Fuel Filters

[Bob_Roller]

The reason I havn't responded to my post, is that I lost inter-net access last Thursday evening, and Cox Communications is telling me it may be up to 4 weeks before I get it back, also don't have telephone service or cable television service. Looks like a construction job went terribly bad, I lost electrical power at the same time for 22 hours. One good thing, the refrigerator and freezer got cleaned out like it never has before. I'm at work, and I finally was able to log in today on this site, but Boxerworks comes up as restricted site category : Tasteless ! I have to admit I too have grown weary of the antics on Boxerworks, and I think that unless I have no other choice, fuel filters was my last post there.

[Ed Miller]

The Airlist is the place for nearly pure tech stuff.  

[Justin B.]

Bob, hope you get your internet issues straightened out and maybe you can lobby for a few months of free service for your troubles.  I know I have done that with other ISPs.

I don't think any of the lists are very "tolerant", I also subscribe to the list put out by ibmwr.org and a lot of personality conflicts, sniping, and nit-picking...  The older I get the less tolerant of this type of crap I become - well, less tolerant in general.  That is one of the main reasons I quit the computer service/support biz after over 25 years and decided to totally switch career paths.    Although being a machinist is a lot more physically demanding I only have myself to blame if I make a boo-boo and I don't have to answer whiny-ass questions from bone-heads.

[Bob_Roller]

Justin, I've been an aircraft mechanic on commercial type aircraft for about 31 years, so I know a bit about turning a wrench, and even with minimal maintenance manual help, I've done a decent job of maintaining my R65 for the last 26 years, and 80,000 miles. But it's nice to have access to 'real world' problems that defy anything described in the available manuals on the R65, but like you said the 'antics ' have become intolerable to me. It seems that since I turned 50 last August, my bull**** tolerance has evaporated like ice on Phoenix Fourth of July  afternoon !

[Semper Gumby]

Every bike I have has inline fuel filters.  I have not had a fuel stavation problem due to a filter yet.  Usually it is because I decided to stretch the reserve too far.  

TTFN,

[Bob_Roller]

Bill, this is the first fuel filter that I have installed on a bike, I thought that the petcock stand pipe on my R65 had a metal screen, but I am wrong, at least on my bike. Every time I removed the carb float bowls, I always found a fair amount of fine grit and a couple of globs of water as well. I've had this filter on the bike for about three years, and I found no grit or water this time, and it has been three years since the float bowls were last removed and cleaned. So I guess that the filter did it's job. I did a search of the Visu-filter web-site,and they have a high flow filter, with about 15 times the filter surface area of the sintered element filter that I have now. Cost is about $3, only down side is you have to order them, and shipping costs about as much as the filter itself.

[Justin B.]

Start up a "group purchase", maybe even get  price break on quantity and everybody shares in the shipping...

[donbmw]

Bob

I have used the small plastic inline filters on my bikes since around 1984 and have not felt I had a fuel problem with them. The only time I have had a fuel flow problem was when I put stabil in the tank and the coating came loose and block the petcock. Your post a couple back could have been me posting. I have been and A&P since 1977, starter in school  for this in 1975. Have stayed in General Aviation working on small singles to Beech King Air's and contract work the Major airlines that come to Monroe. Still have my first BMW 1982 R65 plus a 75 R90/6 with a RS fairing installed and a 1980 R65. I would have been nice if this Forum was avaible back then. I was lucky that I had a good friend that had a small motorcyle shop started a BMW dealership in 1984 - 1989. When he sold out and the new owners drop the BMW line I was able to get the shop tools.

Don

[Justin B.]

Don, that's really cool to be able to "fall into" a cache of Airhead tools!