First post in alternative fuel forum so please bare with me.
Some things about me and my truck. I live in Chicago where we can see temps above 100F in the summer and -20F in the winter. I have an FJ60 converted to a 1HDT and I love it. My truck has a Webasto Top C installed it will heat up the block after 20 minutes and start up like its summer time when temps are well below freezing.
I'd like to run B50 in my truck all year without additives or other types of fuel. My wife hates the smell of straight diesel and thinks I'm slowly killing my kids. I'd like to keep the truck so I proposed switching to bio for a less toxic/better smelling exhaust and she is on-board.
I don't make biodiesel and don't plan to. Loyola University in Chicago has a student run program sponsored by the school that makes B100 and will deliver it to your door in 55 gallon drums. It's not as cheap as making it myself but I'm not ready for that at this point.
Plan would be to keep the B100 in my heated garage at 50 degrees F so storage is not an issue. The perceived issue is keeping the truck up and running in any temp while running B50 all the time.
This is my half baked plan at this point...Install a 3 gallon auxiliary tank which will hold straight diesel and run the Webasto (Webasto says the Top C should run no more than B20). Design a coolant heat loop that will run in parallel with the fuel lines and insulate them together so that the fuel lines are heated by contact with the coolant hose. Figure out a way to use the coolant to heat the fuel filter and gas tank as well. Utah Biodiesel Supply sells a fuel filter head that has a coolant loop and there is a coolant fed battery warming heat exchanger that may work nicely on the bottom of the tank. This system would be preheated by the Webasto unit. The entire loop goes through the cabin heater so it will be closed in the summer when the heat controller is set to 'cold'.
Given that I'm a total newbie to biodiesel please tell me why this is a good/bad/necessary/unnecessary idea. What am I not thinking about? What am I missing?
Some things about me and my truck. I live in Chicago where we can see temps above 100F in the summer and -20F in the winter. I have an FJ60 converted to a 1HDT and I love it. My truck has a Webasto Top C installed it will heat up the block after 20 minutes and start up like its summer time when temps are well below freezing.
I'd like to run B50 in my truck all year without additives or other types of fuel. My wife hates the smell of straight diesel and thinks I'm slowly killing my kids. I'd like to keep the truck so I proposed switching to bio for a less toxic/better smelling exhaust and she is on-board.
I don't make biodiesel and don't plan to. Loyola University in Chicago has a student run program sponsored by the school that makes B100 and will deliver it to your door in 55 gallon drums. It's not as cheap as making it myself but I'm not ready for that at this point.
Plan would be to keep the B100 in my heated garage at 50 degrees F so storage is not an issue. The perceived issue is keeping the truck up and running in any temp while running B50 all the time.
This is my half baked plan at this point...Install a 3 gallon auxiliary tank which will hold straight diesel and run the Webasto (Webasto says the Top C should run no more than B20). Design a coolant heat loop that will run in parallel with the fuel lines and insulate them together so that the fuel lines are heated by contact with the coolant hose. Figure out a way to use the coolant to heat the fuel filter and gas tank as well. Utah Biodiesel Supply sells a fuel filter head that has a coolant loop and there is a coolant fed battery warming heat exchanger that may work nicely on the bottom of the tank. This system would be preheated by the Webasto unit. The entire loop goes through the cabin heater so it will be closed in the summer when the heat controller is set to 'cold'.
Given that I'm a total newbie to biodiesel please tell me why this is a good/bad/necessary/unnecessary idea. What am I not thinking about? What am I missing?