Stu you’ve gotten some nice CLEAN fuel.
How many do you know that have to bleed at the secondary housing? Is that typical?
I have NEVER ever bled there- the only bleeding I’ve needed to do is using the bleed knob/valve (formerly bleed hex bolt) before the injector pump. Wouldn’t that be bleeding the same thing, but just a little further downstream?
Is that a 2u Racor you’re using?
We have owned Aquavite for 21 years. We have purchased fuel all over Northern California, up the coast and in BC and the San Juan Islands. Just my dumb luck.
All I can tell you is what MY experiences have been. Other than depending on our "Bleeding 101" guru, Ken Heyman, our C34IA Treasurer who "wrote the book" on primary filter bleeding, my points here are about the secondary, which was not covered in Ken's presentations.
All I can share are my experiences, since I rarely get into that arcane subject around the cocktails.
I have shared these thoughts here before, too, and am pleased to re-contribute them.
Perhaps I wasn't patient enough the first three times I changed the secondary, but my experience is that the engine wouldn't start UNLESS I popped that screw. Theoretically, if I waited long enough for the pump to run it all the way through the system, sure, you're right.
Yes.