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Where's the crud coming from? Did you look in the fuel tank before you left?
If the tank had varnish from bad gas, this will be an ongoing issue. The new diesel fuel is a great solvent and melts the varnish off the inner tank and the crap will plug filters.
If the tank was clean, then the crap was introduced when buying fuel. I try to buy fuel at stations with high turnover of fuel, so it will be fresh and minimum chance of water in it. Plus don't buy fuel if the tanker is delivering fuel, as this stirs up any water and crap in the storage tank.
With the stock tank, you can drain most water and crud out the drain hole if you let it sit over night. Take a big sample in white bucket and see what you find.
With you heading to MX, I suggest buying a Baja Funnel to pre-filter your fuel. Fairly cheap and work well to keep the junk out.
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Safe travels
The tank was clean inside when I left, I made sure to take a peak. I put 11,000km on the swap before leaving as well, I believe the crud came from a shady fill up in a nowhere town. I made the mistake of trusting the place after seeing several trucks filling up there, it was shortly before getting to Moab, so it does make logical sense.
I have the newer style Manafree 38 gallon tank, it has a good drain point if I ever need to drain it. I have put another 800km on it since I replaced the filter and have not had any issues, the clear bowl on the Racor filter has nothing in it either. THank you for the suggestions though, Jeremy put me onto the Baja funnel, I just did not suspect that I would need it until Mexico....
He has a 55 gallon tank not the stock one. agreed on the varnish, I had all sort's of stuff come loose when I swapped
to diesel.
I suggested before he left and belive he got a Baja filter funnel already.
Mike I would get 5 of the Racor fuel water filters as this is your first filter and likely to clog much more than the main engine filter is as it's getting fuel right out of the tank and is your first line of defence.
Did you ever get some of the small in line diesel filters I suggested? Napa sells them and they are likely much cheaper and easier to change plus they are see through. they only filter at 130mu but it's a good indictator of what is getting to the other filter's.
I will be getting at least 5 Racor filters, I suspect getting them in Mexico and even further south will be difficult at best. The nice part is I have already had to order a valve cover gasket in a nowhere town, and parts for the motor were only 1 day out from the local mechanic.
I looked at the small in line filters, but I stuck with the Racor and the Isuzu main filter. THe price i got for the inline filter was $15, and the Racor was $28 and I figure the Racor will easily out last 2 of the in line filters, and I have the isuzu filter to catch anything that gets by the Racor. Now that I have gotten the stock Racor filter off changing the filters will be easy + the racor has the clear bowl for inspection and draining.
After putting a turbo on my n/a 2L it starved itself of diesel. The injection pump couldn't keep up so I just added a 12v inline fuel pump with a relay that triggers on with the ignition.
Probably not your problem but these pumps are a dime a dozen at any parts store. Plus I never have to prime my system. Does it automatically.
I looked at the 12v feed pumps but opted because its working great the way it is so i would just be adding another possible failure point with no real gain. PLus I have read of issues with over pressuring the feed for the IP pump or the 12v pumps being a restriction due to inaccurate flow ratings.
With clean filters I have no issues getting all the fuel I need!
I got the bosch primer pump. It works great and I have never had any issue priming after 20 or so pumps.