Zee master plan....

[The patriot]

Well I made my own heat coil for the transfer flow tank so that I can run WVO I've been collecting.

I can see why people charge a lot of $$$ for so called "conversions".

Mucho time is in this, and not a lot of $$$.

Since my fuel level sender was shot in the TF, I pulled it out, and it made more room for the coil.

The coil. Man... where do I start. I'd suggest that if anyone was to do this themselves to get a LOT of extra coil to practice with. I used a whole 20' coil section of soft aluminum to come up with what I used. A simple U shaped piece about 16" deep. #@$%!

I've got a seriously nice coiled section that I hoped to put in the tank. I'm really proud of it, but there was no way I could get that in there no matter how hard I tried. :{ Anyone building a still? Even the simple U shape was a &^%$* to get in there. I could have opened up the hole in the tank a little, but there was still about 1" of fuel, and I didnt want to put all those shavings down in my fuel.

I cut two holes in the pickup/return line assy to put two "through the hull" fittings in to hold the in and out sides of the coil. I looked all over and could not find weldless fittings. The through the hull fittings will work for me, I have a cap, so I shouldnt get much if any water on top of the tank.

I also used 20' of 5/8" heater line and a few wire ties.

Oh yea, I added a 1000 watt "tank type" water heater I got off ebay just before the TF tank. To heat it up when I'm at home.

I wanted to put in 2 ball valves so I could isolate it if needed, but ran out of time. Maybe later.

 

[cj hall]

heated tanks

hello sir



sounds like you had fun putting in the loop in the tank. I have done two of them one cutting a big hole in the tank the easy way the next one was a loop from arctic fox tank heaters this was a hard one .



the biggest problem is the lack of room. the next tank an the drawing board is a 150 to 200 gallon tank heated with a coil of hot hater from the engine and like you a heater for at home heating off 120 volt. I will be building this so the coil will be installed before its welded up the easy way of doing the heat.



did you take any pictures of the install you did?



have fun running veg oil you will love it.



cj hall

 

[The patriot]

No I didnt take pics. I wish I thought to do so.
I couldnt bring myself to chop a hole in the TF tank, or I'd have used the coil that I bent.
I'll be topping off the tank tomorrow, I have to go to Pa on Sunday.
I'm trying to estimate how long I'll need to run the 1000 watt heater to get the WVO to temp. I have one day to figger it out. :-laf
I plumbed it so that it's about 4' before the fuel tank. Just under the front of the bed. It should give off good heat from that close I suppose. I also wanted to keep it low, so that it's always in water.
I have that line plumbed into the "hot" side of the heater lines, so that when it's running the oil will get the heat before the cab heater.
The return line from the tank then goes to the cab heat, then back to the engine.
I'm always hot anyway.
Oh yea, I also want to put a temperature gauge on my fuel supply line just before the lift pump. I want to get an idea on how the temp will be on the supply side.
If you have any ideas on where I can get one of those temp probe clamp things, I'd appreciate it. It's a mechanical gauge.
Eric