Drum / filter bag setup? - Steel Soldiers::Military Vehicles Supersite

number9 · 11-01-2009, 22:12

Been reading lots of threads about using WMO for fuel in the Deuce. We have a OTR tractor pulling dropdecks and I've been wanting to start doing the oil changes myself to save money and stay in touch with the truck health but I haven't had any good idea of what to do with 12 gallon of WMO - until now

I don't think the volume of WMO I'd have over the course of a year would really justify the expense of a centrifuge right now. I figured between the big truck and our two vehicles I'd maybe have 440 gallon over a year. I think I worked out the math of filling the Deuce 50/50 with WMO and diesel would be about 17 tank fulls. I'd rather stick to using my own WMO so I have a better idea of what's in it as opposed to bulk WMO from some shop with who knows what in it.

Been reading about the filter bags. WOuld something like this pic below work okay for using WMO in the fuel for the Deuce mixed 50/50 with diesel?

I'd have to make some kind of hanger for the filter bags down inside a 55 gal drum (or other size drum). Then pour the oil in and let it run through all 3 filters to the bottom of the drum and out a drain into a 5 gallon (or whatever size) bucket to pour into the Deuce fuel tank.

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southdave · 11-01-2009, 23:16

gravity sucks- I run it 15 micron screen than though 10 micron fuel fitler that change out about every 200 gal . figure that what the truck filters handel.

scrapman · 11-02-2009, 17:43

I would cut the WMO with 1/3 diesel to help the flow through the socks. This is the ultimate in simplicity & low cost. I would change the micron levels to 25-15-5 this would help to speed the processing while still producing a good product. In my own use I have drained motor oil into a clean pan and put it directly into the fuel tank with no ill effects. 3 years & 25K miles.

CGarbee · 11-03-2009, 09:30

I use a commercial light duty filter bag setup at 5 microns and pump the oil through it. Cut it 50/50 in the summer, about 25/75 in the winter for use in my NHC250 powered trucks.

Unit I use is:
100XB Filter Housing w/Stand at F2F Filtration Units (didn't purchase from these folks, but they have a nice description of the unit and some other interesting looking stuff on thier site.)

srodocker · 01-11-2010, 17:36

im also interested as i just came into a nice supply of continuous WMO from my uncles work.

Im also trying to figure out if i go on a long trip with a cpl 55 gal barrels in the back of the deuce, i can suck it up and into the tank with a hand pump of a sort and then put the diesel in afterwords? does it need to be mixed at all?

cbvet · 01-11-2010, 21:33

IMHO it won't work without pressure to force the oil through the filters. Especially the 1 micron!
Well, with thinning you might get a gallon a day at first.

srodocker · 01-11-2010, 21:47

my grandpa said use a hemp rope...

cbvet · 01-11-2010, 22:04

srodocker- Was he smokin' that rope? Just kidding.
Someone on here tried the "rope trick", and it just didn't work.

srodocker · 01-11-2010, 22:41

ahhh okie dokes

Westex · 01-13-2010, 22:38

Well, this thread got me talking to some guys in south Texas, and I ran across some information whereby a man has a pole with hooks on it and he hangs, of all things, blue jeans that he recovers from flea markets and what not. Ties the legs off and then sets another pair of tied off jeans inside this. Puts a barrel under the legs and pours in waste oil, whatever. He apparently has access to lots of waste oil and waste veg oil. He has been doing this for 5 years now, and (are you ready for this) he runs it through a 7.3 Ford one ton. Been doing it for said 5 years. He does dilute with diesel in ratios appropriate for the temperature.

Point being: if he has had this kind of success for this length of time, then one must assume that we could run this kind of fuel in our multifuels with no worry. Leads me to wonder what the micro filtration of blue jeans is. Good enough for a straight diesel pump::well good enough for a multifuel pump.