Thread: Water Filter Trap

As promised, here's a drawing of the plate:





I made my one out of 4mm steel, which is probably a bit of an overkill, but thats all I had to hand

Cheers,

Tim

Thanks Tim for the photos and information. Very valuable indeed!

Is it easily installed by someone with limited mechanical knowledge, or should I have it installed by a mechanic?

Good job Tim

Hopefully I should get a chance now to fit my one now that you have done all the hard work.
I have been away for a few weeks in Ulster due to a family bereavement so never got the chance to fit it.

Brian.

Originally Posted by TimNZ

As promised, here's a drawing of the plate...
I made my one out of 4mm steel, which is probably a bit of an overkill, but thats all I had to hand

Originally Posted by sashadidi

Does that fuel manager bowl have a water warning light? alarm which might be useful?

As I am looking in to this myself and to answer sashadidi there does seem to be an Electronic "water-in-fuel" indicator that should screw to the bottom of the bowl or filter. It may be expensive.

I think the bowl, which gives an extra 70mL of water capacity, combined with the indicator should offer enough protection. As long as everyone knows what the light means (as it is not an alarm) and the bowl is checked reasonably often.

our JCB has thisa type of filter with warning light indicator.
I was looking at it recently and it wasnt conected to the correct wire in the plug.
My boss said the harness was sent as a warranty fix for the light flashing intermitantly..

the english web sites show a reverse flow primer pump-the filter in our back hoes[JCB,CAT] blocks up regularly without any crap in the glass bowl.reverse flow helps.

I was wondering what pressure these are rated at.I wanted to rig up a petrol filter for the falcon.racor 110 is rated at 100PSI for efi cars.and some other racor are rated at 30 psi.

I'm also interested in adding the water collection bowl to the standard fuel filter.

Just a question: Once the collection bowl is screwed to the bottom of the filter, how the water and dirty could fall in the transparent cup ? Apparently there are no gap or holes that allow the water/dirty to flow from the bottom of the standard filter to the the bottom of the cup.

Could you please better explain how the collection bowl work ?

Thanking in advance,

Mario