Just what is it with boat fuel? I've driven over 2 million
miles, over 30 years using 4 trucks and have never been shut
down by dirty filters.
I've had them freeze in Winter.

SBV


"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 16:10:22 -0500, DSK
wrote:

But hey, if you spend an extra 50$ on some new-age
feel-good
doohickey for your fuel system, you could probably save
on
some of those 7$ filter elements

Clean filter elements and a built in fuel polishing system
are cheap
insurance against an unsheduled shut down in my opinion.
Skip has a
sailboat so at least he has redundant propulsion. Judging
from the
stories I hear from people almost everyone, sail or power,
has
experienced a shutdown at one time or another from dirty
fuel. One of
my neighbors with a 40 something motor sailor told me that
he and his
wife stopped going to the Bahamas because they lost power
everytime
they crossed the gulf stream.

That's the problem with dirty fuel; it almost always hits
you in
marginal conditions when you are least prepared to deal
with it.