kev_rm
Senior Member
Hi All.
I've done about 1400 miles in the last year in SE US and Bahamas. I've not had any problems with fuel but after my last run up from Ft. Pierce to Savannah, upon arrival one of my racors was nearly full of water and the engine has a separator too which was ~1/2 full of water. That engine was running fine when I arrived.
The last two marinas I bought gas at were on nice end of the spectrum and no comments of bad fuel per active captain.
Orings for deck fittings looks fine. I will confess I probably haven't actually looked at the racors prior to leaving the bahamas so its possible i got it there.
(got fuel in west end and marsh a few times)
So I suppose the ultimate question is, what amount of water would cause you do try to do damage control e.g. fuel polishing, and am I missing anything in terms of cause of contamination deck fitting or marina fuel itself.
thanks in advance
I've done about 1400 miles in the last year in SE US and Bahamas. I've not had any problems with fuel but after my last run up from Ft. Pierce to Savannah, upon arrival one of my racors was nearly full of water and the engine has a separator too which was ~1/2 full of water. That engine was running fine when I arrived.
The last two marinas I bought gas at were on nice end of the spectrum and no comments of bad fuel per active captain.
Orings for deck fittings looks fine. I will confess I probably haven't actually looked at the racors prior to leaving the bahamas so its possible i got it there.
(got fuel in west end and marsh a few times)
So I suppose the ultimate question is, what amount of water would cause you do try to do damage control e.g. fuel polishing, and am I missing anything in terms of cause of contamination deck fitting or marina fuel itself.
thanks in advance