Plumbing
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
I installed the tank and connected all the hoses. Where you see that brass hex-nut is the hose-in-hose arrangement. Most of the tanks weight is supported by 7/16 bolts, the tabs on the side keep it from shifting and were riveted in with SS pop rivets. I put a slit down the middle of some pex tubing and installed it around the parking brake line so that it wouldn't rub on the tank.
Labels: Diesel Scout, Hose-In-Hose, Tank, WVO conversion
Hose-In-Hose
Monday, March 10, 2008
The compression fittings have to be drilled out with a 3/8 drill to allow the 3/8 OD aluminum fuel line to pass through. The one with my grubby fingers on it still has its stock brass stop inside and the other one has been drilled out.
A 3/4 inch barb can be threaded with a 1/2 fpt die. I loaded it with Teflon tape and cranked the the compression fitting home.
The whole idea with doing it this way (instead of getting a FPT tee and screwing all the fittings in) is you save a lot of space in the tight spots where these are going and you save a lot of dough.
Labels: Diesel Scout, Hose-In-Hose, WVO conversion
Fat Cat
Friday, February 29, 2008
Here is the Racor 1000 series filter with some tightly wound PEX tubing surrounding the housing to transfer heat from the engine coolant to the filter. I will continue to wind more tape around it and then finish it off with some heat insulation. Below the filter are two hose-in-hose fittings. The bigger one, on the left, has a shark bite fitting to connect right to the pex. The smaller one, for the rear end of the hose-in-hose by the Veggie tank, has barb fittings for regular heater hose that will connect to the tank heater. I used a 1/2" thread die to cut threads on the barbed tee to attach the fpt swagelok compression fitting.
Labels: Filter Heater, Hose-In-Hose, Racor Filter
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