Nissan Patrol 4x4 (Africa)

Hi All,
Where do you get rid of used engine oil?
There used to be a Rose Foundation bin at my local municipal dump but it never got collected / was always full and now is no longer there...
I do a 10l oil change every 5000km, and decant the oil back into the containers it comes in, so now have about 100+l of used oil piling up that I need to get rid of.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Bruce

Wish I was closer to you to collect. I run my old TD27 Sani on that stuff.

davidvdm wrote: ↑07 Jun 2021 13:41 Wish I was closer to you to collect. I run my old TD27 Sani on that stuff.

You use old engine oil as fuel? How does that work? I know about biodiesel. But not with engine oil surely?

To the original question, chat to Anthony Forgey maybe, we briefly chatted about all his old engine oil he collects with the services he does and how he disposes of it with Rose Foundation

I know my older brother used to filter the used oil & add 5litres to every full tank of diesel in his old 300d merc.

Haha I am sure my old Patrollie will happily chug along with a mixture of diesel, old engine oil plus a tad of used chips shop sunflower oil. No 2SO for me though...

Dungbeetle wrote:Haha I am sure my old Patrollie will happily chug along with a mixture of diesel, old engine oil plus a tad of used chips shop sunflower oil. No 2SO for me though...

Careful using cooking oil too soon after engine oil. Cooking oil is an amazing fuel system cleaner, and seems to react a bit with old engine oil. It causes the soot in the engine oil to floculate and block up your fuel filter. One of the reasons I use tractor fuel filters that only cost R48 each, and always have at least two spare in the back of the car. I also have a hand full of marbles running around in the tank to prevent the soot settling to the bottom and causing a horrible layer of sludge.
Engine oil and diesel at 50/50 has a low enough viscosity to feed nicely and does not affect performance too much. Richer than that, mine seems to loose top end revs, but seems to gain torque. He gets super grunty at very low revs. I see it in low range where with clean diesel I have to pull the hand throttle out slightly to prevent it from choking off with all four wheels digging in the sand, but with old engine oil, he will just sit there at idle digging with all four wheels and dragging a car behind him.

What can also sometimes catch you out, is if you rescue engine oil that was spiked with an additive like PS23, or Duralube or one of those stop smoke mixes. But the old diesels will run on virtually any old oil. Transformer oil is one of the nice ones, although seems to be prone to holding a fair amount of moisture. Performance wise, cooking seems to be the best though. I have heard from a few people that have tested various oils who agree that cooking oil sometimes even "feels" better than straight diesel.

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Very interesting.
I had no idea

I have a workshop just around the corner at the back of the Total garage. I usually ask the owner as he has a tank that gets collected to be recycled