Racor 500 FG, or for a little more dough, Racor 500MA, make excellent primary fuel filters and suit a 4.107 well (I have a 500FG and a 4.108). Both swirl the fuel around to separate crud and water centrifugally. If you look around on Ebay and Craig's List where you live, you might get lucky. I found a second 500FG at a sailors' flea market in Nuevo Vallarta one year at a small fraction of the retail price.
If you can get around budget and physical space constraints, install two -- that way, you don't have to shut down the engine when the filter gets clogged, just change the valve(s), keep on truckin', and replace the clogged filter on the fly. Put a pressure gauge in the line, so you can tell when the filter is starting to load up and change the filter before it becomes totally blocked. Racor will have all the parts you need. I put a 30-micron filter in the 500FG. Would like to put a 20-micron in there, but Racor doesn't offer a 20 for the 500FG -- just 30, 10, and 2. My secondary filter is a 10-micron, so putting a 2 as the primary doesn't make any sense at all; putting in a 10 is arguable. And for not very much add'l $$ you can put in an electric fuel pump, which pushes just that much more fuel through the system, eases the load on the Perkins lift pump, and eliminates the need to bleed the motor should you have to open up the fuel system. Phil s/v Cynosure Bahia de Caraquez At 11:29 AM 8/18/2010 -0700, you wrote: >I'd like to add an inline water seperator system on my diesel fuel >feed. Anyone have any positive feedback about specific vendors? or is >it more a matter of wandering around the web and getting whatever >looks popular? It seems a pretty mature tech, but is there someone out >there that offers a better system than the rest? > >Fuel flow is for a Perkins 4/107, not exactly a monster motor. I >don't mind spending for quality, but I want to be sure I get it :) _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/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.liveaboardonline.com/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
