PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum - View Single Post - I Flipped the switch today! (WVO Conversion)

pawoSD · #16 09-05-2005, 07:28 PM

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Originally Posted by NickL

Is there a pump or filter in the stock Diesel fuel tank? I wanted to keep it as simple as possible, so I am looking for really clean oil to filter well and then just put in the stock tank if it would work. Maybe I'd add an electric block heater to the tank and heat the oil up with house power before driving.

It seems with all the extra under hood area behind the headlights, you could put in a 3-5gal tank under hood and it'd be really easy to heat with coolant.

Would it make any sense to heat the oil with on board electricity and turn off the heater after the oil was warm? I wonder if there are any good 12v heaters that would get oil to 170 degrees.

Thank You,
Nick

Thats what I am planning on doing, and I will run a short heat-exchange type setup to it too, probably just a length of copper tubing inside my tank at the bottom of it, spliced in via the same places Andy did to obtain coolant, shouldn't be all that difficult....plus I'd be able to use it in the winter, especially with my hose-block heater, it keeps the coolant at nearly 70C!! I could switch to veg in no time one I started it. All I need is that pollak valve and some hardware......I don't want to deal with installing a huge trunk tank like that as of yet....as a 2-3 gallon under-the-hood dealy would be plenty good for the amount of driving I do 85% of the time. I'd probably even implement a "Low WVO" light into the dash by mounting a standard coolant expansion tank "float" switch into my WVO container, and I could make a "LOW VEG" piece that fits into one of the blank dash indicator slots.

Once that went on I'd know I had to switch back to diesel within 10 miles or so.

(I'd put it about 2" from the bottom of the container....

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