy that was a 6.5l diesel specialist for a dealer since the early 90's and he said: "The engines are built to be beat upon. So make sure you beat on them!" He said their biggest enemy is the person who babies them. lol I'm a big fan of the 1992 and 1993 6.5l TD's... Good engines, but not really powerhouses.

[HedgehogOutdoors]

@JonathanErber Ok, thanks for the help. I like the sound of those engines but I haven't heard many good things about them. I would probably be the person that babies it driving around so I can save money, but offroad I would be full throttle. Chevy trucks can handle it lol

[mengle2004]

Nice setup

[whatsaguytodo]

@JonathanErber I've got a '96 6.5 with an electronic ip with about 15000 km clocked so far & no problems (knock on wood). I did replace the ip before converting though but I put a used one in. It had about 100,000 km on it. I just did a video of my oil cleaning system & will do one for the truck soon. Mine's a lot simpler than yours though. For one thing, I didn't bother with the gauges. Just a 2nd tank with a hot fox, a fuel switching valve, heated filter and an inline electric heater.