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Old 01-04-2008, 07:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Action4478
Certainly looks like air........The particles look round


Been wrong before though

(Ask my wife.)....
But then you found out you were mistaken!!
 
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Old 01-04-2008, 08:02 PM
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But then you found out you were mistaken!!
You have a good memory...

I keep tryin to loose , so I guess i'm winning....
 
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How about oil in the fuel?
 
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Old 01-16-2008, 09:20 PM
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i dont know, i can't see how oil would get in there? i know it looks like air bubbles in the pics but it physically looks like little chunks of junk
 
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Old 01-17-2008, 11:36 AM
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i've noticed mine the same color blue. i've been filling up at a high volume amoco station in south jersey for a few years. never really worried about it.
 
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Old 01-18-2008, 07:24 PM
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Could the floaties be from the filter itself? you never know could be a bad run of particular filters just a thought

 
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Old 01-18-2008, 08:07 PM
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oil could get in from leaking injector o-rings but the filter wont look clean, it will be nasty and really heavy
 
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Old 01-18-2008, 09:10 PM
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Originally Posted by c00nhunterjoe
oil could get in from leaking injector o-rings but the filter wont look clean, it will be nasty and really heavy

the filter had about 900 miles on the filter. tomorrow i'm gonna go in and put in my new FPR screen i think and ill probably go into the fuel bowl and see what kind of junk in there now.
 
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Old 01-18-2008, 09:11 PM
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oh and i HATE the plastic fuel filter lids cause they always strip out!!
 
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i saw your pictures of the filter, it looked brand new, if you had injectors leaking oil into the fuel it would be black by then
 
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Old 01-19-2008, 08:22 PM
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Cool bad news

Originally Posted by oldbird1965
How about oil in the fuel?
I opened up my fuel filter housing and there is still a ton of particles of junk. WALJON brought up a good point i missed before about possibly being particles from the filter... I also notice what looked like oil bubbles in the fuel. the only thing is that they looked very amberish in color and not dark black like used oil would look.



sorry for the crappy cell phone pic.
 
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are you sure its bubbles and not water suspended in the fuel?
 
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Old 01-19-2008, 08:44 PM
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it was deffinately bubbles, maybe it was water bubbles? i was poking at them and trying to seperate it from the fuel so i could try to figure out what it was. Do you think blackstone labritories would run a analysis like they do on oil?
 
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Are you using synthetic oil ?
 
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Any luck as to what the problem was?
 


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