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tjbeggs 01-04-2008 07:57 PM


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!!

Action4478 01-04-2008 08:02 PM


Originally Posted by tjbeggs
But then you found out you were mistaken!!

You have a good memory...:-D

I keep tryin to loose , so I guess i'm winning....:-X16

oldbird1965 01-16-2008 07:57 PM

How about oil in the fuel?

IceboxFX 01-16-2008 09:20 PM

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

96P_Stroke4x4 01-17-2008 11:36 AM

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.

WALJON 01-18-2008 07:24 PM

Could the floaties be from the filter itself? you never know could be a bad run of particular filters just a thought

:-X20 :-X20 :-X20

c00nhunterjoe 01-18-2008 08:07 PM

oil could get in from leaking injector o-rings but the filter wont look clean, it will be nasty and really heavy

IceboxFX 01-18-2008 09:10 PM


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.

IceboxFX 01-18-2008 09:11 PM

oh and i HATE the plastic fuel filter lids cause they always strip out!!

c00nhunterjoe 01-18-2008 09:11 PM

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

IceboxFX 01-19-2008 08:22 PM

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.

http://inlinethumb14.webshots.com/40...500x500Q85.jpg

sorry for the crappy cell phone pic.

c00nhunterjoe 01-19-2008 08:24 PM

are you sure its bubbles and not water suspended in the fuel?

IceboxFX 01-19-2008 08:44 PM

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?

WALJON 01-19-2008 08:58 PM

Are you using synthetic oil ?

scatgo 01-21-2008 11:19 AM

Any luck as to what the problem was?


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