from the instructions: "heat is supplied only when the temperature is low enough
for wax particles to form. Power supply is to from an automotive type 12 VDC battery
with an alternator system."
So it must have a temp sensor that switches it on and off - neat.
"Locate a 12 volt wire (off and on with ignition switch) on a circuit able to handle the extra 7.5 amps that the heater will require."
Suggestions on the back for many makes, but not Mercedes - all but one suggests 12 VDC source as Electrical shutoff lead on injection pump. For Toyota a specific terminal in the fusebox.
Hmm...wonder where it should go an a W126 MB?
The point isn't to heat the fuel so it combusts better but to heat the fuel as it starts to get wax crystals at cloud point. It rarely gets that cold here, and when it does, a spritz of GE-Betz OTR8932Q is the cheapest and best way to handle it. This will do nothing to help you start your car. If you don't treat your fuel and the lines and the tank gel up, this will not help. If the fuel clouds, but does not gel, it won't help starting much either, but WILL keep it running once started (wax won't clog filter, it will be melted by this thing).
Hmm - Nifty device, but I would MUCH prefer it warm the fuel not at the cloud point of diesel BUT AT THE FREEZING POINT OF WATER...becuase emulsified water particles will freeze and clog your filter too. I'm MUCH more worried about that.
Hmm - It could be rigged up to do that automatically...or you could bypass the timer entirely and put a switch on the dash and turn it on when it's below freezing or somehow change it to come on at 32, BUT THEN, it will be supplying heat as if it were at the cloud point (much colder) which will be WAY too much heat...maybe even enough to start a fire.
BTW, WHERE are you? If it is regularly below freezing in winter...IA or north, even its nice in MO, GET A BLOCK HEATER AND FORGET ABOUT ALL THE OTHER GIZMOS - UNLESS it';s REALLY REALLY cold where you live, you don't need in-line fuel heaters, in-line coolant heaters and a block heater. That's for North Dakota and Alaska...maybe Minnesota, IMH&RUO (IR=relatively & U=uninformed).
Chris
Zoltan Finks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Congrats on Wulf.
This fuel heater. Sheesh another thing to think about. I would love to
install a block heater before too long, but a fuel heater I had not given
much thought to. Warm diesel fuel combusts better I'm assuming? Resulting in
easier starts? Isn't it true that gasoline combusts better or more
efficiently if cooler?
Does it run on a timer? Or just when the key is turned? Runs off battery
power I assume, as opposed to AC?
Brian
83 240D
On 3/9/06, Christopher McCann wrote:
$105....some labor, some washers, a BOLT, and some bushings (on the brake
torsion bar). Not a creek, clank, clunk, click, or squeal. After replacing
all the ball joints and now finally securing the brake torsion bar, she
sounds JUST LIKE NEW on every bump, ramp and dip. A beautiful thing.
Indy gave me a free Stanadyne in-line diesel fuel heater (it's new
in box, but old, he has a TON of them: auto temp sensing, heats fuel
prior to engine start). Haven't looked at the instructions - obviously
goes BEFORE fuel filter. I live in MO, not MN...but I guess it can't
hurt. Any thoughts?
I figured if there was any interest on the list and since he has
"TONS" of them, maybe we can buy a qty in builk for dirt cheap? That's
if they're worth the trouble.
Thanks all,
Christopher McCann, Squier Park, Kansas City, Missouri
-2005 Blue Point Siamese, "Rose"
-1992 Volkswagen Golf, diesel, 185K km, "Nanook"
-1987 300TD, 151K, "Rotkäppchen"
-1985 300SD, 212K, "Wulf"
-1976 240D, ?K, "AKP-Wagen" (Alternativen Kraftstoffs Prüfenlastwagen)
-1972 Jacobsen 21" Turbo Vent
-1971 Case 222 Hydrive, 12HP Kohler, 38" deck, Snowcaster, "One Banger"
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-2005 Blue Point Siamese, "Rose"
-1992 Volkswagen Golf, diesel, 185K km, "Nanook"
-1987 300TD, 151K, "Rotkäppchen"
-1985 300SD, 212K, "Wulf"
-1976 240D, ?K, "AKP-Wagen" (Alternativen Kraftstoffs Prüfenlastwagen)
-1972 Jacobsen 21" Turbo Vent
-1971 Case 222 Hydrive, 12HP Kohler, 38" deck, Snowcaster, "One Banger"
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