Re: Getting cold this week, check your blend!

If you are going to go through the trouble of a secondary fuel tank, than you ought to be running SVO anyway (which is exactly what you do to run SVO).

----- Original Message ----
From: Stephen Pahl <[email protected]>
To: General Biodiesel discussion <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 1:13:28 PM
Subject: Re: [pdx-biodiesel] Getting cold this week, check your blend!


I've been reading the Biodiesel mail for awhile (the problem dealing  
with gelling)
? what be the problem with having a secondary tank (1-2 gal) with  
diesel(formula that doesn't gell) and a fuel line and tank heater  
supplied from the water coolant system through a splitter valve that  
can be manually operated.
Would there be a design problem or reason that it wouldn't work.

Stephen Pahl
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On Jan 12, 2007, at 10:03 AM, Jeff Brandt wrote:

> On 1/10/07, Jerry McIntire <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On Jan 9, 2007, at 6:26 PM, Jeff Brandt wrote:
>>
>> >  Of course nothing really helps you from gelled fuel lines.
>>
>> If you need to get going, you can try what I did in Colorado one
>> morning when I woke up to about 14 degrees.  The Mercedes had metal
>> fuel lines.  I put an electric space heater under the hood, blowing
>> directly on the fuel lines and fuel filter, for 30 minutes.  At the
>> second try, it started and I continued on my way to Portland.  Once
>> it was running for a few minutes the warm return line fuel kept it
>> flowing.
>
> The other night I filled my tank all the way with B99 (24 gal) in
> hopes that if it gelled, it would only gel the outside walls of the
> tank.
>
> Well this morning when I got up it was 21F, I decided not to try
> starting my car right away. I waited until 9:30am when the temp was up
> to 24F and the car did start. I waited for it to warm up and things
> were looking good. Then it started to buck ...
>
> The fuel in the filter was obviously liquid, but the fuel in the lines
> was to think for the lift pump and it quickly lost power and
> eventually quit.
>
> The temp is supposed to go up today, so I'll try again at noon, and my
> best bet is 2:00pm. Of course I looked at the weather for tonight and
> it is scheduled to be 12F (wow).
>
> I really didn't want to put diesel in my car..... looks like I'll
> either need to drive the work truck and wait or bite the bullet and
> put some diesel in my tank at 2pm.
>
> --
> Jeff Brandt
> Sun Break Biofuels, LLC
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