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Other than using a 10l fuel carry can for diesel for the heaters has anyone got a better idea? I bought the diesel heater (Robin's order of about 3 years ago) and then decided to keep the 2.5l petrol engine.

Could you repurpose a gas bottle or purchase a marine fuel tank, perhaps?

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Thanks. I found a couple of cheap 5l containers - can sacrifice one of the caps if needed to make the nozzle for the feed. If isn't suitable option 3 looks good: shouldn't need that much fuel anyway!

G'day matey, I use the fuel tank off a rotary mower which holds enough and is fed from outside through a copper fuel line. This has worked fine for me in the past although I must add I have a flexi fuel pipe at each end of the feed just in case of any movement-vibration.

Just my views. R-Rose .

I've got an old plastic 5l fuel can, wider at the base than the top, which just fits behind the passenger seat.
If you can find one of those you could be sorted.

I have one of the heaters in my barn and use a plastic fuel tank from a mini-moto bike - only holds about 3 litres but it means if I forget to turn it off it won't drain the 25l container I use to keep my red Diesel in.

Otherwise, as Matt says, ebay might be your friend

Just remember, whatever you use will need a vent to allow air into the container as well as the feed out. You could vent it with more of the heater fuel pipe (there's loads in the kit), though a hole in the floor - as long as it doesn't extend into the fuel it shouldn't leak/syphon out.

At full bore the heater takes around 0.2l per hour, so a 5l can should give you around 20 hours continuous use, or more than double that on low setting.
Oh, and don't forget you can use red Diesel - currently around 75p/l from our local truck stop

Cheers,
Robin.

I'll hassle the chap who's doing the work if the garage style fuel cans aren't suitable. Worst case is the fuel tank gets sorted out later.

I use a small 5l steel jerry can. It looks the same as the 20l, but mini. It fits snug in the engine bay against the inner wing on my 6 pot. It came with a filling spout. I cut off the spout just above the cap and fittet the pick up pipe which comes with your heater over the left over stump of the spout. I also drilled a 1mm hole into the cap next to the spout so it can draw air otherwise it will try to suck the container vacuum. This works well as I leave this on the jerrycan all the time and when I need to fill it up, I take it of, close the jerrycan with the cap and take it out and take it to the pump.
You could always find another space to keep it if it doesn't fit in the engine bay. The benefit of having it in the engine bay is that the diesel get warmed up a bit by the engine heat. All you need to take care of is that the plastic fuel line does not touch the block. Happened to mine... But since rerouted.

I'll try and take some pictures of it later and post them here.

Michiel

Thanks Michiel. I'll be putting it all under the passenger side bed along with the batteries & heater. The plastic fuel containers were a cheaper option and I'll keep an eye out for a replacement if it doesn't work.

You sure you want to keep it in the compartment where you are sleeping? Whatever container you use, it must have some sort of ventilation vent or valve to prevent the container from collapsing under the vacuum pressure of the fuel pump sucking the fuel out.
So it will vent the diesel fumes in the cab. Not so nice when you are sleeping I would imagine.

Michiel

As I mentioned before, you can vent the container using a length of the fuel pipe through the floor to the outside - easy & safe