Dan Morehouse
Member III
We replaced fuel filters for the first time on my recently purchased E-38 a couple weeks ago. The engine mounted filter housing has a bleed valve on the top which requires climbing into the starboard lazarette to access...after unloading everything IN the lazarette and lifting out the big slide panel between the lazarette & the engine compartment. While bleeding the line, it requires heroic effort to reduce (not eliminate) the amount of fuel dribbling down the housing, coating everything in its path on its way to fouling the most inaccessible part of the bilge. The spectre of doing this someday under duress in a seaway in foul weather is appalling. Question: why couldn't a line be fabricated to run from the port for the bleed valve to a location near the front of the engine with a small petcock on the discharge end? It seems this would enable one to bleed the system quickly and easily without opening the lazarette, soiling the bilge, or contorting oneself while rain runs down the back of one's pants. What am I missing?
Dan Morehouse
E-38 "Next Exit"
Dan Morehouse
E-38 "Next Exit"