my water in fuel light will not go off ive tried everything i drained
the water separator what else can i do

 

Change the fuel filter. Check your tank fuel. Did you just fill it? Could be that you got some bad fuel. After you change the filter and restart if you have the water in fuel light again drain the filter housing into a clear clean container, see if you really do have water in the fuel. If you have the light but no water maybe a bad sensor. If you have water you probably need to drop the tank and clean it out. Good luck.

 

Best Practices:

(1) Purging/draining the fuel-water separator was the right first thing to do and should be done periodically anyway [before the light comes on].

(2) Another good p/m [preventative maintenance] practice is to run the specified dose of a fuel treatment/additive such as "Diesel Kleen" through about every couple months or half-dozen tank-fulls. This will clean injectors, boost cetane, blah, blah, etc....

(3) Run speicified dose of "Water Zorb" [green-label diesel version, not red-label gas version] thru a tank-full of fuel. Can combine with Diesel Kleen above.... A must for boaters; find at some auto or most marine stores....

(4) Diesel fuel is more hydrophilic than gasoline: that is, it tends to absord water. Keep your tanks full of fuel, especially in colder or more humid climates. Don't let sit with less than half tank as such will encourage water condensation inside the tank as daily/nightly temp cycles change.

(4) Change fuel filter at specified intervals. [Note: if you're not doing the above, changing the filter won't help!]

(5) If you're doing the above, then, unless you submarine it, you shouldn't have to drop the tanks.

Hope this helps.

-T

 

Since you were having a problem now, and asked for help in that context I gave the recommendations above. TCG17321 gave you some good advice also. However, if you have water in fuel, don't assume that it is within the limits of additives to remove. They don't remove it anyway they change the water in some form. Some claim to seperate it where your filter/seperator will segregate it. Don't use additives with alcohol. If the additives change water into something that will pass the filter and burn with the fuel you still don't want it going through your injectors. If you have la arge amount of water in you fuel you will have to drop the tank. That is not a difficult thing to do after you have pumped it out and it is the 100% certain thing that will get all the water out of your tank. But try the easy stuff first, change your filter, drain the filter housing if the light comes on again. Maybe install a Dahl or Raycor filter seperator in the future.

Good Luck.

 

Agreed. OneOf6 is right. If there's already too much water in the tank, it may be beyond the ability of fuel treatment methologies to remedy and you may have to drain the tank....