Originally Posted by
Isaac.Hunt
Also, again, despite what has been said above, the Lucas-CAV fuel pumps found on 99% (if not all) TD Mondeos are NOT suitable for straight vegetable oil - their weakness when it comes to high viscosity fluids such as vegetable oil is well documented.
Any that survive SVO or any other high viscosity fuel is down to good luck.
Gotta disagree with you there as my mk2 mondy td had a lucas pump and I did over 25k on veg oil - some of it used veg oil and some of new. Never had any problems and I even drove through the Breacon Beacons in it.
I agree however that the Bosch pumps are better suited as my mates 150 quid escort is still going.