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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | 4amuskie - 3/31/2019 6:48 PM
Guess I'm calling Mercury for wasting money on these fuel filters. Thieves.
Always entertaining Steve. Always :)
That is only if you choose to throw it out... I pull mine each year, empty the fuel from it out the bottom and it's just fuel....I then take the filter off and dump everything out let it sit for a couple of hours... I have had absolutely no water...EVER in mine running E10 fuel. I then just reinstall the filter.... No cost to me...
As stated before...the ONLY way enough water would EVER get into your fuel system is if it is somehow EXTERNALLY INTRODUCED. Condensation would never be enough, and due to the system Steve Worrall is talking about, it would rarely ever happen... A 20 gallon tank would need the amount of a 12 ounce Pepsi to get close to being at a point it would phase separate due to the alcohol bonding with the water intrusion. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY that you would get that much condensation inside of a tank, surrounded by foam flotation, under 3/4" of plywood. AND...with the ambient air being WARMER than the air in your fuel tank in almost every situation, we will let physics do it's work. WARM AIR RISES MY FRIEND... It cannot travel DOWN a vent tube to an fuel tank no matter how humid it is outside...
You get water into a tank of Non oxy...its going right into your motor without that fuel water separator. Now stop and think about WHY THAT FILTER HAS BEEN INSTALLED..... It's there because if people decided NOT to use E10, they are doing what they can to PROTECT the engine. Again...not rocket science here....
Steve |
