Tweet
Just installed the new Racor fuel filter this weekend. Don, your suggestion to install an priming bulb between the gas tank and the filter is excellent! It saved me a ton of time and avoided what would have been a very messy job had I followed Racor's suggesting of filling the bowl with gasoline and then "spinning" it back on...if you could see the contortions I'd have to go through in my C&C 30 to do this, you know that I'd be wearing some of that gasoline and the rest would be in my bilge.
Best of all the priming bulb helped me detect a leak in the port fittings in the filter. Turns out I had non NPT brass fittings...Racor recommends steel plated NPT in/out port fittings but I did not have any. I thought the brass ones I had worked fine.....until I pressurized the system with the bulb....leaks everywhere at the fittings...better to find out now than after launching! I then spent a while running around different specialty shops until I found the fittings ( a local hydraulic shop had them). Filter is now fully installed with no leaks. Thanks to that priming bulb idea!
Incidentally, Don, others may also have trouble finding those fittings and I don't think there is a note about them being so essential on your Racor page in the online catalogue....you might want to include a note about this....better yet, add them to your inventory...I would gladly have bought two off you with the filter had I known I needed them.
Best of all the priming bulb helped me detect a leak in the port fittings in the filter. Turns out I had non NPT brass fittings...Racor recommends steel plated NPT in/out port fittings but I did not have any. I thought the brass ones I had worked fine.....until I pressurized the system with the bulb....leaks everywhere at the fittings...better to find out now than after launching! I then spent a while running around different specialty shops until I found the fittings ( a local hydraulic shop had them). Filter is now fully installed with no leaks. Thanks to that priming bulb idea!
Incidentally, Don, others may also have trouble finding those fittings and I don't think there is a note about them being so essential on your Racor page in the online catalogue....you might want to include a note about this....better yet, add them to your inventory...I would gladly have bought two off you with the filter had I known I needed them.
Comment