My Diesel Heater Runs On This - Cheaper Than Diesel 

here in the U.S. kerosenes is quite expensive. it does work well as a substitute for diesel. another substitute is used cooking oil, but it needs to be strained to remove any solids.

I don't think its viable at the moment, I am struggling to find a supplier near where I live in the UK. for less than £1.77 a ltr. that is more expensive than diesel, at my local supermarket is £1.60 ltr.

Taxi drivers do exactly the same thing. Maybe not a good idea to admit to it on here though?

Really no need. My heater has run for 5000 hours just on kerosene. No problem with the pump. I opened it up to check the glow plug. Clean as a whistle!

@@codprawn Thanks for the info.

No need to do that. Kerosene is actually a lubricant anyway.

@@codprawn No surprises about clean combustion chamber while running kerosene as it is far lower in sulphur and burns less sooty than 35 second diesel or gas oil. I normally run 35 second gas oil but do also run kerosene sometimes and the lack of sooty carbon is very noticeable when running 28 second kerosene central heating oil.

Forgot to add......Try not to go over 2 metres with the exhaust length, as the heater struggles with the increased back pressure at start up, resulting in failure to start.

Thanks for the info

@itsallfabrication this is 100pc correct, because it doesn't regulate it assumes airmass flow from only the fan speed so anything different will make it run rich and any richer than stock causes soot to build up. That is why they have an alpine mode which reducing fueling by a fixed 20pc. You can also lean it out by putting your fuel lower because the pumps are calibrated at 1m head, if you increase that, you get less fuel. This also applies to exhaust heat recovery. If you recover heat, you increase the density of the gas it has to push out, like an intercooler. Whether or not the effect is significant, I have no idea. They are best run lean if you can unless you want to dismantle it every 10 hours.

@@dr_jaymz What James said.

The pumps are designed to be lubricated by the fuel, same as an automobile.

I know Steve, There are a lot of people who just repeat what they have read and that gives a false true.

If I tried to heat my house ( 3 bed semi ) with my 5KW diesel heater, I would have died of hypothermia, PDQ.

Nice one

I own multiple diesel trucks and heat my house with oil. Our home house oil in the northern usa is red dye kerosene . Red kero will run your diesel truck but will ruin your high pressure pump and injectors after time.

@@markrich3271 Good point, thanks for the reply.

@wrxs1781 There allot of pre common rail folks that have mechanical pumps that can run anything in their tank, darn injectors are so much money today I would be in tears if I killed my hpfp and injectors .

Thanks Neil, good luck bud.👍

Then you have to lube it whit oil ore something. Cos kerosene is not exaktly what you belive. I am captain and know all fuels

yes we used to make diesel to run our free flight model aeroplanes when we were kids back in the 70s 40% ether. 20% castor oil for lube, and 40% paraffin it made 100ml of fuel. I suppose you could make more if you could find some ether that mkight be hard to find in the UK these days without a license to buy it, the more explosive the substance the more difficult it is to buy it.

Cerosine is pure parafin ur clowns

Diesel is not kerosene with paraffin added. Kerosene is a type of paraffin but diesel is a different fractional distillate of crude oil. They are both extracted from crude oil but kerosene has a lower boiler point and so is extracted before diesel and is therefore a lighter oil. It's true that kerosene does not have the same lubricant qualities of diesel which is why it's not a good idea to run kerosene in a diesel engine.

People in the US Call stuff whatever they want. It really doesn't make sense but it depends where we grew up

Paraffin

Mine had done 5000 hours on kerosene. No problem at all with the pump.

Good to know it works in Primus stoves. I have 7 of differant makes and sizes and love tinkerin with them. 👍

@@fraross6212 Well, there's lots of tinkering with blow lamps, Tilley lamps and stoves on my channel!

Awesome, thank you!

on the other hand, pumps are dirt cheap and can be changed in under 5 minutes

@@bigoldgrizzly yes but ebay postage can leave you cold for weeks🤣

If you have loads of engine oil it would be best to make a dedicated burner out of a vast range of things, from propane bottles to beer kegs. Oil in these diesel heaters is a no no for sure :)

Chemtrails are sprayed in the air to bring about climate change.

Unfortunately we can’t buy Red Diesel any more! In Cambridgeshire anyway

These heaters REALLY NEED the cool down cycle before they shut off...

what would be the symptons of a poor combustion.i was going to extend exhaust to scavenage heat from it. thanks

I do not use a "muffler". Inmo, it is not needed. The sound is the same, with or without muffler.

Good idea Alan

Nice one.

Hi, Please forgive my ignorance but is paraffin the same as kerosene?

@@Yahatacooky no paraffin is in the same hydrocarbon group but is typically more refined.

lol

Thanks 👍

Use your old motor oil strain it first

Olive oil has toxic fumes - be careful

For diesel engines, straight vegetable oil is usually fine (provided the fuel pumps and injectors can handle it), though you can run into problems in very cold winters since the oil can turn into a semi-liquid gel or even freeze solid in the fuel tank and then the fuel pump can't deliver it to the engine. You can cure that by mixing about 20% kerosene or white spirit (aka paint thinning solvent) with the vegetable oil, which reduces the viscosity and lowers the freezing point of the mixture. A bit like how the "ice road truckers" or aircraft in northern Canada mix some gasoline in with the diesel or jet fuel to stop it freezing in the fuel tanks. For these diesel heaters though, vegetable oil can cause problems, again due to the higher viscosity and higher boiling point than petroleum diesel. The most common problem is when starting the heater from cold, because it doesn't vaporise easily enough. So you either get unburned oil coming out of the exhaust, or a lot of soot build-up in the exhaust because the oil isn't completely vaporising, or the heater just fails to start up completely no matter how many times you try it and you just get the "ignition failure" error code over and over again. It is possible to run a diesel heater on vegetable oil, and there are two strategies to enable this to work: (1). The simplest way, which needs no modifications to the heater itself, is to pre-mix the vegetable oil 50:50 with white spirit or kerosene before pouring it into the fuel tank. Again, this lowers the viscosity and the lower boiling fraction enables the glow plug to vaporise enough of the fuel on start-up for the combustion to get going properly. Does it really take as much as 50% to achieve this? By my own experiments, yes - I initially tried with 20% white spirit and that wasn't enough for my heater to start. I tried again and again with higher proportions, and found 50% to be the point where it would reliably ignite every time. (2): Another way, which does require some modifications, is to add a second fuel tank to the system, with a fuel change-over valve to switch between tanks before the fuel gets to the pump. Ensure that one tank is filled with ordinary diesel or kerosene, and use that one whenever you start the heater up from cold. Once it has been running at full power for at least 10 minutes and so is fully warmed up, you can flip the valve so it uses the vegetable oil. You have to do the reverse when shutting it off though - flip the valve back to the diesel or kerosene and let it continue running for long enough to purge any vegetable oil in the fuel line between the valve and the heater unit (probably another 10 minutes to be sure) before you shut it off. That way it will be starting up on the diesel or kerosene again the next time you start it up

Lol just dont run it on filtered sardine can oil.

Nice 👍

77p wth......who delivers that?

@@robton007 The national average heating oil price is currently 82.9p per litre and last weekend, my local oil club price was 81.5 - but this is usually in minimum quantities of 500 litres. I expect readers would be interested where you can go buy just a few litres Martin? - Interesting videos though. Thank you.

His diesel heater is clicking in the video. Doesn’t that sound drive you crazy in your van? How in the world could you sleep with that noise?

exactly

@retrorestore well, its not obvious that they will leak because often on an exhaust, if there is good enough flow rate the pressure of the moving gas is lower than static pressure which counter intuitively sucks air in. On the diesel heater that is what happens on any leaks around gmthe glow plug seals and at the joint where the stainless exhaust fits. And its a bloody good job too otherwise the glowplug seal would cause CO to enter the warm air outlet.

I have a question. What does it smell like on that fuel? Does it smell like jet aircraft, or does it smell like diesel? I thought about trying jet A1 which is the same. Also where did you find heating fuel at 30? I can find it at about 38 which is not much better than diesel.

Nice one.