Fuel filters
02-28-2018, (Subject: Fuel filters ) 
Post: #7
RE: Fuel filters
So Rawze saying he had a 10 Micron filter and his tanks being squeaky clean made me look a little deeper in to going with a smaller micron filter in my Davco. I've always noticed the black line in the bottom of my tank. Which I've recently learned is probably Asphaltene and I want that crap out of my tank. So I'm thinking a smaller filter will catch this stuff. I have a 06 International with a CM870 with the 382 Davco. It's recommended that I go with a 50 micron filter. I was up front afraid to jump the filter to 10 microns for fear of the pumps not being able to pull the fuel thru the filter properly.

Rawze's truck I believe is a 2010 cm870 and should've came factory with the 10 micron fleetguard filter in it. Or at least that's what the fleetguard/davco filter sheet says. So of course he used it since day one.

Well, I finally said screw it, and threw a 10 micron filter in. The 1st thing I noticed is the Davco filled up almost all the way to the top. Which is what I feared. The fuel wasn't pulling thru the filter fast enough and the engine was stuttering. I left it sit for a moment and fired it off again. Same thing with the fuel level but the stuttering was going away. So I ran it awhile and the level didn't change but the engine began running fine. So I figure the filter needed to saturate fully to pull fuel thru it but it's too full to last very long before it's plugged and restricted again. So I cracked the cap on top of the Davco and bled some of the fuel back to the tanks to lower the fuel in it. It worked and stayed there. I'm now currently monitoring the fuel level and how fast this filter plugs, but after 2 days everything seems fine.
I'll post more if this changes and what the results are, of my black line in the bottom of the tank. If it went away or not.
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Messages In This Thread
Fuel filters - Mrkentee - 01-26-2018,
RE: Fuel filters - Mrkentee - 01-26-2018,
RE: Fuel filters - Starlight - 01-26-2018,
RE: Fuel filters - Mrkentee - 01-26-2018,
RE: Fuel filters - Rawze - 01-27-2018,
RE: Fuel filters - Chamberpains - 02-28-2018
RE: Fuel filters - Rawze - 02-28-2018,
RE: Fuel filters - flonly - 03-05-2018,



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