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holby
Admiral of the Fleet Joined: 18 February 2006 Location: Isle of Man Status: Offline Points: 2287 |
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Posted: 20 May 2016 at 21:58 |
At the moment DD is now moored on her swing mooring in Barmouth. Her main berth is in Douglas in the Isle of Man.
I have been over the years had problems with a blocked fuel filter / water separator. It would happen at the most inopportune moments, in stormy conditions when a working engine was needed, entering port, etc... I had tried cleaning the fuel tank, cleaning the desiel, I would still suddenly get a slowing down of the engine and eventually stopping it. So I bought a duplex fuel system, as there was a sudden price drop in this item which was before was just to expensive for me. It is fitted, and is I think brilliant, just filled the two filters, ran the engine, no bleeding of the system was required, then shut of one filter. I also cleaned the tank and this time put in new fuel hoses, and found so much crap adhering to the side of the pipes that I think I had found the problem. Now if I get a blocked filter, which I think will be unlikely, all I need to do is switch the second filter on and switch the blocked filter off... When I then have time, I just need to spin off the blocked filter, fill the new filter with fuel and spin on... No need to bleed the system.... Since fitting DD has covered 30 miles and all looks well and seems to be working well.<p ="p1" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;]</span><p ="p1" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;]</span><p ="p1" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;]<o:p></o:p> [/COLOR]<p ="p1" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> Edited by holby - 20 May 2016 at 22:19 |
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Hanse 301, tiller steering, Volvo 2010 (10hp)
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samuel
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Glad to see you back sailing & posting Dave
Will there be a re issue of the My Hanse flag soon? |
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Daydream Believer- Hanse 311- No GBR9917T- Bradwell Essex
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holby
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Cheers Samuel,
I have burgess on stock at the moment..... I will do a new post for them this weekend.. 😀😀😀😀😀 |
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Hanse 301, tiller steering, Volvo 2010 (10hp)
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samuel
Admiral of the Fleet Joined: 26 December 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 2683 |
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Still have mine- plus a new bottle of ultra cheap whisky
Edited by samuel - 21 May 2016 at 19:31 |
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Daydream Believer- Hanse 311- No GBR9917T- Bradwell Essex
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holby
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Glad to hear you still have your burgee, not to sure of the cheap whisky tho' but I'm sure if we meet up I will be catering a good whisky may even be a Cotswold whisky, which is a great whisky.
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Hanse 301, tiller steering, Volvo 2010 (10hp)
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holby
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Just to add to this post about the water seperator/fuel filter... In one of the photos you will see a small bulb pump. I have moved this as I found that this is not th best place for it... As it pressurises the suck side of the fuel system. I have moved it now to the fuel system between the new filter system and the lift pump. This then actually sucks th fuel through rather than pushes it.
It is now working fantastically well. |
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Hanse 301, tiller steering, Volvo 2010 (10hp)
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