[Public-List] Progress on fuel issue

[Gordon Laco]

Watery and a bit sweet.  I think I was tasting water and fuel line
antifreeze.   It didn't smell gassy at all.

And no, I didn't catch any buzz from it.....

Gord #426 Surprise (who rinsed thoroughly!)


On 19/08/13 2:46 PM, "Meinhold, Michael J." <MICHAEL.J.MEINHOLD at saic.com>
wrote:

> So what DID it taste like ?????  Diesel, water or something else?

Mike
Rinn
> Duin #272

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Hello friends,

I took a
> long lunch just now and made another assault on my perplexing tank
#2
> issue.

I bought a double male hose barb, and used it to bypass the selector
> switch which directs which tank my engine is drawing from.

The engine would
> not run on fuel directly drawn from #2.    I reconnected
the selector, turned
> it to #1 and started the engine.  When it was warmed up, I switched to #2...as
> before after a minute or so the engine died.
When the engine died, I noticed
> that the fuel filter was full of liquid.
The problem isn?t the selector. The
> engine ran again once I switched it to #1.

I crawled into the portside
> cockpit locker and rechecked the fuel hose looking for twists or kinks, there
> were none.  I removed the fuel hose from the male hose barb on the top of the
> tank (very awkwardly place up high under the deck) and noticed that the hose
> was full of fuel a bit splashed on
my hands...it didn?t smell like gasoline.
> I blew through the hose and
naturally got some ?fuel? on my lips..... It
> didn?t taste nor smell like gasoline.  

So now I?m working on the theory that
> the fuel in #2 is degraded or
contaminated.    I?ve made an appointment with
> the marina to suck out the
tank tomorrow morning.   I guess I was kidding
> myself when I thought the
engine was able to run on the fuel in hose from #2
> when I was doing my testing earlier.

 I think I may be on to something at
> last.

Stand by - 

Gord #426
> Surprise
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