navyjoe
Bronze Member
Last summer I posted a problem with water in fuel. Well I thought I had gotten it all out. Wrong!! I was running my through the field 2 days ago and sputter sputter and it quit. Right in the middle of a mud hole of course! (Ran fine in the barn). Anyway I looked down and my fuel filter was 2/3 empty. I unscewed it and heard the air hiss in when I loosened it. As it turned out a little bit of water froze in the hose in a low point and blocked the flow. I was able to manually fill the fuel bowl twice and run the engine long enough to get it back to the barn. Well today I went out and smelled diesel fuel (About 5 gallons of fuel that I will be smelling for years to come in my gravel and dirt barn). Well bummer, the line had thawed, and I found out that I had managed to not properly tighten the bowl ring.
I have a real gripe with 2 people on this.
One is the dummy that did the work changing the fuel filter. Ought to fire that guy, but since he is me, I'm forced to keep him on.
The other is the guy that designed that fuel filter setup. I just know they told him to design it to be as hard as possible, to put as many lines and other suff as possible in the way so that a 5 minute job would only take 2 hours.
Actually I have one other gripe. The O ring. I had to buy a new one last summer. Would you believe it has swelled. Its too big to go inside of the filter housing. That is the reason it leaked. I thought it was tight, but as it turns out the O ring was bulging and got caught in the threads. I bought the O ring from the NH dealer, pricey I might add, and now I find it swells when exposed to diesel fuel. Anyone know of an alternate supplier? Do you know the specs on it?
I have a real gripe with 2 people on this.
One is the dummy that did the work changing the fuel filter. Ought to fire that guy, but since he is me, I'm forced to keep him on.
The other is the guy that designed that fuel filter setup. I just know they told him to design it to be as hard as possible, to put as many lines and other suff as possible in the way so that a 5 minute job would only take 2 hours.
Actually I have one other gripe. The O ring. I had to buy a new one last summer. Would you believe it has swelled. Its too big to go inside of the filter housing. That is the reason it leaked. I thought it was tight, but as it turns out the O ring was bulging and got caught in the threads. I bought the O ring from the NH dealer, pricey I might add, and now I find it swells when exposed to diesel fuel. Anyone know of an alternate supplier? Do you know the specs on it?