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New style (spin on) Raycor (diesel) fuel filters
Get the type (filter head casting) with the integral hand operated
priming pump (plunger); or, see below. How do the new units work? I'm imagining a procedure similar to an oil filter replacement, except that after I remove the old, I have to fill the new one with fuel. Install a 12v fuel pump between the tank and the first filter. Energize the pump with a switch. When installing new filters, etc. turn on the pump and then sequentially bleed all the filters, lift pump, final filter. Also serves as a 'back-up' lift pump. When not energized the integral valves in the pump will allow the fuel delivery system to operate just as before. Actually lift pumps on engines shouldn't be located where they are, they should be at the tank. Then you have a positive pressure system that cant suck air from leaky joints, etc. Additionally a positive pressure system will vastly increase the service life of the filters! |
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New style (spin on) Raycor (diesel) fuel filters
RichH wrote in message ...
Get the type (filter head casting) with the integral hand operated priming pump (plunger); or, see below. How do the new units work? I'm imagining a procedure similar to an oil filter replacement, except that after I remove the old, I have to fill the new one with fuel. Install a 12v fuel pump between the tank and the first filter. Energize the pump with a switch. When installing new filters, etc. turn on the pump and then sequentially bleed all the filters, lift pump, final filter. Also serves as a 'back-up' lift pump. When not energized the integral valves in the pump will allow the fuel delivery system to operate just as before. Actually lift pumps on engines shouldn't be located where they are, they should be at the tank. Then you have a positive pressure system that cant suck air from leaky joints, etc. Additionally a positive pressure system will vastly increase the service life of the filters! The only bad side to the positive pressure is if you have a leak. I was on a large boat once that had a leak by the injection pump. The boat was running fine, but I make it a habit to take a look at the engines every so many hours. So I go down for a peek, find about 3 to 4 inches of diesel in the bilge. The dangerous part, some of the fuel was in the form of a fine mist, not a good thing, thank God for water cooled turbo's. My point is, I think I'd rather live with the problem of finding an air leak. |
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