This unique bus is currently for sale on Craigslist. Imagine running your Detroit 8V-71 on waste reataurant fryer oil. It works!

Hurry to see it. These ads only stay online for a week.

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I know several folks who run buses on waste veggie oil. Very interesting, I wish I could figure out a way to do it on the road. It requires a certain amount of work, you can't just pour the oil into your tank.

when you find out, let me know also. why should kfc pay to get rid of what i'd be happy to take along with any leftover legs, thighs, etc. ;-).

The people I've talked to who are doing this all say that the quality of used oil you get depends on the restaurant. They have all said Chinese restaurants provide better (cleaner) oil than KFC, McDonalds, etc., which results in less filtering and better fuel.

Here are a few resource sites on veggie oil ….and some folk’s sites that do this while traveling….
http://www.veggiebus.com/

http://www.veggievan.org/

http://www.dancingrabbit.org/biodiesel/vegetable_oil_fuel.php

http://www.goldenfuelsystems.com/Pumps-&-Filters.html

http://www.fusel.com/vegoil_sites.html

http://www.dieselveg.com/conversion%20info.htm

This may be the same bus for sale in the Oakland area - anyway it is for sale $15,000, converted to run on waste veggie oil with photos posted. This ad will disappear in a week so wiew it now if interested.

1979 MCI Ad

Craigslist ad reads:

Reply to: sale-209269141@craigslist.org
Date: 2006-09-19, 1:32AM PDT

1979 MCI-9 Coach bus- 40 ft. Greyhound style, converted to run on recycled Vegetable oil! Stop paying for gas! You can collect used cooking oil for free from restaurants and run it in this converted diesel engine. Bus is also RV-conversion ready with almost all seats removed.

- 8V-71 Detroit Diesel engine- new (used) installed April of 2006.

- Approx. 400 gallons fuel carrying capacity- 210 gallon 'dirty' veggie tank, 40 gallon 'clean veggie tank, and 130 gallon regular diesel tank.

- Veggie system is located in the back luggage bay- two tanks, filters, pumping system, 50 ft. hose to pump oil from dumpsters, restaurants, etc. Electric heaters in the veggie tank to keep it hot, and an insulated line running to the engine. Vegetable oil conversion by RealEnergy.net, in Sonoma, CA, in September of 2005. Front two luggage bays are empty and available for storage, etc.

- Rebuilt alternator and regulator May 0f 2006, 24 volt electrical system has plenty of power for the bus, the veggie system and any possible invertors you might want to hook up for power supply in the bus.

- Interior of the bus is RV-conversion ready. First four rows of seats are in on either side, the rest of the bus is bare and ready for couches, bunks, countertops, anything. Bathroom in back of bus works but needs to be hooked up (we haven't used it). About 7 feet from floor to ceiling.

- Top speed of 75 mph- performance is the same on regular diesel or vegetable oil. Smooth cruising speed of 70 mph. Slows down a bit on hills but still climbs.

- Automatic 5-speed Allison transmission. Easy to drive.

- Registered as an RV- you do not need a special license to drive the bus.

- We have owned the bus since last August and have put approximately 20,000 miles on it, including a trip to the East Coast and back, and several trips to Colorado, Southern California and the Pacific NW. Previous owners were a church in Riverside, CA who apparantly hardly used the bus in several years, and before that a charter company in San Diego. All trips we have taken have been at least partly on free recycled veggie oil- we have saved literally thousands of dollars in gas costs in one year. Not to mention saving the planet from petroleum exhaust and etc. while we're doing it...

- Exterior in excellent condition, no rust. There is one scratch along the passenger side back luggage bay from scraping against a pole at a gas station. It's purely cosmetic and minor- all luggage bay doors work and lock fine.

- Three new tires as of Sep 2005- back inside tires and the front passenger side. The rest of the tires look decent- we would estimate them at 70%.

- A/C works but does not blow very cold, probably needs work, we have not used that very much. Heat works fine.

- New Starter as of Sep. 2005.

We are a band selling this bus (long story short) to get out of debt. We're very bummed to let it go because it's going to make someone out there very happy....but that's how it goes. Please email for more info or to see more pictures. Bus is currently in Oakland, CA and available for viewing, test driving, etc.

does anyone have info on how to do this

Here are two more interesting Links...

The Live Lightly Tour family now has a veggie diesel toad as well as a veggie diesel Class A motorhome.

The latest post from Live Lightly Tour says:

“In 2 months, we have gathered and filtered over 500 gallons of grease…for a savings of about $1,500!

We have traveled 5,000 miles on veggie oil, with no problems.

It takes approximately 1 -1. 5 hours to gather 100 gallons of grease.

We store 20 gallons of extra filtered grease in containers in front of the RV so we can fill up the car when necessary.

We have never had any problems finding grease."

http://livelightlytour.com/

http://escapees.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/147607461...521087762#9521087762

Rick

More Veggie Oil vehicles for sale and related Links...

http://therainbowfamilytribe.tribe.net/thread/fab9a9bd-...33-ad4f-13a53e9a554f

Here are pics of the above 38’ diesel bus converted to Veggie Oil... http://picasaweb.google.com/hippydan/bus

http://busforsaleguide.com/vegetable_oil_fuel.htm

http://parkersburg.craigslist.org/car/416571896.html

http://baltimore.kijiji.com/c-Cars-vehicles-Other-RV-Bu...EL-W0QQAdIdZ21690922

http://theorganicmechanic.org/OM/Veg%20Bus.html

http://realenergy.net/services

http://www.goodgrease.com/tag/bus

http://theveganbus.com/resources/

http://www.veggieboys.com/

http://www.transitantenna.com/tag/Bus/

There are a couple different ways to do the waste oil for fuel set-up. We seriously looked into it for our Eagle (old Detroit Diesel engine) and then decided that it would be best to use it for a diesel powered Webasto heater and/or generator. We found (in the area we were in at the time... Macon County NC) that most of the "local" oil available was of poor quality and the good stuff was "contracted" by a biodiesel refinery (then in the process of being built, now up and running). Since it's illegal to sell the waste oil, I haven't figured out how the Biofuel refinery is paying for the waste oil, but I know they are since we talked to the several of the local restaurants. We checked into the home distillery (BTW, the system we looked at also uses 55 gal drums of jet fuel $$ ) and deemed it unfeasible for our situation (too much traveling... it was a large setup and seemed to be more practical for a farm with multiple diesel equipment and vehicles) and also looked at the Greasel set-up. The Greasel was a bit more practical but we decided finding good waste oil in the rural areas we travel in was iffy. Most practical source for good clean oil would be 55 gal drums of fresh cooking oil, like canola, from a restaurant supply company (I didn't bother to find out what that would cost). Talk to the restaurants in your area(s) about their oil. It isn't quite as simple as it seems. Also the biofuel industry is paying fuel taxes... Currently there is no provisions made for a private individual to pay taxes (on a regular basis) for home brewed biofuel but, technically, taxes are still owed on it for highway use. I feel that off-road usage would be better than highway use... at some point the powers that be will make an example of someone. The info on these above mentioned websites is facinating (I've been to some of them before while researching the subject). Not every restaurant disposes of their waste oil the same way. Some places pour it into big containers, others (like Macon County) pour it down into a special drain (all the drains in the restaurant flow into this same drain), every so often, a pumper truck (septic tank outfit in Macon county's case... I don't know if it is a dedicated "grease" truck or not) drives up to the drain and siphons off the grease layer... this is all combined restaurant greases and is a bad source of grease as it needs a lot of special processing in order to be usable (and the big biofuel outfit had contracted to get it so we can't use it even if we had the machinery to filter and seperate the oil). In fact, all the rural areas we have been in, dump their grease (including the highly touted oriental restaurants) into drains with grease traps. They do not pour it into bins, cans, etc like the places I have read about in all the waste oil sites.