BoatBanter.com - fuel polishing help needed

On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 04:32:57 GMT, (Lee
Huddleston) wrote:

Can any of you help me locate a source for a KR12-40 fuel pump and
GulfCoast Filters? The KR12-40 was the fuel pump highly recommended
by Belgoes Filtration. Belgoes still has a web site at
www.fuelpolishing.com but apparently the company has ceased to exist.
On their web site they do not tell who manufactures the KR12-40.

I did a Google search and only turned up links back to Belgoes. I
have also searched under fuel polishing and fuel pumps without
success. I also was searching for GulfCoast filters and could not
find any link there either.

At the West Marine site I found a Jabsco Vane Puppy pump that is
touted as a fuel transfer pump. At 5 gallons per minute that is 330
per hour whereas the KR12-40 was only 40 per hour. What do you think,
would the Vane Puppy be sucking fuel through the filters too fast for
effective polishing?

Any advice and sources for equipment for fuel polishing would be much
appreciated.

Lee Huddleston'
s/v Truelove

This sounds more like a sales brochures type request, than the answer
from a workshop type mechanic.

But -
Pump speed is usually a factor of its type, - gears, diaphragm etc
volts 12v or 24v or mechanical - also working head - If your into
transferring fuels then you want volume. Some are self priming, some
arnt.
But they come dime a dozen, as do filters.
Obviously you should work out your consumption rate.
If your a reasonable mechanic type -
Look up Auto electrical catalogs, or go and scrounge around, car truck
dismantlers - I have used second hand aircraft -( sophisticated gears
- for high speed) - to car and truck Mercedes and Jap - and various
assorted electrical pumps - As well as filters, there are water type
filters and dirt filters, all with different merits, ease of replacing
etc. - all very simple things of no great complexity, stuck on just
about every kind of motor, and a fact of life.

Do you have auto supply place handy?
They should have pages full of them.
So 12 volt 24 volt - is car or truck.
Or mechanical ?

While -
Fuel transfer is moving fuels from one tank to another - as in
transfer - So if you want to down load a few 1000 gallons this is the
one you want - but hardly the one to feed an engine with.

If you go the truck, wreckers route - buy a reconditioning kit, and
give it an overhaul - they are all very simple, non-wear-out-able
just a thing which spins around. - So the life span, usually sees out
the engine -
The vane type is better for intermittent use rather than long term -
Do you really want a thing like that spinning around for hours on end
?