That is exactly how I just installed mine. I bought a liquid-filled stainless
gauge though, probably about $18 for the gauge alone.Bruce Sent from Samsung
tablet.
-------- Original message --------From: Josh Muckley via CnC-List
<cnc-list@cnc-list.com> Date: 5/24/20 6:43 PM (GMT-05:00) To: C&C List
<cnc-list@cnc-list.com> Cc: Josh Muckley <muckl...@gmail.com> Subject: Re:
Stus-List Diesel Filter Regarding Joe's post: the official Racor vacuum gage is
designed to fit the 500 series racor. The smaller one like I show in my video
is no longer available new but was frequently installed on our era boats and is
likely to still be on many of them. It is a 200 series. The 200 series has no
provision for a t-handle (rather a band clamp) so the official t-gage won't
fit. In my video I show having used a brass tee, 2 hose barbs, a street elbow,
and an El cheapo vacuum gage which I believe I procured from Amazon. The total
package was less than $20. The hose barbs allow it to be installed anywhere on
the fuel hose connecting between the racor and the engine.Josh Muckley S/V Sea
Hawk 1989 C&C 37+Solomons, MDOn Sun, May 24, 2020, 18:15 Joe Della Barba via
CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote:
A vacuum gauge is one of the best cost/benefit ratio improvements
you can do. You can save a lot of $$$ in unneeded filter changes
and get advanced warning when you do need to change one.
Be official:
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=racor+gauge&_sacat=0
Cockpit mount with light:
https://moyermarine.com/product/vacuum-gauge-kit-gaug_07-1_532/
(also can be used for manifold vacuum)
Cheap:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/2-1-2-Vacuum-Gauge-Chrome-Plated-Steel-Case-1-4-NPT-Lower-Mnt-30-inHg-0/183642544745?hash=item2ac1f2da69:g:2gUAAOSwJiBcQOWz
https://www.ebay.com/itm/LIQUID-FILLED-VACUUM-GAUGE-30-0-PSI-2-5-FACE-1-4-NPT-LOWER-MOUNT-WOG/192746480989?hash=item2ce095e55d:g:RiQAAOSwqoxcBW9S
Joe Coquina C&C 35 MK I
On 5/24/2020 3:39 PM, bwhitmore via
CnC-List wrote:
Time and again I have read
that Yanmar does not recommend a 2/3 micron primary filter. I
therefore use a 10 micron, and use Biobar, as well as some
Seafoam. I have some old crud in my tank, but where I can
see it through the hole for the sender, the bits I can see are
pretty well stuck to the bottom of the tank (and there are not
many of them). That said, the boat had sat at the dock for
+/- 6 years before I got her, and we have run 150 gallons or
so of fuel through the boat in the last 4 years.
I change my Racor every
year, and I used to change the one on the engine every year as
well. This time, I'm going to let the engine mounted one go
another year. We still get a fine layer of black "grit" at
the bottom of the racor over the year, but it does not appear
to hinder the running of the engine.
I'd rather swap out a $20
filter once a year than risk the engine shutting down as I go
through a bridge opening with 3 kts. of current.
To each their own,
Bruce
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