It is highly recommend to use a heated filter in vehicles which are powered by vegetable oil. By using a heated filter, you put less strain on the system as a whole and are far less likely to suffer from filter blockages and fuel starvation. By heating and thinning down the vegetable oil at the filter, the fuel will pass through the filter more easily, putting less strain on your injector pump. See filters section for more detail.

It is also important to ensure that when running on used cooking oil (UCO) the fuel is well filtered before it is put in the fuel tank. Gravity filtering using sock filters provide a very time, cost and energy efficient means of filtering the raw vegoil to fuel grade. See our Filtering Guide for more details

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The original and still the best. The Eckes WT style heated filter. The concept was originally designed by a German vegoiler, Eckhard Wernick, who developed the idea of fitting a VW oil cooler between the filter head and a spin on filter. As a result this filter unit gets excepionally hot, very quickly. In order to build this heated filter Eckes designed and fabricated an extension bolt that clamps the oil cooler to the filter head and extends the M16 thread for the spin on filter below the oil cooler. Thus, the fuel now passes through a brazed plate heat exchanger before it is filtered.

Here we have the complete Eckes style heated filter as follows;

• Bosch universal filter head. Accepts standard spin on diesel filters, M14 fuel fittings, flexible fuel inflow and outflow from either top, left or right
• Oil cooler seal
• Adapter bolt
• VW style oil cooler - aluminium brazed plate heat exchanger
• High quality, heat tolerent spin on filter

This unit can double as a looped return tee since the vegoil from the fuel tank can enter on one side and the returning fuel from the injector pump can enter on the other. Fuel fittings are not included;

• For standard fitment requires 3 blanks and 2 hose fittings
• For fitment as tee requires 2 blanks and 3 hose fittings

See below for fuel fittings 

£60

Cast aluminium bosch filter head with universal ports. Ideal for adding a proper diesel filter to your system rather than a disposable one or for mating with an oil cooler to make an eckes style heat exchanger or heated filter.

• Accepts standard spin on diesel filters with M16 thread
• M14 thread for fuel fittings
• Fuel inflow from either left or right
• Fuel outflow from either top, left or right
• Blanks and fittings ordered separately

This unit can double as a looped return tee since the vegoil from the fuel tank can enter on one side and the returning fuel from the injector pump can enter on the other. When mated with a suitably powerful heat exchanger between the filter and the head this could be used as an heated filter and heat exchanger in one.

• For standard fitment requires 3 blanks and 2 hose fittings
• For fitment as tee requires 2 blanks and 3 hose fittings

See below for hose fittings 

£16

Adapter Bolt for Eckes Style Heated Filter
Aluminium Eckes style adapter bolt for attaching a VW oil cooler to your filter head. Easily installed by inserting a philips screwdriver through the hole and tightening up onto the filter head. For a good secure fit, and to avoid unscrewing the heater block when changing the filter it is best to use a medium threadlock when fitting the adapter bolt to the filter head.

£9.90

Heater Block / VW Oil Cooler for Eckes Style Heated Filter
VW oil Cooler OEM: 068 117 021B

Powerful aluminium brazed plate heat exchanger for heating your filter via the use of an adapter bolt.

£29.50

Spin on filter
Highest quality spin on filter for the Bosch universal filter head. Ideal for use with hot vegoil

£12

Filter not included - shown for scale

£1.50

• length = 31"
• diameter = 7"
• material = polypropylene (needlefelt)
• 7" galvanised steel hanging ring
• hanging strap

Fittings for either the heated filter HF02 or the Bosch universal filter head. These fittings also fit the HE4 heat exchanger and the Pevekoil valves

£2.20

 £2.20

£1.10

£2.80

£0.95

£0.30