 Good morning from Tucson. Got young David with me. We're gonna try and filter the vegetable oil Get all the crap out of it. Information on the oil. It has crap in it. I'm trying to get the crap out. David's gonna help me. He's probably gonna hold the camera Because it's a little bit easier when I have other people when I'm doing work to hold the camera. He's very excited about that this morning. Extremely excited. So, so here's let me just go into a little detail. It's been clogged the oil has been clogging my filter on the way to the engine every 40 50 miles or so it choose up a $8 filter $9 filter right still saving money as opposed to diesel because I got it for free but Some re for some reason The oil that I put in the tank was not clean enough Right there on the bottom is a drain plug It's so I will attach a ball valve to this and then attach a transfer pump and suck out all the oil from the tank Now I'm sure there are many ways to skin a cat and I'm sure lots of people have very good ideas This is how I'm doing it today. I Have a trash can I I went to the Thrift shop and I got two pairs of very large pants These pants are probably the size that the trolls wear When they are commenting on YouTube videos in the van life now We also have zip ties and I have this That goes into the the drain plug ball valve and that goes to my transfer pump now I'm going to take the zip tie and The zip tie this together then flip it inside out and that will be Hopefully and I might actually either double them up or put a pant leg inside of a pant leg To hopefully that's enough to get all the sediment out of there because it's it's very fine sediment and These are a hell of a lot cheaper than $8 filters. Here's something funny. I Found the right size. I think it's like three eighths or size ten and I put it in look it's already wiggling we didn't this thing wasn't even tight all the way and I Only have myself to blame for that because I installed this thing So for future reference make sure you tighten your plug all the way, huh? So what I'm doing right now So I'm using this Allen wrench No, I don't really need to I can literally unscrew it with my hand I have a little catch down here for the vegetable oil And this is my contraption to stop the flow. It's a little ball valve. All right, if you don't know what that is It just means well the oil won't come shooting out Step one. Oh, we got all the sludge wanting to come out Holy crap All right. Can you see the sludge in the camera dude? All right. There you go. I'm gonna drop it Gotta figure out which way is tighten now. It's threaded and we are having a little leakage Nature the beast Only lost a little bit of oil All I need to do is tighten this enough so that The oil is not coming through the threads, so I'll stop right there Awesome And that's a lot cleaner than putting a little kitty pool down here, but check this out Let's put this in the sunlight. This is a lot of the heavy debris That has been Clogging the filters. Is that pretty clear? Zoom it in at 35. So this is a lot of the sediment That's been clogging up the filters you can see it right on top of there. I don't know what that's from I don't know where all that stuff came from I know that I filtered that stuff out So it is a little bit of a mystery to me, but that's what's been clogged up the tank No, as you can see Debris, I'm a poet. You didn't even know it. All right. So today like I said, we're gonna do the affordable way to filter the oil using a zip tie and large paints Very large denim paints. I got these for about four or five bucks. I am tightening them as much as possible So there's one and here's two And again, the reason for this is so I don't have to spend $8 per filter For my mistake. This is uh, you can sometimes pick these up for like two bucks, right? And I watch this on youtube so it has to be right Okay So zip tie the bottoms And you take your extra large pants Troll size we will call them Flip them inside out. You got one pair done All right guys, check it out This is the oil from my tank And I am running it through the transfer pump um So this is mostly vegetable oil as you can see it's not that clear Now it's a little more cleaner. So we are sucking from the bottom And the bottom is where the debris settles So there's a pretty good chance. I don't even have to suck out the whole amount of oil because this stuff right here is looking pretty damn clean But to be on the safe side I'm gonna pump out as much as possible Because when I pump out is what I save in filters So as you can see The pump just turned off. Okay, so here's what we did. We put a strainer in this filter housing On the tube coming from the tank before it hits a tank Uh, sorry before it hits a filter Um pump because the strainer in the in the pump is getting clogged by debris Now I'm gonna clog the debris in this thing because it's removable in the hell of a lot easier So I just have an adapter here and uh There are two thread sizes crank it around The opposite direction and of course Once you do find the hole This slips in nice and easy The way It was meant to be I hope you guys are getting a kick out of this. So that is pretty tight in here. I feel like this was Loosened up a little bit So I'm just gonna go ahead torque this one back down This is a messy job here playing with veggie oil All right slight change of plans here because This is a first time Problem right First time I've had to drain the tank And then filter it. So this is a very slow filtration process So what I'm going to do instead is just catch the large debris And I'm just going to recirculate it because this Canister Mesh canister will strain the large pieces that are Just large and really the large pieces are the big problem With my setup because I'm blowing through filters every 40 50 miles. So Next time I'll filter better, but this is a process as you can see this is going to take forever. It's going to get heavy I think this would just be a better way to Recirculate and filter at the same time. So without further ado, let's plug it in Is that all saturated fats? What is that? Oh, it's bubbles Okay Oh, you know what I need to turn this on That will start the oil flow There we go so we were just recirculating the oil and uh like I said this uh Mesh strainer will pick up the larger debris And uh I don't know and then I think that's the The fix for the time being so I'll just let this run for quite a while and then we'll check back in with you guys All right, so guys I have a magnetized uh Screwdriver and I'm just pushing it through some of this debris Look at that if you can see that It's all the debris that I've been finding is metal now I don't know if it's from the welding of the tank Or the cutting of the tank before the welding and I don't know if it's from The motor oil that I poured in there But we have we know what it is now we have metal debris Um, and of course you don't want metal debris to get into your engine Um, and it's a good thing it is clogging up, but so right now we're just pumping it through Probably something that's not good enough to filter this stuff out I'm gonna have to put a big oil filter on this and get all this stuff out because otherwise I'm just gonna Repeat the process right now. We're just recirculating through a metal strainer. So At least we now know what it is you're gonna take a break over at vegetable oil headquarters This is sponsored in part by waste vegetable oil the solution for a more vegetable greasy world Um, I just turned this thing out off after about 20 minutes the motor's about I don't know 150 degrees. It's pretty hot burns my hand Um, I accidentally this is gonna surprise no one whatsoever, but I accidentally Reversed the flow here So all the sediment is going inside of the filter strainer You know, whatever happens, but the setup is working. We are getting out the big debris Big debris meaning anything over 150 microns Which is not that big for a vegetable oil Source as a fuel it needs to be closer to one micron, but I screwed up and um I might replace this one with another Filter and then just recirculate as much as possible because this is a lot easier and then I'll of course pump it out Into storage tanks just like this And then you don't know this but I'm gonna drop this tank once it's empty And then I'm gonna install a heated pickup a um I figured what they're called actually Arctic fox or hot fox heated filter Heated by the coolant. It's gonna heat and Radiate it's gonna heat the tank and it's also gonna heat the fuel being sucked out of the tank It comes out of the top and all that fun stuff. So we got some things to do here Also, I believe tomorrow is transmission day I need to call the guys make sure because I'm gonna film that entire process tear down and Rebuild it's gonna be fun The mystery of the clogged filters has now been uncovered on this episode of jacks austin. All right, so I've narrowed it down to uh the metal not going through a 10 or 15 micron felt filter. No way is that possible. Absolutely not um And if you disagree you will just have to wait and see the felt filter because it's literally impossible The debris has to come from When the tank Was cut it was washed before it was cut, but it wasn't washed after it was cut See what i'm saying So when the welder and no fault of the welder at all, uh my fault if anything for not rinsing it out well lack of knowing lack of experience Because you never know what you don't know right Even though of course there are a couple people who like to assume that I know everything I really don't so Okay wash Cut Welded welded together. We're talking about the fuel tank. Then it was filled with oil Well when I first put oil in this thing I only put in like 30 gallons So it only went up yay high But then after that I put it all the way up right there's like 90 gallons in here so as the Level of oil it was going higher. It was grabbing these uh metal pieces paint chips etc On the wall of the tank and then dropping down collecting and then getting sucked out because it sucks from the bottom Not the top This is where all of the stuff came that was clogging up my eight dollar filter so After I circulate this oil many times and i'm gonna have to change the direction of this another time Maybe you can get a new strainer because all the crap is on the inside or should be on the outside um So after this recirculates quite a bit until I feel safe I will then dump out or pump out the oil into three of these containers uh to hang on to Because like I said before early in the video then i'm gonna have to drop the tank Do some work on the tank put it back up and all that jazz And there's no way i'm gonna do it when there's a thousand pounds of oil in there Totally stupid bad idea very unsafe. I'll do it when it's a hundred or two hundred pounds. So if it falls on me No big deal for the most part So I also had a I don't know. I just have to mention this because I actually thought it was funny So the video went up the other day about the transmission And all that stuff and you know, I've seen all these videos where people are like literally begging for money and You know, that's not really That's not really my mo like I said If you like what i'm doing you want to help out you want to join patreon knock yourself out I used to bartend. It's kind of like a tip jar completely up to you Um, there were a couple troll a couple trolls that came by and I thought it was pretty funny um One guy was such a troll. He didn't even know he was a troll. He's like what I'm using my real name in my Real face. I'm like you're just a fucking asshole. So get lost. So there's some people out there that just you know I just naturally shy away from negative people negative negativity negative thoughts um Because it is literally poison for your soul If you are a happy positive person you will exude happiness and positivity and people want to be your friend And you're just you know, it's like oh my gosh that so-and-so is just a just the nicest person, right? Depends, you know, what kind of life you want to live completely up to you But I guarantee you The negative thoughts the negative words the negativity It's like poison for yourself as well as other people But it literally poisons your organs your insides your soul your mind everything But I just had to laugh it off earlier because I mean, what can you do, you know, but um Anyways, I know it was just kind of funny. It's such a troll didn't even know he's a troll. Anyways, by the way, I block Trolls whatever so if anybody wants a troll Comment down below your nastiest thought and I will click quickly with a click of the button Block your ass from commenting on future videos. All right now back to the important stuff The vegetable oil. This is some of the debris that first came out of the Tank now, of course, not all of this because this was left outside. This is just a uh A paint thing. This is left outside. So there was a little bit, you know Dust dirt sand like the sand grit down that corner that That didn't come out of the tank, but all the all this black stuff and the stuff floating all that was in the bottom of the tank and For those who don't know all the sediments in oil or water Just like sand in the ocean they fall to the bottom. So this was like the nastiest part. So I'm just trying to get all these really big Particles out that never should have been in there in the first place. I'm just trying to get those things out um But all's well in the vegetable world um It's gonna work fine You know, we've got a couple little bumps and bruises and you know, like I said, nobody jumps out of the womb you know an expert martial artist or dancer or trombone player um And this is a learning lesson. So this is a lesson I've learned Look what happens here. The paint the paint system is new to me, right two denim jeans now. There's no way That debris is getting through these jeans whatsoever. I'm sorry Someone thinks otherwise. I I firmly disagree with you now. Of course a very small Micron number could get through but anything that would cause the pump In a quick fashion is not coming through the jeans. Okay. I don't know what micron the jeans are one five ten whatever, right? It's It's great. It's You think someone's gonna get through jeans. You got another thing coming now. However, look at what's happening here Uh, I filled up the jeans now the level of the oil it has leveled out and um, it is not going to continue to drain out. So Since I'm mobile, this is not gonna work. I honestly need to have a dual rachore system You know with some hoses and whatever if I'm going to plan on sucking oil Now if I had my own setup, I would do a gravity system where there was like a primary filter Sorry, a primary tank up high which then filters through maybe something like this going into another Level which gravity feeds into another one and then the bottom one's like pure like one micron or something Now since I'm on the road, I'm gonna have to figure out some kind of system What do you guys think about one of those? I don't know Toolbox type things right like a real long one Uh bolt in the pump Put some hoses in there. Maybe not these hoses because it's so stiff Maybe something like a garden hose. Huh? What do we think about a garden hose on there? strainer On the suck and then some kind of filtration thing then the pump then you put it into the tank Spinning out ideas right here This I will continue on with this tomorrow because I am just curious about how this is going to work out Um, I don't know how much fuel aka oil is in the tanks at this very moment Right, so I have three of these trash cans. I'm gonna fill them up with oil That's a total three times 32 for those mathematicians out there 96 gallons That should empty out this tank. I hope and then I can drop it and everything I said Like I said, we're gonna continue on but I just want to take a moment I have just been feeling so appreciative to the community to all of the wonderful people who watch the videos and Understand this is a learning process Um, every little thing you can do Helps me get to a point of self-sufficiency on the road. That is the main goal here Um Like comment share, you know those You've heard them a million times, but uh people just need to be aware of the videos I plan on doing a lot more travels I might even park this And then go backpacking at some point. That is my background. I backpacked from San Diego to Guatemala for Two or three months by myself And just the backpack people said oh my god, you're gonna die at the most amazing amazing time of my life So I might park this thing Airbnb it get a little income and then take off But I do want to get to the point Where I get my 100,000 youtube subscriber placard You know I just want this to turn into so much more you have no idea. I started this thing because years ago Because I was a little frustrated With the tv industry I've hosted several things in the past I have a background in editing hosting Making videos all that stuff and I just thought to myself made all you know all this money Uh on this job for the dairy industry And I put it into bus number one and I went off on these you know travels trying to just You know live my personal dream. So Help me out Tell your uh tell your neighbors tell your friends tell your tell your grandma You know spread the word we are uh, we are going places And uh, I look forward to taking you guys with me