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I have some personal experience with what I though was a well engineered and installed fuel filting system. I had three sets of filter and it was running all the time, It appeared to be doing a great job. The main engines Rocors have never been dirty, infact I never had any fuel side peoblems in the five years I've owned this boat a 1998 66' Choey Lee Long Range. As of today I have put a little over 7000 hours of cruseing on her or about 68,000 gal. of fuel through the tanks. Two years ago while the boat was out of the water
Safety Clean was working in the yard and talked me into cleaning me tanks. Well when we open the man-holes the muck was two inchs deep in the bottons of the tanks.
To keep this short after steam cleaning I removed the filter-type fuel cleaning system and installed a Alfa Laval Centrifugal fuel purifier. It has a flow rate of 200 GPH not the 40 or 50 the filter system had. Now for the kicker, A mount ago I found that one of the tank top man holes was leaking and we made made a run up Virginia to burn off some fuel just in case that it was more than replaceing a gasket. When we open up the tank it looked as if it had just been cleaned. In the past two years i've bought fuel in three coutrary and some of it was not to good. If you have the room about 4sq.ft. a centrifugal unit is the only way to go.
There are no filters to deal with and all you do is drain off the contaminates. The unit was a little on the pricey side but in my case I did not need to replace any fuel transfer piping.
This is not new technology you could say it's old as the hills the new technology is to build it in a light weight compact package. Now if I could raplace my HRO watermaker with
one of new distillation type units I would be a very happy boater.
Capt. Robert Moore
M/V MAKAI
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