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Airtex G17 is the OEM... think its discontinued
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Any specific methodology you want me to follow?Hi Ray- the g-17 was split and sucking air.
Ray just as an aside the unit has no problem starting either with the arctic/espar having been run or not. It starts very well. The problem is making temp and holding temp and eventually dying due to fuel issue which I am still getting to bottom of.
The water made it past it to the 90 degree fuel fitting elbow from fuel tank before the fuel pump.
Cannot figure out source for water. Tank lid gasket very tight. No indication of water in bulk tank (clear bowl on bulk tank) and dipped tank for water indication.
Have ordered new strainers.
NextAL - I need to get everything tightened up and get some cold weather to do a comparison. I'm familiar with the silicone matts, they sure do a great job. I may look at them next. Once I have strainer back in I will be in position to compare.
Another hypothesis is given rad proximity to tank, I could have had water in running tank for a long time.
This whole cold season if it was -10 F or below, my protocol was always to run the arctic heater/espar and bring set to 180F before starting.
With the rad vent cover nearly blocked at top while running spar/artic heater this would have raised fuel tank above ambient by quite a bit and prevented fuel from gelling.