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430 Carver Diesel fuel transfer switches
- x2ryder
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430 Carver Diesel fuel transfer switches
I am new to the board. I have a 1996 430 Carver cockpit with Cummins Diamond series diesels in it. The boat has 3 fuel tanks. Port Starboard and Auxillary. In the aft closet there are 4 handles for transferring fuel. Currently they are all turn to the starboard side of the boat. The only other way to turn them is pointing up. Can anyone tell what these handles do in when turn in either direction?
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- rkrumm
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Re: 430 Carver Diesel fuel transfer switches
I have the same boat, year older. With the handles turned to the side, you are currently setup for each engine to draw and return fuel from it's respective tank (ie Port engine-port fuel tank). If you move handles to straight up it will use auxiliary tank. Make sure you always have draw and return the same for each engine. Fuel valves point at metal end, not yellow handle end. Hope that helps.
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Re: 430 Carver Diesel fuel transfer switches
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Re: 430 Carver Diesel fuel transfer switches
rkrumm wrote:Source of the post
With the handles turned to the side, you are currently setup for each engine to draw and return fuel from it's respective tank (ie Port engine-port fuel tank). If you move handles to straight up it will use auxiliary tank. Make sure you always have draw and return the same for each engine. Fuel valves point at metal end, not yellow handle end. Hope that helps.
Really? Then whomever designed that panel should be slapped into next week!!
If the metal end points to where the valve is set, then they should have added a little indicator under that nut. The LABELS then should have been put so that the indicator pointed DIRECTLY AT THE LABEL. The way it is now I could EASILY see someone lining up the yellow part of the handle with the label based on which selection they need to make.
I would also say that the supply and returns should be ganged so that they both switch, however....
With the switches setup this way, it is also possible to transfer fuel from one tank to another while underway? Let's say I have 50 gal in each tank but want to empty the AUX tank... can I put the supply for each engine on AUX and the return for port on PORT and the return for starboard on STARBOARD and effectively move all the fuel out of the AUX tank until it's empty? (well, almost empty of the engines would stall!)
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Re: 430 Carver Diesel fuel transfer switches
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Re: 430 Carver Diesel fuel transfer switches
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Re: 430 Carver Diesel fuel transfer switches
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Re: 430 Carver Diesel fuel transfer switches
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Re: 430 Carver Diesel fuel transfer switches
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