Suggest having a fuel polishing service come down to the boat and take care of it. It is a simple process and hands down the best solution to your issue. Three of my neighboring boat owners had it done and can't say enough good things about the results. Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
-----Original Message----- From: ron hammill <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 08:05:50 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [UnifliteWorld] Fuel Tanks..... Coastline or Vetus both northwest companies which will build tanks to order. However I think I would continue the filter replacement and keep flushing new fuel thru the engine in hopes it will fix itself. > Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 07:52:48 -0700 > Subject: [UnifliteWorld] Fuel Tanks..... > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > I'm pretty new to this site and to Uniflite ownership. bought a 1970 > 27' Express about a month and a half ago. It's in reasonable shape, > twin 318's,but I don't really think it's been used much in the past > 8-10 years. Just been mostly sitting at the dock. > > Well, since I've bought it, I've been running it. Almost every day. > Figure I'll work the bugs out of it plus make my list off projects for > the off-season. Biggest issue so far: Fuel tanks. > > The port tank is really bad. Full of crud. Ran it about 55nm yesterday > and had to replace the canister filter element three times. The > starboard tank is better, not nearly as much junk. But here is one > issue: When I try to run both engines off the starboard tank, the port > engine will behave like it's starved for fuel, won't go above 2600RPM > or so. Wasn't like that just a month ago when I bought it. > > Otherwise, I think these tanks are going to have to go. Anybody with > any thoughts, ideas or recommendations? > > Thanks, > > MAH > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "UnifliteWorld" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/unifliteworld?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "UnifliteWorld" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/unifliteworld?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "UnifliteWorld" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/unifliteworld?hl=en.
