Anyone Install a Fuel Cooler?

Dumb question what is asphalting ? You cook your fuel into gear oil I would guess .

 

guy was in my friends shop and he used a tranny cooler with a mounted fan and a temp gauge and temp sender with a manual over ride switch. I dont know what the temp he kept the fuel at but i know he told me he could drop the temp 40+ degrees when the fan was running on a hot day

 

Lots of oem use fuel coolers on the return line I see a lot off cummins I'm pete and kw that run them pete likes to mount there's on the radiator on the left side and kw likes to mount there's on the right rear frame next to the drive line

 

Cold fuel versus hot fuel. Anybody that drives a CAT can tell you, crank the truck up early in the morning when it's sat overnight (not idling) let it get up to operating temp, then take off your throttle response and power has a noticeable seat of the pants "peppier" feel to it. After about 20 minutes to a half hour of driving when the fuel temp has risen to normal "hot" operating tempurature this "pep in the step" is gone. I notice it with my truck. That is the difference between hot fuel versus cold. Btw Cowpie that's a really nice truck you have I saw pics in the other thread.

 

I think I asphalted my olive oil/bacon grease while cooking breakfast this morning.

 

had fuel heaters on trucks that I ran Canada,keeps it from jelling at 40 below,but, never a cooler though.

 

I remember older BMW cars had a fuel cooler that utilized the low psi a/c line to cool the gas going to the engine. An interested person can go to a local parts house and buy a Hayden brand trans cooler for about 60 bucks. Put it on the return line and make sure it has some good airflow or install a fan. I wouldnt put it on the pressure side, increases the possibilty of sucking air into the line or having a leak you dont notice and losing a drop of fuel every 5 seconds. I also have good mileage results from Sea-Foam additive, it gives me a 1/2 mile per gallon increase with a bottle per tank. its only 8 bucks a bottle.

 

I have one on my KW, but don't know the temp, I do know it works.

A friend that is into racing his truck ask me about it, and he had doupts, I told him to test his truck.

monday 4:00 am he goes to work, ran the truck on a bridge we have here, it ran 102 mph, later in the day early afternoon ran again and 99 mph, which was his constant speed, now he has a fuel cooler, I do notice that it still pretty hot, so I have been thinking about another cooler with a fan for the return and fuel temp sensor on both, I know it will get done but don't know when.