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- Dec 2, 2018
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- Age
- 39
- Location
- Charleston SC
- Model
- Sailfish
My fuel fill already has the plastic lip on the fuel fill as you show.My Islander has a recess on the gunnel where the fuel fills are located. Water runs down the boat, drops into this pocket and floods around the fuel fill. Probably makes leaving the fuel fill cap off especially problematic. Apparently Perko has figured this out and ships a 3/8" spacer with the new vented fuel fills (also cn be purchased separately). It's has a radius edge and diverts the water away and around the cap.
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I also had a problem with adding stabilizer to my boat that was running fine only to have it stall after a short run with water in the filters. This happened to me two different years. Not sure if it was phase separation or what.
I found it difficult and expensive to remove fuel from the boat and dispose of it. I wound up cleaning it up and running it out in the boat.
I would cleanup my tanks using the Serira clear bowl and filters. If you stall the boat (way too much water in filters) I would drop the engine filters and primary filter cans, dump into to container, decant the fuel and put back into filter and top off with clean fuel from a container. Always fill filters up even if you just run out of gas (forget primer bulb) or you will be there forever. You could just dump it all and replace with clean fuel. Put them back up and run the boat. The running of the boat agitates the water and makes it easier to pickup. You may have to do this several times to really clean the tanks up.
Be careful with the resultant fuel. If it had ethanol in it to boost octane its not there anymore. At some point you need to add more fuel (few gas cans of premium or just more marine fuel).
I use the clear bowl on my racor separators with drain nipple on the bottom. I cut a piece of gas line the perfect length and attached to the nipple so I slide a large gatorade bottle in the bilge floor and open the drain and close when it's done. I can dump the Gatorade bottle into a larger 1 gal clear jug to monitor how much water I pulled out over multiple drainings