Hilux 4x4 Forum

Thanks for letting me into the wonderful world of technology Dave! Attached is a typical test report of BD that I did. This diesel caused various failures (diesel pumps and injectors) on a number of vehicles even though it conformed to the SANS specs. Main problem was that no additives were added t...

I have BD quality tested often from the private manufacturers. The main problem is water dilution - it is expensive to dry the diesel and secondly the lack of lubrication additives cause huge problems. That is why the pumps and injectors fail sooner than it should. The presence of water and lack of...

Don't know much about the present generation F250 but I used to drive a 4x2 in the late 90s in Mali, loved that big beast, the size of it, the power either churning through thick mud (and if you have experienced a Mali downpour you know what I mean :D: ) or thick dust no problem, didn't matter what ...

my friends were doing the whole bio diesel thing here in cape towm They got the oil from kfc @R2 per litre. The 280D pump packed up(not definably from the bio but maybe),and the brand new hilux injectors were starting to give probs and diesel light kept coming on . He stopped using it first when he...

We have be running our company Dyna's on WVO for a few years now with no problems, one of them has done over 130,000 Kilometers so far and next week is going from Joburg to Durban to Richards Bay and back again to Joburg, it costs more in Toll gates than it does in fuel. We fitted a conversion kit a...

We used to run four of our company vehicles on Biodiesel that I would make, 2 Toyota Dyna's and 2 Fiat Doblo's the Fiats where not happy with it and I discovered the reason was the Lucas pump, so because of that we went back to diesel for them. The Dyna's just kept going merrily along until I found ...

We have been using SVO in 4 of our vehicles for the past year without any problems. Before that we made our own Biodiesel and i wish i had converted to SVO a long time ago. it is a pleasure to run on SVO, we dont have the hassle of making biodiesel, we dont have the glycerine problem, we dont have t...