Great advice Frank! Your experience of changing the filters off shore is exactly why I hope to get ahead the issue, in advance of our planned trip to the San Juan's in July. Sounds like I should increase my inventory of spare filters beyond the two that I currently carry.
Was this the Starbrite tank cleaner product you used? http://www.starbrite.com/item/star-tron-tank-cleaner?category_id=699 Coincidentally I am doing some arm chair sailing today from the office and just listened to this podcast interview w/ Matt Rutherford<https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/matt-rutherford-wolfhound/id711410636?i=168498241&mt=2>, who describes trying to salvage an abandoned 48 Swan. He mentions attempting to polish diesel by disconnecting the fuel line on the engine side of the filter and then pumping the diesel through the filter and into Jerry cans and repeating the process a number of times. Interesting technique. Frank, will you be at the SYSCO meeting Monday at RYC? On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Frank <n...@comcast.net> wrote: > Kevin, > > My fuel tank is very difficult to remove or even look into from the sensor > access. After I “polished” my fuel several times, the first time I was > offshore in rough conditions, I replaced my fuel filter (Racor 500) five > times in 100 miles of engine operation. The only thing that really cleaned > the fuel tank was several treatments using the tank cleaner/conditioner > made by Star Brite. The first treatment, five years ago, filled the > sediment bowl on my fuel filter nearly full with gunk. Shortly after that > I have removed some more gunk but now I rarely get anything in the sediment > bowl. I’ve been in some very rough offshore conditions but have never had > a problem with fuel filters since the original treatment. > > Good luck, > > Frank Noragon > C&C 38LF, S/N:001 > Rose City Yacht Club > Portland, Oregon > > *From:* Kevin Driscoll <kevindrisc...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Friday, January 24, 2014 1:22 PM > *To:* Dennis C. <capt...@yahoo.com> ; cnc-list@cnc-list.com > *Subject:* Re: Stus-List Advice Wanted: Cleaning out a Fuel Tank C&C > 30mkII > > All very good questions and answers. > > My thoughts are that I am going to do what I can from the access hatch (ie > remove old fuel and what solids I can), change the filter, fill er' up > again (with Stabil added) and call it good. I may buy some star brite, whic > Practical Sailor gave two thumbs up to. > > Since I am not experiencing any issues at the moment, I will save the > professional cleaning if/when they arise. > > Best, > Kevin > C&C 30mkII > Portland, OR > > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > http://www.cncphotoalbum.com > CnC-List@cnc-list.com > >
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