Micron rating for ordinary toilet paper

[psneeld]

Have had a Gulf Coast toilet paper running continuously on my boat for 8 years. Yep 24/4. From tank to filter to Walbro pump to duel Racors (with 2 micron) to engine filters and back to tank. Racors have not been changed for 3 yrs....only then because I felt guilty...not needed. Engine filters..NEVER... For those that think they break up and clog the system...well continue to pay for your Racors, biocides and getting your tanks cleaned. I for one have the cleanest fuel on any boat in the Caribbean.

Wow! Must be pretty easy to prove...

Not having toilet paper protect my engine must be a miserasble lack of judgement.......considering I've never had a fuel related failure from just normal, old run of the mill fuel filters in 50 years.

8 years continuous running??? Must never leave the boat for any length of time or have the most faith in a "no leak" system of anyone I ever met.

 

[jleonard]

I guess its easy to criticize but it seems to me if a boat has fuel onboard for more than a year then the owner needs to ask himself why he owns the boat.* A seaside condo or a floathome doesn't have a bunch of mechanicals that need maintenance if that's all the boat really is.

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Well I run my boat almost every weekend, but no way in Heck I could burn up 360 gallons of fuel in a year at 1.75 gal per hour.
That would be 205 engine hours in basically 16 weekends if they were all good weather weekends (which they are not).
I think your comment is way off base.
Right now it's a different story as I have retired and am cruising in Canada all summer, but as a weekender the fuel get "sour", unfortunate as that is, I just deal with that factor and move on.