Spin on heated fuel filter for Hj60?

[Dogsled]

Ok, it's mid-August, and a good Labradorian's mind begins to turn to the fall...ah, the fishing, hunting and plugging in of the Cruiser at night so it will start in the morning...

To that end, does anyone have any experience with spin-on replacement fuel filters (Racor or other brands) that would fit an HJ-60?

 

[Dogsled]

make that a heated fuel filter...

sorry...I mean spin-on, replacement HEATED fuel filters that fit an HJ-60...

 

[brownbear]

I haven't heard of one that sits in the same spot. doesn't mean it doesn't exsist tho.

since yur familiar with racor, I would suggest just adding a another filter before the sotck filter for extra protection. or getting the kindof heaters that attach with a spring clamp and you wire them in.

like a little heating pad. I got three on the plane I work on. 24 v too.

is the biodiesel hard to run in the cold?

 

[Eric Winkworth]

your cruiser shouldn't have problems starting in the winter, although a block heater is nice for not having cold starts, it should start no problem, maybe it is just the 24v's on my rig I dunno.

 

[Dogsled]

Straight biodiesel clouds around 5ºC, and gets worse from there. Going to 80% dino-diesel helps to a point, but biodiesels in cold weather need a bit of help. I've got the standard 24V superglow, plus a block heater + inline coolant heater. Having the option to heat the fuel seems like a good one just on principle...all the big rigs up here have that kind of a set-up, and would probably extend the period I can run biodiesel. I'm also looking forward to those fine dark winter days when the temps up here are in the neg fourties (I'll be running straight dino-diesel then!) and thinking that such set-up would do some good there, too!

 

[Technikev]

In the past I have purchased and used a fuel filter that I think was Racor, but am not sure. It is not a filter replacement, but an additional filter to augment the factory filtration.

It was quite a nice system as it was a sort of modular collection of parts that would work together with the user adding only the modules they needed.

You started with the base which had the ports for fuel lines and accessories like fuel heaters. There were four "ports" as I recall. Two for fuel in/out and two others for accessories. You could also attach a manual pump for priming the filter or fuel system after filter changes or other maintenance. You could also fit a clear glass bowl so that you could see your fuel and any visual contaminants like water. The filters themselves were also ready available from a variety of sources such as your local friendly John Deere dealer or Cat or Cummins, etc.

-Kevin

 

[Eric Winkworth]

sorry guys didn't realize you were talking about bio diesel~!