Tue 31 Oct 2006
Not much news on the bus-front lately since it isn’t running at the moment. Sen & his dad spent lots of time on the injector pump and then found that the starter needs more work. Now we’re just waiting for paychecks and warm sunny days for working on the bus. A garage would come in pretty handy right now…
We made it to the Okanogan Family Faire, but the bus didn’t.
It was still a fun trip and I can’t believe we packed all our stuff, Juneau, and a friend in the car on the way there. We had several friends from all over camp with us and I traded and sold lots of massage oil & soap, and a necklace. We even brought home 3 gallons or so of quite clean waste veggie oil from the curly fry booth near our booth!
I’ll update when there’s news, Seneca should be working on the bus tomorrow. Until then, we’re still regularly collecting grease and have quite a bit in our barrel. It’s much more difficult to work with now that it’s so cold though. It solidifies in the cubies that we leave it in to settle out the hydrogenated & animal oils, and sometimes we have to bring them inside by the heater (ew!). Once we get the grease in the big storage barrel we can just heat it with our little tank heater which goes inside the barrel, so pumping it into the car tank from there isn’t too difficult.
Well, I better get ready for our Halloween party & finish up some work – ciao for now!
May 25th, 2007 at 7:37 pm
hey guys, sounds fantastic! i’ve been following your journey thus far and appreciate the journey you are on. i live in australia and have been for the past 3 years travelling/working around driving dharma, my vegieoil powered landcruiser. like your selves it has been quite a journey getting the kinks out of the system. last year we crossed the continent 4 times almost totally on waste vegie oil. my blog is not up to date nor is it comprehensive but it has a few fotos. i started out hand filtering used oil after cooking the oil on a fire but now its more streamlined using a 12volt pump and filter so that i can take around 200 in a couple of hours with little effort.
more power to you both,
happy days,
dave and dharma
May 29th, 2007 at 9:33 am
Thanks for visiting and leaving a comment Dave! The link to your blog didn’t work, but I’d love to see it and I’m glad to hear that there are others around the world running their cars on veggie oil. It’s always good to hear from fellow “greasers.”
Happy greasing!
~Megan