This is a continuation of thread:
http://www.lostjeeps.com/forum/phpBB3/vie ... c&start=15
Reflex wrote:
A diesel is typically a half a million mile to million mile engine. 34k is not an appreciable sample size, even if a single owner could possibly be considered a representative sample.
As for studies, I have not claimed they exist for this engine publicly. As I said, a friend of mine worked on the engine, and I trust his results. I pass that info on and people can choose to heed it or not, their choice. I am not stating it authoritatively because the testing I am reffering to is not public(its military, actually).
Again, without knowing how rigorously the fuel was tested, what the base oils were, where it came from, etc. it's just hearsay (what does your friend know about BD?), akin to someone saying, "Rotella killed my motor!" Well, there are lots of factors that could contribute to such a thing. And again I say that bad dino diesel has killed a fair amount of motors too.
What exactly was his reason for how BD caused the failure? The BD should have been running through the same filters as dino so any particles should have been filtered out. As I mentioned before, if the refinery didn't remove all the glycerin that would definitely lead to problems but that's a refining problem (same thing would happen if a dino refinery left some tar or whatever in their #2) not a BD problem.
Bottom line is that you're correct in that there simply isn't enough useable data on BD to make any kind of accurate determination. It's my contention that most BD-related failures are due to quality issues but we'll just have to wait and see. If you don't want to risk it then that's cool, but don't go running around proclaiming we're all idiots for doing something that there isn't sufficient evidence to prove one way or ther other (want to talk about whether God exists?).
I'm not trying to be an stupid, I've just heard way too many "my uncle's cousin's sister used that soybean fuel and her truck blew up" stories for a lifetime.