Hi, I had a very similar problem last year, although it cost me a tow to figure it out. Eventually we had the tank taken out and cleaned. It wasn’t cheap, but it gives me a lot more confidence for next year.
Cheers, Dennis Dennis Peters dennis.k.pet...@gmail.com > On Nov 14, 2018, at 15:42, DON JONSSON via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> > wrote: > > The other day when motoring the engine quit when pulling into the marina. > Got it going again to make the slip but then it quit again. Repeat a few > times. We thought the most likely culprit was the new fuel gauge not being > configured correctly and had run out of diesel. Second culprit may be dirty > fuel as had been sailing with very little fuel in the tank and that could > stir things up. > > So the next day we began the investigation. > > We hadn't run out of diesel and there is about 1/4 of a tank. Checked the > primary filter which is new and it doesn't look too bad. Started the engine > again and it ran and then quit a couple of times. Trying again we rev'd it > hard just before it could die and it kept going even when we put it back to > idle. Now it seems to run fine. But it doesn't instil confidence. > > In the C&C fuel tank you can take out the gauge and you have a little (2 > inch?) hole you can see into the tank. We put a camera in there and can see > the bottom of the tank is about 50% covered with black. The rest shines. If > you swirl a stick in there the black sediment is definitely light and moves. > > So perhaps it is the fuel filters. The secondary filter is not one you can > look into so it could be there. Sailing the boat with little fuel in a > following sea would definitely stir things up. But why is the engine running > well now if it is a plugged filter? Why didn't it require bleeding? > > We got a quote to polish the fuel tank and it is decidedly not cheap. In > fact I'd go all the way to damned expensive. > > So the questions: > > 1. Has anyone else had a similar experience and was it the fuel filters? We > never had to bleed the lines and the engine now runs fine. > > 2. Does anyone have another idea as to what it could be? The engine only has > 500 hours on it and starts and runs like a top (if you forgive the two > alternators we have already gone through. Manufacturing fault on both > claimed by alternator repair people.) > > 3. Can someone give advice on how to clean the fuel. We have access in the > front of the tank but not behind the baffle which is about in the middle (I > think). The hole is small to options seem limited. Can you dissolve the > sediment? How did you flush it all out? > > Thanks for any help. > > Don Jonsson > Andante, C&C 34 > Victoria > > > > > Sent from my iPad > _______________________________________________ > > Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each and > every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - use > PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray > _______________________________________________ Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each and every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - use PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray
