Heh, come down to Cheltenham for the Gold Cup and buy a couple of thousand litres with your winnings :)
Heh, come down to Cheltenham for the Gold Cup and buy a couple of thousand litres with your winnings :)
lol
I may be being a tad thick - the injector pump is the thing to the LHS front of the head as you look at it stood infront of the bumper? And if it says Bosch on it I can bang biodiesel in? Do folk who sell biodiesel generally have pumps etc. or is it something you buy in bulk?
Aye, it should have some pipes running off it, one end of it should be driven off the timing belt (undercover), and it'll be attached to one end of the accelerator cable.
ISTR that has Bosch stamped on it. Anyone know if the Lucas one is considerably different looking to be 100% sure?
yeah, follow where the fuel pipe come out of the fuel filter. If it says Bosch, run it on 50:50 veg/diesel. If it says Lucas (like mine) well, I've ran 2000 miles on almost straight bio now so the Lucas can either handle it (as suggested on a website I saw), or I'm chancing it...
People do sell it at the pump; the two places I've bought it from are industrial units with a pump inside. They're happy to sell it in bulk, I usually buy 60 litres in containers on top of filling the tank up, because I don't have a local supplier that I know of. They'll sell it in whatever bulk quantities you want, they've got IBC's, drums etc.
Yeah, look on the side down toward the bottom of the car, it'll have a Lucas badge on it ;)
ISTR the Bosch one has a different arrangement for it's cables but I can't remember what it looks like. There is a picture in my Haynes manual, but I can't find it lol
A quick bit of googling suggests the bosch is the pump to have (according to Elsbett, a fatherland SVO conversion firm), so you might be chancing it.
The Bosch one's shorter but that doesn't really help unless you've got a Lucas one to compare it with :-)
Mine has the lucas pump. I can take a pic if it would be useful for elimination.
Bosch is the one to have for running Bio - the lucas has the weak shaft inside the pump somewhere which can go snap if you use gloopy fuel.
The filling station has closed but I believe the members club still exists.
Bio is no gloopier than dino. Veg oil is. Veg will kipper a lucas pump without modifications to the fuel system, a Bosch will be fine.
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