Happy New Year 2009

3000 miles testdrive

and some troubles at higher rpms and heavy loads.

Obviously the coarse filter in the fuel tank is glogged and must be cleaned or changed.

2000 miles testdrive

At 15 % level all seems to go well. The mixing of fuel components proceeds:

Troubles before 3000 kms

At 9 degrees below zero the fuel filter did not work properly. The dilution was sunk to 15 % and the trobles vanished. Next photo tells how dieselfuel and canola mix automatically just letting them to stand:

The whole picture here

First snow

and beautiful winterday:

Jetta had two difficult days - due to the rodent sabotage.
Silicone hose was changed to polyethene. That hose was used in the field tractor test in the end of last millenium. About 10 000 litres of mustard seed oil was drained trough it. At the same time the fuel filter was changed.

First 1000 miles OK

Canolaoil 25 % in the fuelmix of my Jetta worked without problems during first 1000 miles:

SVO-test has began by soft landing

Soft landing in this case means using 60 litres organic canola oil that is only 14 months old. If the motor of my old Jetta goes strong for a year, I assume to burn 340 litres of mustard seed oils that have been pressed in the previous millenium - so they are more than 10 years old.
I will tell all the important happenings in my homepages here:
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Jetta 404 000 miles

Today Jetta exceeded 650 000 kilometers:

Exactly 10 years ago

the fuel was changed in the old Mercedes . Using mustard seed oil decreased the smoke value 30%. The test lasted more than 90 000 kilometers.

Longest day of the year

Growing mustard 30 years

Between these photos are 30 years:

It happened exactly 15 years ago that I with shaky hands tanked my field tractor Valmet with coldpressed mustard seed oil.

Jetta is durable

In spite of many tests and years Jetta seems to be durable:

These are not miles, but anyway...
Next thousand kilometers became 5 days later:

Some days later: