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Old 03-25-2016, 11:18 PM
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if you turn the key with the valve open and without a hose hooked up, fuel will hit the ceiling......


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I can personally atest to this!


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so its a sediment trap for water.

I recall them on old japanese diesel engines, they had a screw type job on the bottom - just unscrew it, catch all the drain in a pan - prime the filter again and start it up.

some even had a basic switch on the tap. once shorted with water a lamp lit up on the dashboard.
A few decades ago I owned an Isuzu I6 5.9 liter diesel, that had an aftermarket Racor brand fuel filter / water separator installed at the fuel tank. Worked great!

I've got a water separator as standard equipment on my 2002 Ford Power stroke diesel 7.3 liter V8. I've never had any residue come out of the manual release valve, nor, water-in-fuel instrument cluster indicator light come in 14-years now.

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