Is home heating oil not just red diesel? If so we ran millions of pound worth of vehicles on the stuff for years in the quarry with no ill effect. Lots of lorry drivers used to run on it til caught not to mention farmers and agricultural vehicles. Opps, I mentioned them.
Correct as you go down the scale as in a lighter flued, 35 red/white with more oil and additives in it, 28 has much less oil and burns cleaner, but there is a oil added to it which is ment to save pumps, but it should not be used in a auto engine unless oiled up, 20 ltrs 28 sec and 1 and a half litres of cooking oil for older diesels, lots did it here before the advent of common rail diesels, some will run on it but others not to good.
If you fit them correctly using the metal mounting plate provided, then the exhaust joint is outside.
Why would you want to run it on Kerosene when it is designed to run on diesel which is much easier to obtain?
Diesel engines will run on any oil that the injectors can atomise. The first diesel engine was run on peanut oil!
I ran my transit for years on Soya oil from Bookers wholesale for years (£9.99 for 20 litres) with no problems at all. Old style mechanical diesel pumps/systems won't have any trouble with virtually any refined oil but modern electronic systems will soon fail. As for kerosene cleaning out the combustion chamber, I'd like to see the need for it, I've never had to decoke one of these heaters ever!
Depends doesn't it.
Some engines/pumps are designed to be Bio compatible - the older VWs are (and are labelled as such)
If if is a Landrover, who knows if it was the veg oil that did it or not - usually a race to what fails first
This is one of the problems with typically the Chinese Heaters in smaller vans like the VW Transporters.... a 2kW heater is as big as you would really ever want to go, but there is a tendency for people to get bigger as they are the same price (hey, bigger for same money. got to be a better deal!?) and the heaters are never run hot for any length of time and so coke up as you say.
Be careful, I ordered a diesel night heater through wish paid for it but recieved a 12volt plug in for the dash took a while to get my refundHello all and Happy New year to you all!
I have decided to.purchase the above soon in the hope that we may eventually be able to do some wilding during the winter months.
For reasons of space, noise and extra safety I have decided to fit this externally to out 2011 Transit van ( currently under conversion). However looking at the various external metal mounting boxes available the prices seem prohibitive, most being more than the heater unit itself. So I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts or experience of making this box from wood? My first thoughts would be safety dye to heat from the unit.
Any thoughts, ideas, or experience would be gratefully received.
Thank you.
Coli .
NEVER buy from wish full of rip-offs on the listing i bet it showed the diesel heater and type a b etc whichever you chose would be the worth £2 electric heater .Plenty on ebay or amazon around £80
I guess if you're running it successfully and without damage on kero, that's fair enough. The say it also burns hotter.I do and it runs on kero, there is a similar pump on all home boilers and there is a clean burn lub put in to 28 sec.
To keep you happy put a small amount of sinthetic two stroke oil in tank or a drop of cooking oil, folk love the smell of chips cooking.
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the trouble is many people don't have that experience or equipment all these heaters get very hot at the exhaust joint near the heater especially if there is a bend in it, the pipe even the very expensive stuff becomes very brittle and will split very easily some might not notice this and end up in trouble. the fact is the all in one units are not designed for use in vehicles or suitable, I'm also on the chinese heater forum where we are constantly advising people about this.