I'm not a salesman or spokesperson for this product, just from my own personal experience if anyone is wondering about the Mr. Funnel.
Water in car's fuel tank is bad enough but seems like if it's in a gravity feed fuel system like a lawnmower, tractor or my Trabant, it's worse. At least if the car has a fuel pump it will agitate it.
Back in the spring I got my riding mower out and after a few laps it started to sputter. Thinking it was either the gas or the filter, I siphoned the gas out and was going to let was was left in the tank just hit the pavement. I disconnected the hose after the filter, but instead of a solid stream , it was a drip. HMMM, that's odd. So I knew the problem was the filter.
I replaced the filter and replaced the fuel with gas from my gas can and isolated the gas from the mower's tank into another can and placed a piece of duct tape on the can with a "?" in case it was not the gas.
I mowed for 3 hours and parked it in my yard barn. 2 weeks later, same thing happened. Even though I run 100% gas in my mowers, water will still condensate in 100% gas and sink to the bottom just like E10 will if not topped off over the winter. I normally do this after I mow but for some reason did not do this last fall before putting the mower up for the season.
I came to the conclusion that water was settling to the bottom of the tank and saturating the filter element and not allowing gas to pass through it.
This is what the second filter looked like, does it look clogged to you guys?:
After it dried out, I was able to blow through it.
After the second incident, I poured the current gas from my mower's tank, what was leftover from last season and the questionable gas the first go around through one of those Mr. Funnels. I bought this to filter out any trash before it get's to the filter. But the Teflon mesh filter is also supposed to filter water out of gasoline. Really? How's it supposed to do that? Since then, I have not had any issues with this same gas.
I was watching one of those Alaska shows and one guy was using one while refilling his snowmobile. Apparently water is bad about freezing in fuel lines in Alaska. It get's cold here in Tennessee but I've never had a gas line to freeze on me on anything in my life.
So I did an experiment.
I poured some fresh 100% gas into a glass jar then marked the level with a marker. Then added about the same amount of water on top of that.
Then poured the gas/water through one of those Mr. Funnels. I was amazed! Water will not pass through the filter. However it only seems to catch about 95 to 99% of the water. The strained gas was a bit cloudy. I suspect from where some water was still suspended.
After the strained gas sat for about a day, it formed a layer. There was a trace amount in the bottom of the jar. I poured that back through the filter and it removed more water.
I took the jar of gas and shook it up. I noticed that although water and gas is not supposed to mix and will decant, if there is a small trace amount of water in gasoline, it will suspend somewhat and take several hours before they will separate. I don't know what the saturation point of water in gasoline actually is. I just know if it's cloudy, it's saturated with water.
So, does the Mr. Funnel actually work? Yes! It seemed to solve my issue with my lawnmower.
But in my experiment using a 50/50 mix, it only seemed to remove 95 to 99% of the water. Maybe because the gasoline was "saturated" or I did not wipe out the jars between tests so there was trace amounts of water left after poring.
Any of you guys want to add to this or share any of your own experiments like this?
Water in car's fuel tank is bad enough but seems like if it's in a gravity feed fuel system like a lawnmower, tractor or my Trabant, it's worse. At least if the car has a fuel pump it will agitate it.
Back in the spring I got my riding mower out and after a few laps it started to sputter. Thinking it was either the gas or the filter, I siphoned the gas out and was going to let was was left in the tank just hit the pavement. I disconnected the hose after the filter, but instead of a solid stream , it was a drip. HMMM, that's odd. So I knew the problem was the filter.
I replaced the filter and replaced the fuel with gas from my gas can and isolated the gas from the mower's tank into another can and placed a piece of duct tape on the can with a "?" in case it was not the gas.
I mowed for 3 hours and parked it in my yard barn. 2 weeks later, same thing happened. Even though I run 100% gas in my mowers, water will still condensate in 100% gas and sink to the bottom just like E10 will if not topped off over the winter. I normally do this after I mow but for some reason did not do this last fall before putting the mower up for the season.
I came to the conclusion that water was settling to the bottom of the tank and saturating the filter element and not allowing gas to pass through it.
This is what the second filter looked like, does it look clogged to you guys?:
After it dried out, I was able to blow through it.
After the second incident, I poured the current gas from my mower's tank, what was leftover from last season and the questionable gas the first go around through one of those Mr. Funnels. I bought this to filter out any trash before it get's to the filter. But the Teflon mesh filter is also supposed to filter water out of gasoline. Really? How's it supposed to do that? Since then, I have not had any issues with this same gas.
I was watching one of those Alaska shows and one guy was using one while refilling his snowmobile. Apparently water is bad about freezing in fuel lines in Alaska. It get's cold here in Tennessee but I've never had a gas line to freeze on me on anything in my life.
So I did an experiment.
I poured some fresh 100% gas into a glass jar then marked the level with a marker. Then added about the same amount of water on top of that.
Then poured the gas/water through one of those Mr. Funnels. I was amazed! Water will not pass through the filter. However it only seems to catch about 95 to 99% of the water. The strained gas was a bit cloudy. I suspect from where some water was still suspended.
After the strained gas sat for about a day, it formed a layer. There was a trace amount in the bottom of the jar. I poured that back through the filter and it removed more water.
I took the jar of gas and shook it up. I noticed that although water and gas is not supposed to mix and will decant, if there is a small trace amount of water in gasoline, it will suspend somewhat and take several hours before they will separate. I don't know what the saturation point of water in gasoline actually is. I just know if it's cloudy, it's saturated with water.
So, does the Mr. Funnel actually work? Yes! It seemed to solve my issue with my lawnmower.
But in my experiment using a 50/50 mix, it only seemed to remove 95 to 99% of the water. Maybe because the gasoline was "saturated" or I did not wipe out the jars between tests so there was trace amounts of water left after poring.
Any of you guys want to add to this or share any of your own experiments like this?
