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Odysseus

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Fuel polishing part 2
« on: July 09 2018, 15:44 »
I made my rig over the winter for £24 off eBay and tried it out for first time last week.
Wow what a surprise.
The amount of brown gunk that came up from the bottom of the tank after moving pipe around , it blocked the primary filter after half an hour of running so modification need a bigger primary filter.
The photos are not good sorry but you can see the gunk.
Any boat in Europe should think of this as the bio fuel is the contamintor.

I ran it for hour and a half, it was not picking up any more gunk.

Hope this helps.
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Bav32

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Re: Fuel polishing part 2
« Reply #1 on: July 09 2018, 18:43 »
Looks nice. (I mean the setup, not the fuelfilter)

Fuel pump, filter, water filter, hoses... what else? Do you have a parts list? That is something I could install permanently in the boat. I have a spare outlet/inlet in the tank and with a T-branch in the main fuel line I could easily recycle the fuel in the tank.

Is the filters easy to change and in a reasonable price-range?

dawntreader

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Re: Fuel polishing part 2
« Reply #2 on: July 10 2018, 07:47 »
I did the same some time ago and used a slightly smaller in-line filter. When in rough seas and half-full tank the filter clogged due to the swishing around and caused engine to stall. I was able to get into port and then up-sized my filter  :o :kewl