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Im startin my SVO conversion on my 96 Cummins 12v and i bought a kit and made all the tanks for filtering and storage. I've done a lot of researching o this and i keep coming up with a flaw in all of these designs for heating the vege oil.
Everybody reroutes the coolant lines for heating, which doesnt seem too complicated, but how long does it take to heat up your truck to operating temp on a 0 degree day? And the you have even more to heat with the vegetable oil. So what i was thinking is taking some cooper tubing and wrapping it around the downpipe. Then get a 12v water pump and small reservoir and run all of your lines to the tank and fuel lines. Then when you start up your truck, your exhaust is gonna come up to temp pretty quickly and heat up your vege oil that much faster.
Now the only problem i see with this is keeping the oil cool enough, i mean egt's are 1000 degrees and your pipe has to be a couple hundred less than that so your coolant is gonna get real hot. Does anybody have an idea on how to regulate it?
I know using the coolant lines would probably be easier, but where i live it gets real cold in the winter. I wnat to be able to use this year round and not have to wait a hour before the oil is liquid again.
Everybody reroutes the coolant lines for heating, which doesnt seem too complicated, but how long does it take to heat up your truck to operating temp on a 0 degree day? And the you have even more to heat with the vegetable oil. So what i was thinking is taking some cooper tubing and wrapping it around the downpipe. Then get a 12v water pump and small reservoir and run all of your lines to the tank and fuel lines. Then when you start up your truck, your exhaust is gonna come up to temp pretty quickly and heat up your vege oil that much faster.
Now the only problem i see with this is keeping the oil cool enough, i mean egt's are 1000 degrees and your pipe has to be a couple hundred less than that so your coolant is gonna get real hot. Does anybody have an idea on how to regulate it?
I know using the coolant lines would probably be easier, but where i live it gets real cold in the winter. I wnat to be able to use this year round and not have to wait a hour before the oil is liquid again.
