fuel filters with water trap

[flipper]

Can anyone recommend a supplier of the Delphi type fuel filters with the glass bowl water trap please?

Thanks

 

[pvb]

ASAP Supplies for starters

 

[Lodesman77]

Competitive pricing...

http://www.ssldieselparts.co.uk/filter-assemblies-single-c-8.html

 

[ffiill]

Just worth remembering that glass bowl filters are frowned upon by Insurance companies-likewise you cannot get a boat safety certificate unless filter base is plain aluminium.
Yes mine is a glassbowl and you can clearly see any build up of water BUT on all cars you cannot see contents of water trap all be it some have a water sensor.
Another supplier is Thorneycroft ltd -or so they trade on ebay/Google-sometimes you get very good deals on ebay for them.

 

[pvb]

Just worth remembering that glass bowl filters are frowned upon by Insurance companies-likewise you cannot get a boat safety certificate unless filter base is plain aluminium.

In 30+ years of boating I haven't ever encountered an insurance company specifying that I can't have a glass bowl prefilter.

As for the BSS, it's only prefilters fitted in the engine compartment which are required to be fire resistant.

 

[scottie]

CAV/DELPHI bowls are Pyrex not glass so should be ok!

 

[davidbfox]

I got mine off eBay tractor supplier.

 

[PetiteFleur]

CAV/DELPHI bowls are Pyrex not glass so should be ok!

My CAV filter is glass(well, hasn't got Pyrex written on it!)! If the boat is not on inland waters it's not liable to be BSS compliant. I had my boat surveyed by two seperate people and both said it was OK.

 

[flipper]

Thanks for the responses guys

 

[Severnman]

In any case buy two so you have a spare!

 

[gljnr1983]

I bought a delphi filter from thorny croft engines.It has got the 1/2 unf threads and i can not find any banjo fittings with 6mm hose tail only 8mm so make sure if you have 6mm fuel lines to get the 14mm threads because there are 14mm banjos available with 6mm tails.

 

[pappaecho]

I understand that boats on British Waterways and canals cannot have glass bowls for health and safety because if the boat catches fire, the glass will shatter. They insist on "metal ones" which melt at about 300 degrees C, as against about 600 for glass.

How the rest of us boaters and of course most of the worlds lorry drivers use
glass so that we can see if there is water in the diesel, have not ended up as crispy critters is beyond me

 

[davidwf]

I understand that boats on British Waterways and canals cannot have glass bowls for health and safety because if the boat catches fire, the glass will shatter. They insist on "metal ones" which melt at about 300 degrees C, as against about 600 for glass.

I wondered about the use of a glass bowl then remembered I have rubber fuel hoses that would just burn through anyway so cannot see the issue with Glass / Pyrex.

I am guessing thatr BSS insist on copper fuel pipes.

 

[Ramage]

Correct, copper fuel pipes are required for BSS. And the drain plug in the metal bowl has to be metal too (not plastic).

 

[sarabande]

glass bowls are more brittle than metal, I suppose. I think the problem was that people started to install plastic ones.

FWIW, the John Deere tractors have a glass fuel filter so that you can see if/when it is dirty / waxed up.

 

[pvb]

Correct, copper fuel pipes are required for BSS.

Totally, utterly, completely wrong! Flexible pipes are permitted under BSS. Why do people who obviously have no knowledge presume to post here and potentially confuse other forum members?