Fuel filter funnel

[ip485]

I have had it only once. Utter disaster. Unfortunatley I could not prove where. Took on 300 odd gallons. Fuel gin clear before, just shinny and beatiful in the Racor. After a long moter the filter was blocked and loads of water. In the end I had the tanks hooked up to a commercial fuel polisher. It was also full of crud. At least the tanks got a good clean. I just cannot recount how annoying this is (and expensive).

I test, test and test during a fill just keeping a white pot to one side to pump some fuel into every so often, and the funnel. It isnt perfect but I figure contamination should show up. I also always ask if they have had a new delivery or are due for one. I dont want fuel out the bottom of their tanks.

As I say I cant prove where or why, but there is no doubt it can happen. I have never had it before or since so i am sure it is very rare.

 

[[70521]]

Because I changed to white diesel years ago after a dose of the bug from a marina (I put it down to slow turn over of fuel) I fill from jerry cans. While it is slower that rocking up to a pump I get to see what goes in the tank. I usually buy from a high turnover supermarket.

I've set a Syphon system up that once primed I can sit an enjoy a mug of tea while upwind of the filling rig. With the Syphon set to deliver at the same rate as the filter does its job no risk of over filling and I can hear when the tank is full.

 

[eddystone]

Have a Racor one which I never use; impossibly slow at a pump and too much left in the funnel

 

[[2574]]

I’ve only once had a fill of dirty diesel. It was early season from one of two fuelling stations in the very west of the solent, I don’t know which station it came from. The remedy was long, painful and costly including six new injectors and a diesel pump rebuild at Bosch. It made me nervous of low turnover marina fuel tanks. But the idea of can filling doesn’t appeal - lugging 150kg of fuel down the pontoon sounds like a physiotherapist fee in the making....