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Re: Where to grab coolant from engine
Thanks for the reply, Blue Mule.
As one who deals with process flow rates and such, I'm well aware of surface area of hoses. I still can't understand Greasel and thers using 1/2" for coolant. Its amazing the difference each 1/8" increase in hose/pipe size makes.
We up-sized to a 3/4" heater hose for the WVO coolant heat loop... no HIH. We fabricated a HOH wrapped with insulation.
I planned to use 1/2" alum. tubing for fuel supply and return plus 3/4" copper tubing for coolant supply and return, wrapped with pipe insulation. The only place we could create a straight run with this was from in front of the fuel tank to the 6-port fuel selector. Its about five feet so its worthwhile. Unfortunately, we ran out of time during this installation. My friend was in from out of state and we had very limited time.
My buddy called from home today and said he is getting some pretty good heat now. We also forgot to ground the brass T into which we installed a temp sending unit so his WVO temp gauge isn't working yet.
Where do you return the coolant? We added a T in the hose from the heater core back to the water pump. I wondered if the flow coming from the heater core was great enough to effectively shut down the flow returning from the WVO heating loop.
Thanks for your help.
Todd
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2002 F-250 Lariat, PSD, CC, short bed, 3.73, auto tranny, Line-X bed liner, AFE Filter, HX crossover, intake heater delete, Evans NGC+, Dieselsite 203 thermostat, coolant filter, Amsoil by-pass filter, Schaeffer's synthetic blend tranny fluid, Bob Riley's tranny filter, Velvet Ride shackles, Rancho 9000 shocks with in-cab adjustment, 60 gallon aux tank for burning heated WVO, burning veggie since fall of '04.
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