IDI, or indirect injection, on the older diesels can more easily be run on filtered waste vegetable oil. This is critical for powered transportation in a post apocalyptic world with little or no operational "fossil" fuel refineries. The old Mercedes engines such as the OM617 don't even need electricity to run or be started if you had a gear reduction hand crank.
Thank you. What about maintenance difficulties?
Parts are getting harder to find on the older stuff, but the old stuff has fewer or no sensors. This is a huge argument in the TDI swap community between e-TDI vs. m_TDI. The e-TDI uses the ECU and some of the sensors while the m-TDI is mechanically controlled.
Where do you stand on these things? What do you prefer, what are your goals in your build(I'm assuming you have a project or a toy that you play with)?
Why will these refineries be working while the oil refineries will not?
You can refine waste oil like fryer grease on a small scale in the comfort of your back yard.
Where is the fryer getting its grease? That stuff comes from somewhere. Unless you have a way to process raw vegetable matter into oil yourself you're not going to be any better off in a SHTF scenario than someone relying on a gasoline refinery.
Basic oils can be produced small scale at home with a hand press, or from animal fats.
What Toyota diesels would you recommend . I don’t want some unreliable German car or made in Detroit nigger ford
Toyota diesels are good but unfortunately are loaded with electronic junk that would make them unreliable in an EMP situation.
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