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freddmc
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Sep 04, 2016

Water in Fuel

A friend recently had a situation where water in fuel destroyed his injector pump in his 2008 Ford F350. He said there was no warning that he had water in the fuel.
How can one check to make sure this warning system actually works? I have a 2005 Ram cummins.

Thanks
  • Never had a issue over 25 yrs now. Have a 92 and 01 Cummins. Change filter ever yr and put Stayadine with ever fill up.
  • Here's a video of the issue with the factory filtration. I know our 05 Dodge cummins had all 6 injectors replaced by 120k miles.

    Link
  • FishOnOne wrote:
    Here's a video of the issue with the factory filtration. I know our 05 Dodge cummins had all 6 injectors replaced by 120k miles.

    Link


    Fish follow along. The op was worried about his pump; not injectors, not head gaskets, not bed plate leaks, not glow plugs falling off into the combustion chamber or any thing else for that matter.

    He has a very good cp3 pump, not a junk Siemens or even a cp4 pump. He needs to check his water drain once in a while and call it good.
  • Turtle n Peeps wrote:
    FishOnOne wrote:
    Here's a video of the issue with the factory filtration. I know our 05 Dodge cummins had all 6 injectors replaced by 120k miles.

    Link


    Fish follow along. The op was worried about his pump; not injectors, not head gaskets, not bed plate leaks, not glow plugs falling off into the combustion chamber or any thing else for that matter.

    He has a very good cp3 pump, not a junk Siemens or even a cp4 pump. He needs to check his water drain once in a while and call it good.


    Typical. He tries (although in vain mostly) to dig up some dirt to try and save his beloved blue oval brand again from obvious flaws and failures when there brought up on here. I'm unaware though what either of his two posts have to do with the OP's question. Correct me if I'm wrong though, but, doesn't water in the fuel system cause injector issues on any diesel engine??? Just with the Cummins it doesn't destroy the entire system like some other manufacturers. Carry on.
  • Turtle n Peeps wrote:
    FishOnOne wrote:
    Here's a video of the issue with the factory filtration. I know our 05 Dodge cummins had all 6 injectors replaced by 120k miles.

    Link


    Fish follow along. The op was worried about his pump; not injectors, not head gaskets, not bed plate leaks, not glow plugs falling off into the combustion chamber or any thing else for that matter.

    He has a very good cp3 pump, not a junk Siemens or even a cp4 pump. He needs to check his water drain once in a while and call it good.


    He needs to use OEM fuel filters... water in the fuel system will indeed ensure it lives a short life.

    In addition a stuck injector can melt a piston in a matter of minutes.
  • FishOnOne wrote:
    Here's a video of the issue with the factory filtration. I know our 05 Dodge cummins had all 6 injectors replaced by 120k miles.

    Link
    Sorry about your luck. I have a n.04.5 truck with 196K and counting and like a lot of people I have bought fuel in a thousand different places over the years. No fuel problems to date. JME.
  • john&bet wrote:
    FishOnOne wrote:
    Here's a video of the issue with the factory filtration. I know our 05 Dodge cummins had all 6 injectors replaced by 120k miles.

    Link
    Sorry about your luck. I have a n.04.5 truck with 196K and counting and like a lot of people I have bought fuel in a thousand different places over the years. No fuel problems to date. JME.


    No big deal... We tried our hand on a used truck that already had 3 injectors replaced before we purchased it.