Jim and others-

Why do I want to do this ? Well, I'm as green as green can be on the subject so I'm just at the very begging of the due dilligence process but I guess the reason would be to use another coach I have for going coast to coast frequently doing training seminars and hauling the gear around to the shows. If the fuel cost was close to free then that would pretty much offset the cost of a driver if I were doing say 2-3 seminars a month. Plus, it sort of seems like a near project I guess.

I talked to someone on the phone right now who I thought for sure would say it was a hair brained idea but he mentioned that Willie Nelson did it to his bus and others also he knew of and that it works great. I think some of these that he mentioned coverted to using a blend like half and half but I'm looking into using straight vegtable oil. One guy on the forum of www.frybrid.com converted his bluebird and I guesss it's working great. Went coast to coast and used about $50 worth of diesel. You run on diesel until the veg. oil get's warmed up enough though one of several various systems in order to thin out, flow and burn up.

Regarding the generator and the webasco, I wouldn't think about converting these. I can see the generator down the road but the Webasco doesn't seem to be hardy enough to bear this. The vegtable oil is supposed to have superior lubrication to the fuel which anyone would find easy to belive.

I'm thinking that you would leave the bus tanks and everything as is instead of provisiong the bus with the neccessary holding tanks for the vegtable oil and then again using bay space for the needed filtration system. I like the idea of putting the still and the tanks in the bed of a pick up truck and then you could easliy run around any given town and collect the oil as well as have a toad (which I don't pull one at all now). Then I would provision quick connects for the alt. fuel supply and another one for the return of the unused oil to the holding tanks on the truck bed. I guess you would need several solenoids that would switch between normal mode and toad supply mode. If it doesn't work, I haven't modeifed the bus for nothing and if it does work you can move the toad vehicle between as many buses as you want (I have several) without doing all the tanks and filter installations on each bus.