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![]() Wayne.B wrote: I'd like to hear more about your fuel system setup. It sounds interesting. It's very straight forward. I have no day tank. Each engine has the usual engine mounted filters. Ahead of each engine is an array of 2 Racors (total of 4), each with a ball valve on the intake and outlet. This allows either filter to be selected or isolated, or both filters could be in paralell. The output side of the Racors has a vacuum guage to monitor the condition of the filter. In the event of a higher than normal vacuum reading I open the valves for the backup filter, and close off the valves for the old filter. The old filter is now isolated and can be changed on the fly. In between the Racor's and the engine mounted filter is an electric fuel pump which is normally valved off and unpowered. If I need to prime the engine mounted filters, the electric pump is valved in and turned on. This forces fuel into the engine filters and though the injection loop to the fuel return. This could theoretically be used for polishing but I don't because I have a separate polishing loop with its own pump that just draws fuel through the Racors and sends it back to the tank. This sound a lot like what I'm thinking about, except for the lack of a day tank. Sounds like you thought it through pretty well when you designed it. Don W. |
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