So I took the Excursion out for a 25 mile grease run... Love free fuel.. everything worked as proscribed. I honestly can't tell any difference in power or ride.. O' the cost.. slightly less. ;)

Vegi cpu DONE!

1 - Basic Stamp BS1
3 - N channel MOSFET's
4 - Relays
1 - Fuse

4 hours of fun ;)

It should work... Bench checked.

I decided to use brass T's

So, I decided to switch the plastic coolant T's to brass....

Flat plate heat exchanger

Lots of stuff done *Thanks Matt*

Davco Filter - Flat plate heat exchanger - Fass pump - Strainer - Tank - Heater hose - Fuel hose / line... DONE!

Tank ready to go ...

I hope to get the tank mounted today.

Small stickers

Bed Liner Paint

I coated the tank and heat exchanger with bed liner paint to help protect.

Davco Cleanup

Davco Cleanup

Had to sink or swim on the ARC welding

I think I ended up treading water.. But it will hold. Tank mount done. Now I just have to coat the bottom of the tank with bed liner paint.

New OEM fuel lines with 1/4" cv's

Off with the 1/8" cv's on with the new 1/4" and SS fuel lines... < 3sec starts yippee

New CV setup 1/4" -4 ss hose

Lets try bigger cv and changing the stock fuel line.

HYBRID

Well, its not converted yet but soon...

Tank Done!

33.5 gals of grease.. Yippeee

Now Can I put it all back!

Ready to pull valve covers.

Not too bad.

Disconnect NEG. battery terminals.

1.) Pull ALT.
2.) Pull Air Intake
3.) Pull both cold and hot turbo pipes
4.) Pull Air Compressor
5.) Disconnect connectors
6.) Pull valve covers

Changing the glow plugs..YUCK

I have some bad glow plugs. Have to pull the valve covers.

Looks Good!

Grease fill cap installed.

Grease Fill Cap..

Now I have to drill the mount holes.

New Fuel Line Gaskets

These are for the fuel lines, 2 for the heads, 2 for the fuel filter.

Heat Exchanger - It gets cold in Wisconsin

This will heat the grease right before it hits the fuel rail in the heads. I know its over kill but -10 deg and running on grease... Priceless


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Temporary valve & fuel line.

I had to install a temp fuel line and valve until I have time to finish the install.

Just got the purge valve.

I just received the grease purge valve. 12v dc 1/16" orifice and 10-32 treads.

Next Steps Install Check Valves on the OEM Fuel lines

So the check valves prevent the grease from contaminating the stock diesel fuel system. The only point grease mixes with diesel is in the engine fuel rails.

The easy one is driver side front of the engine, the hard one is passenger side back of the engine. The easy one took a few hours the hard one took 5 hours had to disconnect the exhaust down tube from the turbo. FUN! but they are in.

First Step, I need a grease fuel tank.. So I went to see Dan Lade at Redline Roadsters, LLC he is building me a 33.5 gal grease tank for under the Excursion. Its 72"x12"x9" nice! Lots of welding..

Just Bought The Beast! Love it!

I just picked up my 2003 7.3L Ford Excursion to convert to run on Waste Vegetable Oil (WVO) basically a 7,000 lb Hybrid.