Pouring Fuel Oil

Park truck in heated space. Wait for oil temperature to equalize with air temp.

"Has anyone been to the moon?"

(Rossie O'Donnell already asked this question before you.) But if you really want to know,

Yeah, Maybe it was Yuri Gagarin or was it the same guy that flew one of those airplanes on 9/11?. 'Cause it couldn't simply be just a American born and raised!

Wangito.

Strive to be original next time...

Wangito,

Please re-visit your second, forth, sixth and tenth commandments for the CR4 user.

http://cr4.globalspec.com/thread/6515

I would like to hear from you again when you get back from your ego trip.

Ace.

look at a gear pump running off the PTO.

Where are you at that fuel oil won't pour in winter?

Thats cold to hit the gel point.

If your tank can be pressurized air pressure may help. If you don't know don't try it.

Brad

Depends in part on how much time you have.

You could paint the truck tank black or otherwise make it dark to absorb solar hear. This might thin the oil enough to pump/siphon (say) with an impeller type tool.

Raed:

While driving my VW diesel Rabbit in Vermont (on my honeymoon) I learned that, in New England, diesel fuel is "winterized" by mixing it with kerosene to keep it from gelling. Gasoline is a usable substitute diluent in a pinch. I would think that heating oil must get the same treatment, because many storage tanks are outdoors. Good luck.

DickL

If you mean Diesel oil, just replace the complete Diesel filter unit with one with a 12 (or 24) volt heating element, that comes on when the engine starts (supplies current) and the outside temperature is below 4°C.

There are also pre-warmers that you fit a few centimeters before the filter and you insulate the line to stop it cooling again before it goes into the filter.

The problem is paraffin particles blocking the filter element from letting the diesel through.

Using a up to a 5% lead free Petrol to mix is ok for an emergency only as it wears the diesel pump out.....petrol does not lubricate as well as Diesel does.....

Andy,

"If you mean Diesel oil, just replace "

In his place nobody really knows what's in that truck... less, why it jells .

I know I have been there...

Wangito.

He was not specific and although the winter can get quite cold where he is, especially up in the mountains, to my mind, he must have been talking about the diesel in the tank..

.......which is why I posed the question at the beginning......you did understand that? No, then read it again, it is quite clear English, no need even for a High School Diploma I think....!!!

If it was something else eg. not Diesel, then the recommendation did not apply.....there that was not so bad was it?

Logical!! or laughable, which ever way you wish!!

Andy,

You, I understand and always understood perfectly... (no diploma needed)

It's our poster's problem not to specify what sort of fuel he is talking about... and even if he would have said what it is, he still wouldn't know because..... (read my previous post...)

Wangito.

Perhaps he will come back and define his problem in a more professional manner!! Perhaps!!

the problem is when exporting oil from Iraq to Jordan by trucks , ( each one have the capacity of 36000 liters more than 100 per weeks) . These trucks wait for few days in open area to unload ,and because of low temp in winter (about 5 deg C) the oil not pour .

My company is working on that issue for our northern pipeline. We are developing a machine that infuses either diesel or carbon dioxide into the heavy crude to make it more pumpable. Otherwise you can use steam in pipes to warm it up, provided from the refinery.

In Canada we're used to water being below the pour point temperature. We break it up with picks & shovel it.