A decent secondary filter will not pass water and will
plug up instead specifically to avoid these horrors.
Normally if there is no fuel flow and you suspect water
contamination replacing all of the filters and draining
any water from the supply will solve the problem.
This is
from experience with Cats and Detroit
Diesels and may not apply to Rovers. However, I
think it
is general practice.
Bill Lawrence
Peter Ogilvie wrote:
> Unless there is a water separator in the fuel filter
> system, water will pass through the filter and on into
> the fuel delivery components. This is a big problem
> as the little itty bitty parts don't like corrosion,
> one bit. You might want to add a water separator
> filter to the beast, if it doesn't already have one.
> Racor, for one, makes nice water separator filters.
>
> Your problem sounds like restricted fuel flow,
> however. Dirty fuel or a rusty tank can clog up a
> filter right now. I'd change the filter and see if
> that solves the problem. Also checking that there is
> nothing obstructing the fuel flow might be a good
> idea. The fuel pick-ups in the tank are notorious for
> becoming clogged. Also, put in a Biocide. Little
> critters grow in diesel and, over time, can build up
> quite a bunch of gunk in the tank. My Mercedes has
> about a quarter tank of crap in it because the PO
> didn't use a Biocide. Unfortunately, will have to R&R
> the tank to clean it out.
>
> Aloha
> Peter O.
>
>
> --- Steve Lister <steve_lister@voyager.net> wrote:
> >
> > After changing the fuel filter in my Series III 109
> > Diesel I experienced
> > good results for awhile but then the thing began to
> > exhibit the same
> > problems I was having before the change which seemed
> > to be fuel
> > starvation. The old filter had some nasty looking
> > stuff come out of it
> > so I had assumed my problem was simply the fuel
> > filter and since it ran
> > so well after changing it I thought I had fixed the
> > problem. I am now
> > suspecting that I got a bad tank of diesel fuel on
> > my last fill up. Is
> > there any additive that "dries" out diesel? The
> > symptoms are that the
> > thing runs fine at idle but as revs increase the
> > engine wants to die.
> > It also seems to be worse when the vehicle is
> > heading up a hill. The
> > second question would be is there any fuel filter
> > available at American
> > parts stores that fit the Rover since I would think
> > that I should change
> > the filter again if it gets water in it.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Steve
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