Another fuel system setup question - fuel / water filter before or after mech pump?
06-02-2015 | 11:16 PM
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06-03-2015 | 06:16 AM
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Boat rolled over 95mph last trip out last year. He and 1 other ejected boat landed upright. No lanyard kept running. Somehow cam back to an idle wheel turn all the way one direction boat spinning in a circle. Late in the day middle of the Bay no boats on the water. One made it back in and shut it down. Yeah, some people can do it all wrong and get away with it. Some can't.
06-03-2015 | 06:27 AM
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Mild, I replied to one of your posts on another thread talking about filter heads for fuel/water separators. You posted a link to Fleet Filters for a filter head, along with a link to a fuel/water separator (PN 33405). I don't have room on my setup for a filter that long, so I'm trying to find a shorter filter that will work with that unit. Found PN 33244, similar specs. Will that one work? Can't remember if it was labeled as a fuel/water separator, but I think the water just settles to the bottom anyway. Let me know if that one will work.
06-03-2015 | 07:38 AM
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I personally wouldn't run the fuel filter/water seperator before the pump. If you want a filter before the pump then run an additional filter that doesn't filter to as low of a micron level so it doesn't restrict flow as much, but I dont believe this is really necessary with the stock mechanical pump. Filter before the pump is going to restrict flow to the pump, filter after gives some slight pressure downstream of the filter. Better to have a little positive pressure at the pump then to restrict that flow to it.
06-03-2015 | 08:30 AM
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I personally wouldn't run the fuel filter/water seperator before the pump. If you want a filter before the pump then run an additional filter that doesn't filter to as low of a micron level so it doesn't restrict flow as much, but I dont believe this is really necessary with the stock mechanical pump. Filter before the pump is going to restrict flow to the pump, filter after gives some slight pressure downstream of the filter. Better to have a little positive pressure at the pump then to restrict that flow to it.
Edit: Oops - Now I see that you were replying to my original question, not my more recent one.
