PaulJ
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Re: You think YOUV\'E got problems!
Ummm.... Not quite. It is a long keeled boat, built on frames. The keel is divided into sections between the frames. The aft three sections are capped off and make up the main fuel tank and the next five sections are also capped with a steel plate and house the ballast. The steel capping plates are not quite at the top of the keel so the bilge "sump" is the bit of the keel above the steel capping plates.
The bottom of the keel/tank is about 6ft below the engine's lift pump which is too much for the lift pump to cope with when the tank is low so I have had to fit a "day tank" and the fuel is first filtered when being pumped from the main tank up to the day tank so hopefully that filter will catch most of any crud. It is then filtered again between the day-tank and the engine..... and then of course the engine has it's own filter mounted on it so I think the fuel that reaches the engine should be pretty clean. I don't know much about the chemistry of diesel or any other fuel but my concern was that any "lighter factions" in the fuel may have evaporated or somehow otherwise been affected by the long period of storage.......
Paul.
<hr width=100% size=1>I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out.....
Ummm.... Not quite. It is a long keeled boat, built on frames. The keel is divided into sections between the frames. The aft three sections are capped off and make up the main fuel tank and the next five sections are also capped with a steel plate and house the ballast. The steel capping plates are not quite at the top of the keel so the bilge "sump" is the bit of the keel above the steel capping plates.
The bottom of the keel/tank is about 6ft below the engine's lift pump which is too much for the lift pump to cope with when the tank is low so I have had to fit a "day tank" and the fuel is first filtered when being pumped from the main tank up to the day tank so hopefully that filter will catch most of any crud. It is then filtered again between the day-tank and the engine..... and then of course the engine has it's own filter mounted on it so I think the fuel that reaches the engine should be pretty clean. I don't know much about the chemistry of diesel or any other fuel but my concern was that any "lighter factions" in the fuel may have evaporated or somehow otherwise been affected by the long period of storage.......
Paul.
<hr width=100% size=1>I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out.....