Isabelle suffered an engine failure due to a blocked fuel line at an awkward moment -- during a gale in Episode 12. Safely home in France, I build a home-mad...

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hello in episode 12 I showed you that

was a just as I was arriving in these s

ORS I had the engine went out on me and

it was because of a clogged fuel line

with this bacteria or so maybe wasn't

bacteria may have been just dirt that

was in the in the fuel tank together all

shook up during the storm so in order to

get home from the source this is my fuel

tank it's a plastic tank there is no

drain on it that it's an in fact there's

no event not even any access so what

I've done is that taken out the few

that's the fuel cinder there and I'll

show you what I've built here so to get

home from the Azores what I did as I

just kept the fuel tank filled all the

time so that that minimized the amount

of shaking up of sediment or bacteria

that was in the bottom so that's I kept

the tank filled all time I got home and

when I got home I put in I bought some

of there's lots of different brands and

I don't know which one is better than

another but I bought a bacteria of

killing chemical called it was acteal

500 or 550 is what I bought and I put

that in this treatment in and that's

supposed to not only kill the bacteria

but it was it's they claim that it's

supposed to dissolve it as well so that

then it burns out through the fuel but I

really wanted to clean my fuel tank but

I couldn't find a service in in in

France or in at least in the area that I

live in La Rochelle

where they do what's called fuel

polishing I couldn't find one so I

decided to build one myself you know

I'll just show you what that looks like

and there's no no great intellectual

activity here

I actually actually copied exactly one

or very very closely the one I copied

one that I saw on the Internet

and this is what it this is what it

looks like well let me start it started

again when I should first show this to

my wife she said oh it looks like an

Italian expresso maker that's pretty

cool I hope something good comes I have

a copper pipe that I just I can move

around and they stick it down into the

bottom of it you'll take it I'm going to

move it all around to try to suck up as

much dirt as I as I possibly can and

then that pipe in order to get the

system going I actually had a primer

pump that I put in and that actually

worked very well I didn't have to I

didn't turn the engine on and I didn't

put fuel into the record filter either

and then I just have a strainer here to

catch the really heavy stuff then it

goes into into a lake or filter this is

the rake or 500 FG filter filter they're

quite expensive by the way so it both it

has a filter and to start with I'm using

a 30 micron filter and I'll run it for a

couple of hours of that and then after

that I'll put in a 10 micron filter and

run it with that and then it has a

centrifugal system in here that's

supposed to separate any water that

comes out there then it goes through a

pump I originally ordered a pot just a

Volkswagen diesel pump but they sent me

the wrong one so I just went down to the

chandlery and paid 50% more and bought

that one instead and so this pump here

has a capacity of 250 liters per hour

the filter has a capacity of 200 maximum

capacity is a of 227 liter so I was a

little concerned but I figure there's

enough inefficiency in the line and all

that that hopefully I won't won't

overpower the filter by doing this and

then this just sets up to my 12 volt 12

volt battery and that's what I'm that's

what I'm running with so let me show you

how it works

clue here

and I'm just gonna move the mic around

the bottom even suck up as much as I can

and just let it sit there and you can

see that the throughput here you see

that's going to be pretty good speed

the my tanks capacity is 210 liters so

210 liters and I got a pumps that are

working at over 200 liters so

theoretically in an hour to be what they

call polished so I'll run it for a

couple of hours and then put in change

the filter to attend in micron

filter let it run for a couple hours now

and at the end of all that I'll film for

you the only water show up get any

contamination show up and in the

strainer or in the filter I'll show it

to y'all filming we'll see how this all

turns out so to be

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so now I've stopped it I've been running

for two and a half hours I've stopped it

and I'm going to put a ten like micron

filter and I've been running on a 30

micron filter so the ten goes in a

second it's not too dirty yeah but you

can you can see there is some some

degree of dirt that went in there and

then the pre-filter strainer then I'm

going to change that as well you can see

there's a level of gunk in dirt and

stuff in there as well

but I have to say it's less than I

thought no I was expecting

I was expecting something quite evil

looking and that's actually pretty good

and the bowl you can see there is no

water in there it's just just diesel so

that's good news and I've moved the

pickup rod all over the bottom as far as

I can and certainly into the lowest

spots so that's going weld as well so

now I'll run it for another a couple of

hours with a 10 micron filter and then

that will be it for this season that's

my own homemade shield polishing for the

season well I have just turned off the

pump it has been running now for just

short of five hours and I put the tank

through a 30 micron filter several times

and now through a 10 micron filter and

the thing that's surprises me when I

look at this is that there's no water

here and I know the probe is going down

to the bottom of the deepest part of the

fuel tank so

I don't know how to explain that I was

expecting some water not to see any is

that a realistic outcome I don't know

maybe some of you viewers have have done

this before and I'm just astonished

there that this is clean there's no

water in there for sums so the tank has

been cycled through there at least five

times my Sankhya in my the fuel that all

the fields in my tank has gone through a

filter now so it's polished and a quick

look at the that's the ten micron filter

after two hours you can see the little

dirt down in the bottom that came out as

well so yeah there was a flood in the

fuel tank not that very much though

frankly I'm surprised it's not worse

much worse than that actually so so it's

done I guess I should have more

confidence now that I'm not going to

have another problem with contaminated

or black fuel lines at least for a while

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