What do you think about my Winter fuel tank. - Diesel Forum

asnowsquall · 11-17-2005, 01:46 PM

I'm building a tank that has the filter and fuel pump inside it. The filter housing is heated internaly with coolant and the fuel tank will be heated internaly with coolant also using the baseboard hot water pipe. Originally I planed for it to be only 6 gallons. This will be closer to 13. Figured it was OK to be a little bigger, then just put less fuel in it if it doesn't heat up as fast as I want. I'm going to use 2"-3" thick ploystyrean on the outside as long as it doesn't melt. It will also have sometype of 120 volt and 12V heat so I can plug it in. I want the thing to heat up fast, so I can run the partially hydro stuff you see in the picture. If the filter works good I may buy a cleanable SS filter. I think this will work good. Any ideas would be great!
Thanks,
Dave

soulpatchfr · 11-17-2005, 02:05 PM

i like it. i'll be following your project, Dave.
and here are the links:
pic one
pic two

forgive my ignorance, please... you plan on dumping WVO into this tank, correct? then letting it filter / heat on-the-go... [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shrug.gif[/img]
very cool - i'd like something like this for my WMO.

asnowsquall · 11-17-2005, 03:25 PM

I'll be dumping filtered and dewatered WVO oil in it. I haven't decided on if I'll make a small door on top so that I could slap the thick pasty junk in. I just want something to heat up fast! The true test will be the partially hydroginzed stuff when the truck is down around zero. The rest of my system is HIH and if there is any small place that hasn't got coolant heating I'll use electric heat. May even heat my Frybrid valves.