Racor Help

[Jeff Miller]

I can't remember the specified service interval, but if you don't have
a "water in fuel" light, and the Racor gauge (to the right of your
right knee in the carpeted engine cover) is in the green when at full-
throttle, likely nothing other than a visual inspection to ensure that
the bowl doesn't have sediment or water in the bottom of it.
Occasionally draining a cup of fuel (while engine is running if
equipped with the electric pump, without engine running if not) from
the bottom of the bowl to check for contaminants.

I change both fuel filters with every oil change, believe that the
interval is actually twice that long, but it is a convenient time to
dispose of all filters and fuel/oil. Again, changing the Racor on an
electric-pump equipped FC ('83-up?) is a fairly simple matter as you
change the filter, install the lid with the TEE-handle a turn or two
loose, start the engine, and when fuel starts coming out of the top of
the filter casing around the tee-nut you tighten the tee-nut. Self-
priming. For the non-electric-boost-pump folks it is not this easy
unfortunately, I remember it well.

- Jeff Miller
in Holland, MI


--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Scott Forman" <sforman@...>
wrote:
>
> What maintenance does the Racor on my FC require? I know what a
Racor
> does, but don't know much about the thing, and there's no manual in
my
> Blue Box. Help?
>
> Scott Forman
> 82 FC35RB
> Memphis
>