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mydmax2:
Sorry ginting, but water destroys the fuel injection systems in a common rail diesel engine.

Both visible and microscopic, ie dissolved water within the fuel, should be eliminated so the injection system will have along life. The diesel engine itself may not worry too much for very small amounts, a drop of water, but if hydraulic lock up happens then the engine too is history.

Filtering which catches any visible water AND filters which collect dissolved water held within the fuel are best to have on a CRD engine. 

wintrmute:

--- Quote from: mydmax2 on Dec 27, 2016, 10:52:25 AM ---The diesel engine itself may not worry too much for very small amounts, a drop of water, but if hydraulic lock up happens then the engine too is history.

--- End quote ---

Years ago I used to play around with engines a lot more, and at one point I fitted a water injection system (to a supercharged engine) for cooling. The amount of water that could be injected into the engine (safely) was far more than you'd expect!

Agreed, though, that it probably doesn't do the injectors much good..but water is a smaller molecule than diesel.

mydmax2:
The dynamic flow of a water injector system isn't what we are concerned with and the water in that case isn't being fed in through a diesel injector.
 It is the water in fuel which the poster said wasn't much problem for a diesel. Perhaps that isn't the correct.

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