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| Subject: | Purolator Fuel Filter Warning |
--> Stratus-List message posted by: Larry McFarland <larrymc@qconline.com>
Hi guys,
Very recently, I referred to a search for a Purolator "See Through" Fuel
Filter in a posting.
This filter was eventually located and found to be a *Purolator Pro-Fuel
Filter*. In the Google perusal
of articles on this filter, I found that *there is a recall of this
filter series* because the
polylmer used for the housing in the suspect fuel filters may not be
compatible with ethanol
and other chemicals sometimes found in fuel systems. If the housing
leaks, you could have
a fire. In another listed instance, an aircraft builder's filter leaked
and it was on negative pressure, sucked air
and his engine quit on takeoff due to fuel starvation. Subsequent
replacement of this item was found to
be difficult as the replacement product was re-marked as Made in USA and
it was obviously made in Taiwan.
The latter didn't even exhibit the necessary quality found on the failed
original filter made in the US.
So much for the Purolator Company and their filters. I didn't want to
have misled anyone into using this
filter on their plane just because the basic concept embodied what I'd
like to have found in one..........
Pleased to have found this, but immensely disappointed that the trend of
once good products are
disappearing and being re-mfg as similiar, but inferior items from
offshore that could get you killed.
Please be aware and *do not use the Purolator Part Numbers 804, 805, 806
and NAPA
624804, 624805 and 624806 part numbers*.
Now I've got to find something else with a see-thru stainless filter
that works. Arrrgh!
Larry McFarland - 601HDS - Stratus
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