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Just got back from picking up an RTV injection pump from my rebuilder. When I dropped it off yesterday I told him I suspected that it was water damaged. He called a couple hours later and told me I was right, and it had pretty much destroyed every moving part in the thing. I hate it when I'm right.

New barrels, plungers, delivery valves, rubber parts and labor-- $550.
Add that to the three rebuilt injectors last week, and the water bill totals up to about $780. All because I went on vacation and none of my co-workers bothered to check the water separator when it started to crap out. The filter handled all that it could before it gave up the fight and sent the water on through. People kept driving it until the #1 cylinder decided it had enough and stopped firing. Then they parked it and waited for me to come back and fix it. And then everybody starts whining because we only have one more RTV and they have to either share or walk until I fix the other one. :fight:
 
That sucks. :eek:
There is a funnel that will take the water and crap out of the fuel. Super funnel or something like that. I'll dig up the name of it tomorrow and post it for ya unless another member beats me to it.
 
I hate to read posts like this.

Last week I spent the better part of a day slowly draining water from the tank of my L4740. I must have got about 2 pints of water along with 2 gallons of fuel out of it's 14 gallon tank. It's a long story about how it got in there and I had waterblock filters on the bulk tanks but it still got through. I think that I got it done with no harm done except to my pocket for new filters on the bulk tanks and the Kubota. I'll keep watching it as I don't want anything bad to happen to my baby. That would kill me as it was my stupidity in the first place that got the water in there.
 
about every 3rd tank I add conditioner. As for the Mr Funnel I am not totally sold on them really getting any water out of the fuel or I am getting fuel with no water in it.
 
thcri said:
about every 3rd tank I add conditioner.
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Can I ask what conditioner you use?

I add diesel STABIL and Power Service to the fuel when I bring it home but I'll have to do more until I'm sure I have all the water out of the system.
 
EastTexFrank said:
Can I ask what conditioner you use?

I add diesel STABIL and Power Service to the fuel when I bring it home but I'll have to do more until I'm sure I have all the water out of the system.
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I use this stuff here. I have no reason why I use this other than it is what the local guy stocks. I have no problems with it.

Power Service
 
We're using the Kubota separators, but they don't have much capacity. They do work OK, but any more than a couple ounces of water and they're toast. Plus they're all plastic, which is also OK if you're careful with them.
We have half a dozen people driving our RTV's 24/7, but only a couple of us have any concept of what water separators, glow plugs, hydrostatic trannys and differential locks are for. So for that reason I'm gonna try out a Racor separator with a dash-mount water alarm and see how that goes.
Idiot-proofing equipment makes things complicated, but sometimes I like the challenge. :confused2:
 
The Racor will work but because it will not be able to be mounted low on the frame where the Kubota one mounts, you will probably need a pump or something to prime the filter after changing or draining water as the RTV is using a mechanical fuel pump and not electric like the BXs have. The nice thing with the Kubota is there is a plunger in the filter bowl that shuts the fuel flow off when removed and starts it when replaced and also has a third hose going to the tank vent for self bleeding of the air from the filter. Once you know how to use the Kubota water seperator, it is a quick process to drain and dump the filter of water.

David
 
The bigger Racor units have a primer pump, but the little 15gph one I'm putting in doesn't. The Kubota ones I have mounted up high a little above the frame on the back of the cab so they can be seen more easily. Not that anyone other than me actually checks them. :mad: They always prime and start pretty quickly after a change. If the Racors cause a problem, I'll just step up to the bigger one with the pump.
Luckily I don't have to foot the bill for my little experiments. :whistling:
 
Do you have any trouble getting Mr. Funnel to bend to the angle necessary for getting fuel into the RTV900 fuel tank? I wish Kubota had put the tank filler atop a flat surface to make it easier to pour fuel from a container or through a filtering system.
 
Heatwave, I find that pouring most anything into a funnel, especially a MR. Funnel requires me to rig a piece of wire around the funnel and then to the seat to hold it upright. Works pretty good especially when it takes 3 hands to get one of the new fangled Obama safety gas cans to pour more than a quart per minute..........Dennis
 
D&D Farm said:
Works pretty good especially when it takes 3 hands to get one of the new fangled Obama safety gas cans to pour more than a quart per minute..........Dennis
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I think them cans were around before Obama was POTUS. Either way them cans are a piece of crap. I drilled a hole and used one of the replacement vent kits from another manufacture. Works pretty good.
 
I have been using a Mr Funnel for diesel fuel and it appears to be working quite well. Any extra precaution to keep fuel clean and free of water is well worth it.

I have heard that some folks have even drilled a hole and installed a tire valve stem,without the inner workings, to use as a vent in those new three-handed gas cans.

Keifer, A RTV wannabe
 
Keifer said:
I have heard that some folks have even drilled a hole and installed a tire valve stem,without the inner workings, to use as a vent in those new three-handed gas cans.
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Now that's a good idea. I may have to steal that one. I'm not proud. :yum:
 
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