IME, Should start cold on grease, glo or no, especially in this weather (if you are in the northern hemisphere), unless your compression is gone. Sounds like fuel starvation, maybe:
1) Solid fuel, unlikely unless you have a cube of lard out back. PHO (partially hydrogenated oil) will start to gel around room temp.
2) Clogged filter- 1 pass of a sheet is a good prefilter, I would by no means stop there. People usually filter through a sheet before going through a 100 or a 50 micron mesh. Filtering in the 2-10 micron range is more typical. I think the canister filter is 5 micron. You've probably stopped everything that your sheet didn't with the filter under the hood.

Frybrid.com has records of what used to be a really active forum. I'd change my filters, fill up w/ diesel and read over the filtration section. I'd say the most basic & effective filtration setup is called a 'cold upflow' filtration setup.

As far as fuel temp. Research I've seen cited shows improvements in emmisions & power at fuel temp of 160+ *F.

A good book on the topic is Forrest Greg's 'SVO' ~$10-$12 on amazon. This sites the research I've mentioned.

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I've seen oil stored over 1 year that smelled fine and was good to use. If it's clean, water free and in an airtight container, it will last and last.

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mine is mixed with 50% diesel,and stablizer.

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I have seen pics of that done by relocating the windshield washer tank, not sure if it was a w123 or w126. But it won't be very practical. Keeping a two litre tank topped up will be a pain.

On sedans I have seen pics of people just using small marine tanks in the trunk, but that is less practical on a wagon.

Most important you need more heat than that kit provides. At minimum you need to add wrap heaters to your hard injector lines.

I looked at that kit and frankly I have a big issue with them selling that to someone who lives in NJ. In the ad copy it states it's for use in areas that never fall below 40 degrees. I am not an expert but I would say 40 is optimistic for a single tank system like that to work.

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The kit is working great for right now on an 80/20 mixture of WVO to diesel. I would ultimately like to find a way to heat it further, but I was thinking when it gets colder I can just change the ratio and add more diesel to the mixture and it should be ok? I think? I live in NJ and in the winter even when it's 10* out the glow plugs come on for about 6 seconds and the car fires up on all diesel.

I just wrote a longwinded reply to someone else on this stuff. Check out post 11 here:

1983 240D Greasecar New Owner Questions

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2002 e320 4matic estate│1985 300d│1980 300td
Previous: 1979 & 1982 & 1983 300sd │ 1982 240d

“Let's take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.” ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22