Generator Question

Good news on the fuel issue.

When did you escape Tangas?

According to the Marina Manager at RQ this morning 6:00am it was 60 knots at Manly this morning. The north end of the marina was rising and falling 1.5 metres with the waves entering the mouth ... Lots of boats snapping springers.

Glad to hear you're home safe.

PS I think you've talked me into a hookah ...

Hi,
We just got our asses off the beach which has benefited from the ass end of an anti cyclone or two

The press would like us to believe it is the end of life as we know it but as growers and farmers have bores I doubt it.

GP if you could PM mr yourve mail addy, I would be happy to send you the pics of my torpedo with 23 big snapper and 2 kawhai as bait far the next trick in the morning

My aft tank developed some funny long/stringy/snot stuff again. Thought I had filtered it out, oh well.

Instead of throwing two things at once at it, I'm trying the "Clear Tank Diesel" first (from NAPA). 80 oz of product rite at 125 gallons like the instructions says. I also washed it out of the bottle and down the fill hose with some fresh street diesel. Running the polishing pump tonight for a few hours to ensure it's mixed well.

I'll report back with any observed results found in the Racor bowls.

Nothing is starving for fuel,,, yet.. The big Racors have drawn a bunch of that snot and pulled some vacuum. That stuff does not drain from the Racor bowl well. Even thru the big hole and I have to remove the bowl for cleaning.
Thank goodness for dual filters.
I burned all the fuel from the aft, added about 100 gallons of fresh diesel, now starting my experiments. It's a 550 tank but funds are low, were not scheduled to move for another couple of months and maybe I found a way to learn and play with my fuel.

Use the shock treatment concentration. The clear tank diesel should dissolve the algae, the Bio-Kleen is a biocide to keep it from coming back. I would use both, personally. Let me know your results. But, if you are getting algae like that, you are definately getting some moisture in the tank.

Well, two months later, over 150 hours on the polishing pump. I did notice the Racor bowls looked pale for the first few nights but went back to the normal red within the week. I added another half bottle last month with 5 gallons of fresh diesel to wash it down the fill hose. The vacuum at the pickup never went down so I pulled the pickup last weekend and found a mess on the screens.
I was hoping the "Clear Tank" would dissolve the goo. Maybe to high of expatiations.
I did cut the screens off like I did the forward tank a few months ago.

I'm not to impressed still But I'll keep running the pumps.
Bunkering next week and off the dock by next weeks end.

Not sure how good the NAPA stuff is but we use industrial strength treatments on the ferries and workboats.

http://www.schuelke.com/download/pdf/FLY_2483_grotamar82_Boot_GB_ECHA.pdf Pdf

grotamar 82 PKW/ LKW/ Schifffahrt - Schülke - the plus of pure performance

I can't find who imports/sells it in the US or Canada, (brand name change???) but they have offices everywhere.

I didn't mean the NAPA brand, Just I ordered the Power Service product CaptJ recommended from NAPA.

Over two months and I have another up date.

After two treatments of Power Service I have No Joy to report. The filtering pumps have a few hundred hours on them, the color of the fuel in the Racor bowls have a rude, pale haze to it.
When we run the boat, if the bow comes up a few degrees, the Racors are full of the snot in 10 minutes (remember, no pick up screen).
I have realized that my aft tank has a forward drop (or slope) and this low area holds all this tank snot. It flows aft when the bow comes up. Our pick ups are in the aft part of the tank and returns forward, where the snot is hiding.
This weekend while everybody has a holiday weekend on the north river, we will be doing bow raising drills heading south. We have dual 1000 Racors on each engine.
By swapping filters and supply tanks, I should be able to dump a few bowls of the goo. Maybe clear the aft tank of the heavy stuff or at least determine if I can make any gains on the goo before calling in the tank servicing people.

The old Detroit fuel pumps can suck a golf ball thru a garden hose. Not my gen-sets. Forward tank still crystal clear and da gennys are happy there.

O K, I gotta know, What's wrong with the gear? Your clutch, piston & seal was (I thought) your fix.
,Ralph