Bluetide
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- Feb 25, 2011
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Hi.
We have been having some issues with our fuel.
We have 2 x 600 litre tanks that were full of bug and water.
I built a mobile fuel cleaning unit out of 1 x 100 micron element and 1x 10 micron racor plus a 1 x 2 micron filter.
Filtered the fuel into another container removing 15 litres of water.
The first Racor inline removed 99.9% of the water the 2nd the rest.
We accessed the tanks from their large inspection plates and used wet vac to remove the rest of the bug, water etc.
Tanks ended up very clean.
An Algaecide was added to the fuel before pumping it back to the tanks.
Thought we had done a great job.
Until after adding another 800 litres and 15 hours running our filters were full of water again restricting flow worse than before.
Removed about 5 litres in under 2 hours running.
Now scratching our heads trying to work out where the water came from.
Bad fuel supply? Don't thinks so, our other boat is fine.
Did some of the water get past our fuel filter ?
By adding the fuel conditioner does that release the water from the fuel?
Any ideas
Thanks
Rob
We have been having some issues with our fuel.
We have 2 x 600 litre tanks that were full of bug and water.
I built a mobile fuel cleaning unit out of 1 x 100 micron element and 1x 10 micron racor plus a 1 x 2 micron filter.
Filtered the fuel into another container removing 15 litres of water.
The first Racor inline removed 99.9% of the water the 2nd the rest.
We accessed the tanks from their large inspection plates and used wet vac to remove the rest of the bug, water etc.
Tanks ended up very clean.
An Algaecide was added to the fuel before pumping it back to the tanks.
Thought we had done a great job.
Until after adding another 800 litres and 15 hours running our filters were full of water again restricting flow worse than before.
Removed about 5 litres in under 2 hours running.
Now scratching our heads trying to work out where the water came from.
Bad fuel supply? Don't thinks so, our other boat is fine.
Did some of the water get past our fuel filter ?
By adding the fuel conditioner does that release the water from the fuel?
Any ideas
Thanks
Rob