Anyone out there successfully using the Racor LFS remote-mount filters for SVO/WVO? Joshua Tickell recommends them in "From the Fryer to the Fuel Tank" but someone - Ed from Neoteric - said he'd heard that they were hard to clean. But I just talked to a guy who uses them on several WVO-powered vehicles, and says they're very easy to clean.
For those not familiar with them, they are designed as remote-mount engine oil filters (but can be used for filtering any oil including vegetable oil) and have a stainless mesh screen that's removable - you loosen four nuts, pull the disc-shaped mesh screen out, wash it in solvent, and pop it back it. The smaller size is available in 28 micron - good for pre-filtering, and is also available with a dash-mounted light that alerts you when it's full of crud and has gone into bypass mode. Which would be an alternative to a vacuum gauge. The larger unit is available is 28, 10 and 2 micron - and I'd probably go with the 10 micron. The advantage of these units is that there's no need to buy replaceable paper filter elements (or add them to the landfill.) Another claimed advantage (by the guy who uses them) is that it's his opinion that unless heated, paper filters will clog when used with SVO/WVO. Anyone have any experience to the contrary? The only disadvantage to them I can see (unless they really are hard to clean) is that they don't separate out water. I plan to pre-filter WVO or SVO before I add it to the tank with West Marine's Baja Fuel Filter - a large aluminum funnel with three stacked filtering screens, one of which filters out water. But for those of you running SVO or WVO without fuel filters with water separators - any problems traceable to water in you fuel? Thanks in advance, Craig ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Quit now for Great American Smokeout http://us.click.yahoo.com/0vN8tD/9pSDAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
