Anyone using a fuel cooler on your bus I am getting ready to install mine and would like to hear the pros and cons thanks guys good luck
I'm looking for a fuel replicator for mine!
I'm looking for a FUEL DUPLICATOR for all of mine! LOL! ;D BK ;D
Does it come in a gas model ???
Bill
I'm lookin for fuel
Quote from: luvrbus on October 08, 2008, 03:54:03 PM
Anyone using a fuel cooler on your bus I am getting ready to install mine and would like to hear the pros and cons thanks guys good luck
I'm unfamiliar with anything that cools fuel. Is it for inlet or outlet?
Typically you only need a fuel cooler if you are running in hot weather, have a DDEC engine, and a small (under 50 gal) fuel tank. If you don't have these things, then I would not bother with another source of possible failure. I have a turbo 8V-71 and no fuel cooler. The key is to fill up no lower than 1/4 tank on hot days. None of our Freightliner trucks have fuel coolers. Good Luck, TomC
Clifford; go for the cooler it will help fwiw fuel when it gets above 90 degrees your HP will start to drop about 2% per every 10 degrees with the new fuel it wasn't that much with the older fuel.If you take a reading at the tanks with a IF gun you will see just how hot fuel will get, trucks use the aluminum tanks mounted outside to cool the fuel but it will get hot enough to burn you.Prevost has allways used a fuel cooler and they have been in marine use for years.I would not run a electronic engine in a bus without one and they were used for the manuals also. have a great day my friend
I find the topic of fuel coolers very interesting! After My wife bought a chevy duramax I discovered that it has a fuel cooler mounted behind the fuel tank. I have no clue if it is because of the electronics or what. I suppose someone here knows? John
I sure hate to disagree with Tom C on the fuel cooler thing but he's right as far as trucks with aluminum tanks is concerned. Our buses with interior tanks...to lower the fuel gets in the tank the hotter it gets especially with Detroit's.
We used return fuel coolers on the Motor Yachts...we just wrapped copper tubing around the intake water lines (about 2" in diameter) and they made a difference. I don't believe that an air to air cooler, much like a transmission cooler, in front of one of the radiators would add enough heat to the cooling system to make much difference as far as engine cooling is concerned but it sure would help in cooling the injectors when the tank is low on fuel.
Just my $0.02
NCbob