Hello everyone
This article will help Legend owners I am sure but, other boat/yacht owners as well. I purchased in July 2013 a 1995 Hunter Passage 42, she is a fantastic yacht and now called Casper. However, I have had continual fuel problems with the engine faltering and stopping after just an hour or so of use or, if there is a bit of a bumpy sea. I have changed the fuel filter 5-6 times in the past year and keep bleeding the water trap but the problem continued. While in Holland this summer I lifted the aft cabin bed and took the top off the fuel tank, I reached in and pulled up and out the fuel hose. The original rubber hose was flaking off around the outside to that of a gritty rubber substance. I split the pipe with a razor and found the inside strengthened with an spring running the length of the hose. The rubber inside the pipe was badly perished as well. I removed the entire pipe and took it outside where I went blue in the face trying to blow through it. When it cleared it had been blocked with rubber flakes/grit rubber crud. I have replaced the pipe and BINGO! I need never have changed all the filters I did. Consider the problem I had if you have the same symptoms with your engine.
Regards to you all from Scotland.
This article will help Legend owners I am sure but, other boat/yacht owners as well. I purchased in July 2013 a 1995 Hunter Passage 42, she is a fantastic yacht and now called Casper. However, I have had continual fuel problems with the engine faltering and stopping after just an hour or so of use or, if there is a bit of a bumpy sea. I have changed the fuel filter 5-6 times in the past year and keep bleeding the water trap but the problem continued. While in Holland this summer I lifted the aft cabin bed and took the top off the fuel tank, I reached in and pulled up and out the fuel hose. The original rubber hose was flaking off around the outside to that of a gritty rubber substance. I split the pipe with a razor and found the inside strengthened with an spring running the length of the hose. The rubber inside the pipe was badly perished as well. I removed the entire pipe and took it outside where I went blue in the face trying to blow through it. When it cleared it had been blocked with rubber flakes/grit rubber crud. I have replaced the pipe and BINGO! I need never have changed all the filters I did. Consider the problem I had if you have the same symptoms with your engine.
Regards to you all from Scotland.
