John, Replace the thermostat. The engine will warm up faster, have less carbon build-up and run better for it. The engine most likely has a secondary filter. Find it and replace it with a 2 micron filter. I use Racor 10 micron filters on my primary filter.
http://www.filtercouncil.org/index.php?page=heavy-duty-diesel-fuel-filters A good overview of fuel filters. I recommend the read. Philip On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 12:17 -0500, John Christensen wrote: > > I have a Volvo md17c from 1980. It has worked well for me so far but is > starting to build some scale. I took off the thermostat housing and found > there is no thermostat inside. I wonder if I could be running the engine too > cold? > > I also want ro change the original fuelfilter setup with a racor water > separator. Some say I should use 2 micron some say 10 some even 30. The old > one is so rusted I cannot read how much it was. I am not sure if there is a > secondary filter on the engine. -- USSV ORYOKI Edenton North Carolina 'There's no point in having a plan if you're not going to pretend to follow it.' _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
