george morrison
11-27-2002, 16:35
One of the fellows over at http://forums.thedieselstop.com/ubbthreads/postlist.php?Cat=&Board=UBB33
has completed fuel testing on his Ford Powerstroke. The "before" fuel was among the dirtiest at 21/18/14 (40,264,830 particles per gallon >2 microns, 6,434,500 particles per gallon >5 microns and 510,975 per gallon particles greater than 15 microns). Water at 65 ppm.
AFTER a new fuel filter, it is the *first* vehicle to make (>5 microns) or come close to target.
Results were 16/13/10 (target 15/13/10) or
1,862,220 particles/gallon >2 microns, 146,025/gallon particles >5 microns, and 18,925 particles/gallon >15 microns. Water content was essentially unchanged at 62 ppm. This filter is yielding over 96% removal of the greater than 5 micron particle component; the one most affecting fuel system life. This is one excellent filter!
Additionally, he tested a fuel filter with 16,000 miles operation and filtration performance was not as good as the new filter, reflecting the degradation in cellulose media that takes place as it absorbs water, weakens and micro-channels. The 16,000 mile fuel filter tested at 18/15/10, allowing over 5 times the particles to pass through the fuel system.
The numbers were 9,292,175 >2um, 1,048,445 >5um, and 34,065 >15um. Even one ISO number increase reflects a doubling of the throughput dirt.
Moreover, it looks like International learned its clean fuel lesson with early Heui failures and has installed a very efficient OEM fuel filtration system in place with the Powerstroke installation..
This is the first OEM fuel filter I have seen rendering this level of filtering capabilities.
George Morrison, STLE CLS
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has completed fuel testing on his Ford Powerstroke. The "before" fuel was among the dirtiest at 21/18/14 (40,264,830 particles per gallon >2 microns, 6,434,500 particles per gallon >5 microns and 510,975 per gallon particles greater than 15 microns). Water at 65 ppm.
AFTER a new fuel filter, it is the *first* vehicle to make (>5 microns) or come close to target.
Results were 16/13/10 (target 15/13/10) or
1,862,220 particles/gallon >2 microns, 146,025/gallon particles >5 microns, and 18,925 particles/gallon >15 microns. Water content was essentially unchanged at 62 ppm. This filter is yielding over 96% removal of the greater than 5 micron particle component; the one most affecting fuel system life. This is one excellent filter!
Additionally, he tested a fuel filter with 16,000 miles operation and filtration performance was not as good as the new filter, reflecting the degradation in cellulose media that takes place as it absorbs water, weakens and micro-channels. The 16,000 mile fuel filter tested at 18/15/10, allowing over 5 times the particles to pass through the fuel system.
The numbers were 9,292,175 >2um, 1,048,445 >5um, and 34,065 >15um. Even one ISO number increase reflects a doubling of the throughput dirt.
Moreover, it looks like International learned its clean fuel lesson with early Heui failures and has installed a very efficient OEM fuel filtration system in place with the Powerstroke installation..
This is the first OEM fuel filter I have seen rendering this level of filtering capabilities.
George Morrison, STLE CLS
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