Stemar
Well-Known Member
The starboard Beta 20 engine on Jazzcat has a tendency to stall at low revs. It's mostly fine at cruising speeds and there's no noticeable difference in power between the engines. It can usually be restarted by churning a bit at full throttle, and works fine for a while if I bleed the system. It always wants lots of throttle to start and a bit of churning, while the port one starts quickly at idle, even from cold.
At the last service, the mechanic was concerned about corrosion on the engine fuel filter body, with the risk of it not sealing properly, but this is after the fuel pump, so should be under pressure when the engine is running, so I wouldn't have thought it would allow air in when running. Is that a reasonable assumption?
Supplementary question - if it is corrosion on the fuel filter that's causing the problem, the filter holder is part of the inlet manifold casting, which I can't image costing less than an arm, a leg and a kidney. There are flexible hoses from the lift pump to the filter and from the filter to the injector pump, so is there any reason why I couldn't get a car filter assembly from a breaker, and mount it anywhere convenient, with longer pipes?
At the last service, the mechanic was concerned about corrosion on the engine fuel filter body, with the risk of it not sealing properly, but this is after the fuel pump, so should be under pressure when the engine is running, so I wouldn't have thought it would allow air in when running. Is that a reasonable assumption?
Supplementary question - if it is corrosion on the fuel filter that's causing the problem, the filter holder is part of the inlet manifold casting, which I can't image costing less than an arm, a leg and a kidney. There are flexible hoses from the lift pump to the filter and from the filter to the injector pump, so is there any reason why I couldn't get a car filter assembly from a breaker, and mount it anywhere convenient, with longer pipes?
