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Oct 28, 2024 | 03:12 PM

Bruze99

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Water seperator

Customer complains he gets water in his fuel too frequently . He went out and purchased an inline fuel/water seperator and wants it installed. The factory filter on top of the engine seems to do the job to me . Besides that the engine compartment is too crowded to easily install it there. Any ideas out there.? The seperator is similar to the ones found on medium sized farm and construction equipment manufactured by WIX, etc..

Oct 28, 2024 | 05:50 PM

Pikachu

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I mounted mine under the truck and plumbed it in between the tank and the pump. I used the Stanadyne FM100 series with a 20 micron element. Too dark to get a pic right now, but I can get one tomorrow if you want it.

Oct 29, 2024 | 03:51 PM

Bruze99

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Hay thanks for the reply Pikachu. I thought about putting it exactly there but was worried it may snag something and get yanked loose. Have you had anything like that happen?

Oct 29, 2024 | 06:13 PM

Pikachu

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Hay thanks for the reply Pikachu. I thought about putting it exactly there but was worried it may snag something and get yanked loose. Have you had anything like that happen?

No, I've never had any problems with it being there.

Oct 30, 2024 | 12:00 AM

marksman76

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I just had the Racor Water separator installed under truck 2WD near cross member.

Oct 30, 2024 | 08:50 AM

nydiver

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If I suspected contaminated fuel source, I'd stop using that source. Customer understands HE'S going to have to monitor and empty that bowl, and if he has such an issue with water he's going to be doing it often. Maybe check the vent on the bulk tank (I'm going assume its a farmer/rancher with a 1000+ gal bulk tank) to ensure its working properly and not stuck open allowing moisture to condensate in the tank freely. Also add a water separator to the bulk tank and on every bulk fill dump a gallon of diesel 911 in before the fill. If all checks out, thief a sample of the diesel at delivery to ensure you don't find diesel / water separation occurring before they put it in the tank, make sure those SOB's aren't thinning the diesel for higher profits.

Oct 30, 2024 | 09:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Bruze99

You said fuel so will assume its an oil burner... have you considered the Parker SNAPP filter set up? They have 3 different flavors for them; 2 micron (actually 4 micron at 98%), 10 micron and 30 micron with same efficiency of 98%. It's also a water separator as well.

The marine filters, white body, come a stainless steel.bracket IIRC. The use the standard size SAE quick connects, male fitting on the filter, i have one installed on my 6.7 that came with the original Gen 2 kit for S&Ss disaster prevention kit.

This is the black kit, not marine, here...

https://ph.parker.com/us/es/product/...racor/23106-10

Here's the marine version...
https://www.parker.com/content/dam/P..._-_RSL0154.pdf

You can.buy them here...

https://www.racorstore.com/racor/snapp-filters.html

Here's the Parker page with all the different part numbers. They have them with drains and without drains..

https://ph.parker.com/us/en/product-...eparator-racor

Last edited by Overkill2; Oct 30, 2024 at 09:38 AM. Reason: add link and info