DudaDiesel.com - Diesel Secret Biodiesel Scam

Diesel Secret (DSE) is a website which claims it has found a new way to make biodiesel with a simple additive. It’s advertised as easy, cheap and fast. In the fine print, which most users don’t bother reading, you will find that they will take no liability for damage to your engine from use of their method. Their website also mentions that they are not a solid company. They are simply a bunch of guys on laptops who do not have a definite location. The reason is quite simple. So you can't go after them when their method racks up a large maintenance bill on your vehicle.

The Diesel Secret additive is nothing special at all. In fact, it’s just a combination of some sort of alcohol or minerals that smell sort of like diesel. Along with the additive they give a recipe book which claims the secret recipe is to mix a certain combination of diesel, gasoline, kerosene and vegetable oil along with a small amount of their additive. This is where the scam fools most, making them thing that this is a “secret” formula and the additive actually does something to make biodiesel. It does not make biodiesel. They even state this on the website. In fact, all they are doing is blending fuels together to thin out the vegetable oil, which is not a safe way to run your fuel.

Whether you choose to blend fuels or not, you should not use the diesel secret additive. The only purpose of the additive is to steal money from your pocket while advertising a well-known technique for using vegetable oil as a mixed fuel. The additive does nothing.

Why blending vegetable oil with other fuels is bad

There are many reasons why you should not just thin down vegetable oil with other fuels. One reason is that. vegetable oil contains many fats which may not fully melt until at least 80-100 degrees F. These fats will clog your filters extremely fast, causing you to be stranded on the highway. Some users may find cold vegetable oil will clog a typical filter in only 50 miles of driving.

The viscous and fatty oil will also clog your injectors over time, requiring early maintenance in either having to clean them or replace them entirely. Injectors are not cheap and they are one of the only vital parts to a diesel engine. A misfiring injector will cause great amounts of pollution and excessive black smoke to come from your exhaust. This is unburned fuel passing through your engine.

Besides damaged injectors, the viscous vegetable oil will also strain your injection pump. This is probably the most expensive part of your engine. Viscous fluids put great amounts of stress on it and will definitely shorten its lifespan when used with cold vegetable oil or a blend of vegetable oil and other fuels to thin it. The cost to replace an injection pump greatly outweighs the savings on using a blend of vegetable oil and diesel.

Why you should not use gasoline in a diesel

Another poor thing about the “diesel secret” method is that it calls for the use of kerosene and gasoline as a thinner to the vegetable oil. You should only be using diesel to thin out your veggie if you do choose this method. DSE calls for these fuels in the recipe to trick you into thinking you are doing more than just thinning out the veggie oil. Afterall, it's a secret nobody knows about right?

The chemical formulas of both gasoline and kerosene are completely different from diesel and vegetable oil. Each carbon and hydrogen atom in a carbon chain needs a certain amount of oxygen to ignite. A typical diesel hydrocarbon has from 12 to 20 carbon atoms while gasoline only has 6-10 on average. Because of this, diesel requires a lot more air to fully combust than gasoline. Your diesel engine, which is specifically designed to run only on diesel, draws in a certain amount of air to combust diesel fuel. When you add a fuel which requires less air, you are wasting energy in compressing air that is not needed in the combustion process. The result: fuel efficiency loss and loss of power.

There is another even more crucial reason to not use other fuels such as gasoline in your diesel engine. The injectors in your diesel require lubricating fuel to operate. Diesel provides just enough lubrication for your injectors to operate properly. Even slight traces of gasoline in certain engines can damage injectors quickly from lack of lubrications. Another thing which can quickly damage your injectors is water. Water also lacks proper lubrication. Vegetable oil with water in it will damage your injectors quickly.

conclusion

In conclusion, do not use diesel secret’s fuel mixing method. The formula is set to trick you and the addtive you pay high dollars for does nothing. If you are not going to properly process vegetable oil into biodiesel or use a straight vegetable oil system to heat the vegetable oil so it is safe to use, at least don’t waste your money on diesel secret’s "formula". It is a scam and a waste of money.