Finally got my email working properly (I hope) and came across the below message from Ben.
To answer your question - "What kind of moron..." - in my case it was Mercedes-Benz, The diesel fuel pipes, both suction and return, attach to the bottom of the fuel tank, but the suction one is covered by a screen. After a period of time (the car is a 30-year-old 240D) the screen plugs up. The quick cure is to simply switch rubber hoses on the two pipes in the engine compartment and very soon buy a sack of $4.00 primary filters. After changing a bunch of primary filters, a five-minute job at the side of the road, the tank will be clean. Removing the strainer to clean it involves making a special tool to drive a 3/4" drive socket (for the large size hex fitting carrying the strainer) using a 3/8" drive because the strainer is right above the drive shaft. Of course, one could remove the tank too... > Just before getting on the banks, I disconnected the fuel line and stuck > it into a 5-gallon diesel jug; used that to get into Sapodilla Bay, with > the engine running just fine. Then, with gritted teeth, I took apart > nearly the entire aft end of the boat I was on to get to the top of the > tank, pulled out the intake tube, and found what I just *knew* I would > find there: an intake filter, packed with algae and other kinds of > accumulated crap. I ranted about it for most of a week. "What kind of a > moron would do something as monumentally STUPID as this????" Boy, was I > mad. :) > > > > Ben > -- > _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list Liveaboard@liveaboardonline.com To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to liveaboard-j...@liveaboardonline.com To unsubscribe send an email to liveaboard-le...@liveaboardonline.com The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/liveaboard@liveaboardnow.org The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
