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I know the WVO subject has been discussed here many times before, but I can't find anything about modifications for WVO use in our wehicles.
I see in other online resorces that people do different modifications to heat the veg oil before it enters the injection pump. I have a frient who has run old Mercedeses on veg for at least a decade, but when it's cold he sometimes must heat the filter with a hot-air gun to start his car. I dont have the patience for that
My Scudo is a 1997 1,9 turbodiesel. According to the papers it's a D8B, but it has a Bosch pump (lucky for me!), and on the pump body it is written XUD with large letters, and that's good enugh for me!
Here is my plan: I will buy a Mercedes-style filter holder for spinn-on filters from the breakers. Then i will buy one of these, eBay item number:281262299398, a silicione heat element with thermostat to wrap around the filter. I will control it with a switch inside the cabin, so I can switch it of if I run on diesel. The thermostat is supposed to cut at 65 degrees celsius, but I will add a temperature gage, just to be sure. I am considering a little boat fuel tank tucked away under the driver's seat, or in the back, with some sort of valve on the feed line, so I can start and stop on straight diesel. I don't thing I need to have a switch valve on the return, I will simply let the return run back to the regular tank all the time. In the manual, downloaded from this forum I saw that scudos with Lucas pump have a temperature regulated after-glow function, that keeps the glow plugs lit a while after start-up. Maybe I'll make a circuit like that, but controlled with a switch rather that a thermostat.
What do the experts say? Does it sound like a plan? Or, like we say in my country, does it sound like a plane? 

Hello there! I own a 1997 Fiat Scudo. The rear axle was corroded beyond repair, and I was looking for a replacement for quit a long time. I finally found a Citroen Jumpy (the stupid name the norwegian Citroen dealership gave the Dispatch) at the breakers with an axle in descent condition. It was a newer car (aprox. 2003), so I wasn't sure that the axle was identical, manufacturers tend to change stuff during the lifespan of a model. I took the essential measurments from my old axle and measured on the donor car before removing the axle, everything looked identical. Back home I de-rusted and paited it and pressed in new bushes. The axle went on the car and fitted perfectly except... The ride hight! When unloaded, the wheels sits like the car was fully loaded. It seemed like the shocks were too short. So I went and got the measuring tape again and found that the lower shock mounting sits aprox. 15-20 mm lower on the "new" axle, compared to the old one. So I thought to my self: "Aha! I just need to get later type shocks, they are probably longer!" I went online and seached with various parts suppliers, but it seemed like the entire Scudo/Dispatch/Expert mk1 range used the same type shocks in the rear all the way from start to the end, every one I found had a max lenght of 400 mm, more or less the same as on my car. The breaker where I found the donor vehichle is quite a long way from where I live, and I'm not ever shure iif the car still exist. I do not have access to any other mk1s for comparison. So, after my long story: What shall I do? What are the differences on the rear suspension between early and later models mk1, except the position of the lower shock mounting? The top of the rear shocks tilt quite a lot bacwards, so if I move the upper mount a bit forwards I can increase the effective lenght a bit, but is this the right way to do it? Someone must have had the same problem before? Help!