-Marv wrote -
What am I missing on this thread, why cant you just mount a vacuum
gauge
somewhere around the helm or for that matter anywhere on the boat and simply
run a tube from the filter to the gauge?
Marv and all - I have been wondering what sort of disaster that I had
escaped when Penta was put on the hard as I have had a "remote" fuel system
vacuum gauge, connected by small diameter copper tube, on her for the last 5
years. The gauge itself was on the console in the pilot house with the fuel
filters about 10 feet away in the engine room.
Have I really been lucky or what? I do realize that should the tube break I
would get an influx of air into the fuel system and probably have the engine
die and then dribble fuel all over everything but what is different about
that, than any other line / hose / fitting within the fuel system? Are they
not all possible sources for leaks?
At times I think we tend to become a wee bit anal over "possibilities"
rather than spending that time enjoying our boats.
Feeling very lucky
John Tones MV Penta
Sidney BC
-Marv wrote -
What am I missing on this thread, why cant you just mount a vacuum
gauge
somewhere around the helm or for that matter anywhere on the boat and simply
run a tube from the filter to the gauge?
Marv and all - I have been wondering what sort of disaster that I had
escaped when Penta was put on the hard as I have had a "remote" fuel system
vacuum gauge, connected by small diameter copper tube, on her for the last 5
years. The gauge itself was on the console in the pilot house with the fuel
filters about 10 feet away in the engine room.
Have I really been lucky or what? I do realize that should the tube break I
would get an influx of air into the fuel system and probably have the engine
die and then dribble fuel all over everything but what is different about
that, than any other line / hose / fitting within the fuel system? Are they
not all possible sources for leaks?
At times I think we tend to become a wee bit anal over "possibilities"
rather than spending that time enjoying our boats.
Feeling very lucky
John Tones MV Penta
Sidney BC
