On Mar 29, 1:52 pm, Wayne.B wrote:
On 29 Mar 2007 08:30:02 -0700, wrote:

What if both filters clog offshore?
You going dead in the water in a storm while swapping filters?

I thought that was the purpose of having two filter housing and piping
them to shift from housing to housing.

You must be misunderstanding something. Because of the dual
switchable Racors in front of the engine it is very unlikely that
either of the engine mounted filters will ever clog. I replace them
periodically as routine maintenance only.

Same here, I have baldwin secondarys engine mounted.

Here's the problem I've seen a hundred times. You are offshore your
tanks are being sloshed hard, so every thing is floating and knocked
loose, the first PRIMARY clogs, you switch to your second Primary and
it clogs. So you have to change one primary to get going. In doing so,
in a storm, you are not going to be able to get all the air out of the
Racor canister.

Then if you try to push air through the engine you are asking for
problems. Lots of cranking ect and if your electric fuel pump fails
you could become airbound. Nothing like getting airbound in a storm
with a loaded boat.

I like the sound of everthing you are doing except pushing air
through the fuel system.

PS: I have over 400K miles under my belt on boats that had a min of
3.. 12-71 TI's and as many as 5, with 2, 4-71 natural gen sets. Dealt
with many 16-149 TI ****balls as well.

Joe






The Racors require no priming.

Since I have twin engines fed by separate tanks and filters the
probability of ever going dead in the water is very slim.

On 29 Mar 2007 15:18:45 -0700, wrote:

Here's the problem I've seen a hundred times. You are offshore your
tanks are being sloshed hard, so every thing is floating and knocked
loose, the first PRIMARY clogs, you switch to your second Primary and
it clogs. So you have to change one primary to get going. In doing so,
in a storm, you are not going to be able to get all the air out of the
Racor canister.

In actual practice it has so far not been a problem, maybe just luck,
or maybe it's because the fuel level in my tanks is usually higher
than the Racors.

"Wayne.B" wrote

Since I have twin engines fed by separate tanks and
filters the
probability of ever going dead in the water is very slim.

Famous last words?

They said the Titanic was unsinkable, too.