Goldwing: Does your setup filter the oil going in or out? How does it work? I like the theory of the setup, but I am kind of lost as to how it would operate.
It appears, to my non-engineering eye, that you can pump into the holding tank and out of it, by use of the gate valves.
Looks like you can pre-filter the waste oil going in, and finish filter the stuff coming out.
That's a nice setup, sure would like to do that here soon. I love driving the Deuce, but diesel is still around $3.50 per gallon here.
I figure the farmers here have lots of waste oil during planting and harvesting season, gonna have to go talk to some of my friends.
LC
How come you have a return going back to the tank? is that to relieve some of the pressure going to the filters?
I thought it was so he could cycle it through that first filter and then back into the tank.
Sorry I missed the front end of this conversation. I think it happened when I was banned or something.
Anyway, the setup in the pics worked thusly:
Oil was introduced into the syatem by dumping directly into the tank, via the 2" pipe on top of the tank.
Then oil was then circulated through the 30 micron filter and (using the gate valves, as LongueCarabine surmised) either returned back into the tank or pushed through the 10 micron filter and out to the vehicle (also used a pressure regulator since the HF pump doesn't like to be dead-headed).
Now... that being said, the system has gone through EXTENSIVE modification and rework in the past four months. Among the additions are a heater barrel (got nailed with some watery oil), a bag filter (the spin-ons were clogging too fast), a water separator and a direct suction line for drawing from 275-gallon totes or 55-gal barrels. The filters are also now all on the pressure side of the pump (mixed feelings on that).
If anybody is interested, I can take some more pics and go through all the details of the new system.
