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" Plus any time you are running your engine you are "polishing" your fuel."


This is only true if the engine has a high return rate , like a DD.or modern electric injector units.

Many engines with Bosch style injector pumps return internal leakage or a bit more for lubrication.

A quart an hour of returned fuel will not clean the fuel much. 10-15 GPH will.
 
" Plus any time you are running your engine you are "polishing" your fuel."


This is only true if the engine has a high return rate , like a DD.or modern electric injector units.

Many engines with Bosch style injector pumps return internal leakage or a bit more for lubrication.

A quart an hour of returned fuel will not clean the fuel much. 10-15 GPH will.

And still if all you have are filters, not a polishing system such as centrifuge, you're filtering, not polishing. There remains a distinction.
 
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