M52 fuel tank vent wanted

[cranetruck]

Anybody have one of these for scrap price plus shipping? Need one for the fuel heater fuel pump. It will go on the second tank of the 757.

Thanks,

 

[M543A2]

Bjorn:
Hello! i have one i took out of a 5T dump fuel tank, but it is not the same as your diagram. It has a float and valve on it, apparently to shut it off if the fuel sloshed too high.
Regards Marti

 

[cranetruck]

Hmm...I'm not really interested in the vent itself, just the plate to fit the opening in the tank with the sucktion tube. The tank is vented elsewhere.
It will be for the small fuel pump that supplies fuel to the fuel burning personnel heater.

 

[Ferroequinologist]

Fuel burning personnel heater? that 757 gets more and more interesting...

 

[maddawg308]

Fuel burning personnel heater? that 757 gets more and more interesting...

That's not unique, Adam. My -725 has a rear compartment heater that was run on gasoline, on a branch line from the fuel tank, directly below it. The idea of resurrecting a 40-yr-old gas burning heater sounds a little dangerous to me, so it will be retired and replaced by a engine coolant-powered heater, like most MVs.

 

[cranetruck]

Here is a test setup for the heater configured to heat the coolant. The exhaust would normally heat the oil pan.
Should be interesting.

 

[BKubu]

Bjorn: Try John Winslow...he has MANY residue 5 tons.

Good luck!

 

[Ferroequinologist]

Mike,
I know that the fuel burning heaters aren't really unique. I just thought the fact that a tractor would have one just to heat its own cab, which happens to have a very large heat producing item already protruding in it, makes that setup unique.

Just set that burner up outside on the ground and light it off- it will probably work fine. Or blow half the mountain you live on up.

Now that Bjorn has included other functions of the heater, I can see why they installed it.

 

[cranetruck]

Knucklehead has offered to send me one. Thanks everybody!