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Watching some engine maintenance/troubleshooting Youtube videos I’ve become jealous of a couple of things.
One – man, some folks have big engine rooms – they can easily get to both sides of their engines. I have to lay/crawl between the fuel tank and the engine to get to the outboard side of the engine (can’t be done with a hot engine).
Two – Saw an engine room that had a fuel system management manifold. The manifold had valves to allow lining up tank suction, as well as engine supply and return. Basically allowing each engine to have two sources of supply and return. I would assume for the genny also.
Three – Saw an engine room that had ‘remote’ oil filters mounted on the engine room’s forward bulkhead. So very easy to change the filters. On either side of the filters were ports to support their hard mounted oil change system. Suck from the port upstream of the filter, then fill into the port downstream of the filter.
As an old fat man getting outboard to change a fuel or oil filter isn’t the easiest thing in the world, so I would love these ‘remote’ setups. I could even envision ‘bypassing/blanking’ the onengine fuel filter and simply place it down stream of the Racor and manifold in the engine’s supply line (not sure how that would work pressure/flow wise).
So my question is this … aside from the inherent risks in having more valves and longer runs of hoses for fuel and oil … would it be a good investment to install remote system like these?
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