Got a good dose of water in my fuel and ruined a possibly good trip. What do you guys do to avoid or redemy this??
Got a good dose of water in my fuel and ruined a possibly good trip. What do you guys do to avoid or redemy this??
make sure water cant get in, have bowl fuel filters and use some fuel doctor - for me it works
cheers
Craig
I only have a portable tank with fuel line and bulb. I added one of those inline glass filters just for the sake of seeing the flow through the tubes (I suppose it helps block particle contaminants from reaching the motor as well), but for moisture in the fuel, I too use Fuel Doctor additive as a preventative measure.
I use a racor fuel filter with the bowl on the bottom and the filler has an o ring seal so I'm blowed if I know where the waters getting in. When I had trouble yesterday, I checked the bowl of the filter and only about a teaspoon of water came out so I didn't think it was the problem.
Trev, so what did go wrong?
Dam good chance if you only had a teaspoon of water in the Racor.. that water aint ya engine problemOriginally Posted by trev1
Garry
Retired Honda Master Tech
Found the problem, rust. Cleaned out the carbs , flakes of rust through near everything. Next prob is the only thing made of steel in the system IS the racor filter (element itself). I haven't pulled the filter yet but I think that I'm going to change the whole filter assy to something I can afford filters for after pricing a replacement racor. ( the lucas 296 glass bottom filters are looking good as I can get them from work)
Trev
There's now available an after market filter element that fits the Racor setup - about $20 from most good chandleries compared to nearly $60 for the genuine Racor ones. I've been using this replacement for 6 months with no dramas.
I think they are supplied by BLA to dealers but if you can't find them PM me and I'll find out some more from a mate who runs a Yammy dealership here in Bris-vegas.
At that price I'll be changing mine every year now. That should remove the rust issue too.
Grant
I was told $87 for the racor replacement, I can get a whole housing assy for the other style for about $45, and I would only pay $7.50 for the replacement filters (if I had to pay for them)
If you are running petrol only use the lucas or the people that took over lucas HDF - 296 filters. Only $10 or less anyway. Generics and others are not the same filter paper or spiral design and also some have glues that are diesel but not petrol proof. Some of the orings supplied by generics don't survive ethanol and deteriorate in petrol and you end up with air in your fuel lines. They rust on the outside quickly on moored boats so we give then a quick spray with clear lacquer before fitting. Older lucas clear bowls are a pain to let water out as they have asmall plastic relief bung. Later ones have ball valve which is good. Mount your fuel primer before the filter as they are somtimes hard to prime if you have a long fuel pipe run and difficult to prime after releasing water.
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