chickenpot
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Hi everyone. Been lurking for a while after grabbing a 1991 f350 dually 5spd cab+chassis for pretty much the price of the drivetrain. Drove it home 3 hours. Anyway have a few good sources for clean WVO, want to run my truck on it.
Little bit of background- I work as a food service equipment tech and have an extremely large junkyard of old equipment, in particular countless "frymaster" style cooking oil filters/pumps/heaters. Cooking oil transfer pumps of many styles, gerotor, driven gear, the little nylon ball ones... almost all mounted to AC motors- pumps specifically designed for filtering and moving around 250+ degree oil at a 100% duty cycle.
My idea is somewhat straightforward- I want to use one of these waste oil pump bodies as the circulating/lift pump on a 2 tank system, driven off the engine v-belt. I have seen people experimenting with power steering pumps for this purpose but not exactly what I am thinking. My truck is a non-AC model, so it has a dual groove PS pulley, and gobs of engine bay/ accessory drive space in that area. The idea is to run a stout gear pump off the v belt using a 12v clutch witch a standard keyed bore(https://coastalhyd.com/pitts-10881-electric-clutch/) and couple it via lovejoy or chain inside a fabbed bracket.
The problem that I am wondering about is how to regulate the fuel pressure town to mech lift pump levels and have a bypass return. Would some of the return style fuel pressure regulators found on summit hold up to the task, or do i risk pushing too much pressure through them using basically a hydraulic pump? Does anyone know of any kind of stout return style "fuel" regulators (or hydraulic oil pressure bypass solutions) that may be implemented in this instance? Hoping to have a creative discussion regarding this topic, not many people around understand this strange desire that inflicts those who find their way to this site.
Cheers
Little bit of background- I work as a food service equipment tech and have an extremely large junkyard of old equipment, in particular countless "frymaster" style cooking oil filters/pumps/heaters. Cooking oil transfer pumps of many styles, gerotor, driven gear, the little nylon ball ones... almost all mounted to AC motors- pumps specifically designed for filtering and moving around 250+ degree oil at a 100% duty cycle.
My idea is somewhat straightforward- I want to use one of these waste oil pump bodies as the circulating/lift pump on a 2 tank system, driven off the engine v-belt. I have seen people experimenting with power steering pumps for this purpose but not exactly what I am thinking. My truck is a non-AC model, so it has a dual groove PS pulley, and gobs of engine bay/ accessory drive space in that area. The idea is to run a stout gear pump off the v belt using a 12v clutch witch a standard keyed bore(https://coastalhyd.com/pitts-10881-electric-clutch/) and couple it via lovejoy or chain inside a fabbed bracket.
The problem that I am wondering about is how to regulate the fuel pressure town to mech lift pump levels and have a bypass return. Would some of the return style fuel pressure regulators found on summit hold up to the task, or do i risk pushing too much pressure through them using basically a hydraulic pump? Does anyone know of any kind of stout return style "fuel" regulators (or hydraulic oil pressure bypass solutions) that may be implemented in this instance? Hoping to have a creative discussion regarding this topic, not many people around understand this strange desire that inflicts those who find their way to this site.
Cheers