WIF light?

[steved]

OK, got a little poll here... answer honestly.



Have you ever seen your water in fuel light illuminate? (yes, no, had water but no light)



How many miles are on the truck? (keep it simple: less than 50k, more than 50k, more than 100k, etc... )



How often do you fuel at a different place (answers: always same place, almost always same place, almost never the same place, always some place different).



Anyone notice more water since the change to ULSD?



Comments?



steved

 

[steved]

OK, I'll start...

Never seen the WIF light illuminate...

I have over 600k combined miles on three trucks...

One truck was almost always the same place, the other two were almost never the same place...

I've definately noticed more water since the change to ULSD from LSD...

steved

 

[CSkal]

I have never seen the WIF light, never had a problem with water in my fuel (that I know of) and I always buy my fuel from the same place, everytime. I don't even see it at bulb check.

I'll have to check and see if the WIF gets illuminated when you do the instrument cluster test (hld trip, turn key on).

 

[DCreed]

I removed my stock filter housing and the plug for the WIF was hanging low. well it got wet from splash and lit. I sealed it up ,no light since. that was @ 150K ,now 180k.

 

[Scrappy]

no light in 59K, almost always buy fuel from the same place.

injectors got fluxed 5K ago and they did not say anything about water damage.

have had a aux tank with a coalescing filter on it for 12K and have drained water from the aux filter occasionally.

 

[JFaughn]

Only when I pressure wash the eng , this yr it went on in heavy snow fall .
267,000 .
Fuel up at about 3-5 places .

 

[wyosteve]

This is my 6th Dodge/Cummins. 1st, 2nd and 3d gens. Only once on my '95 did the WIF light come on. Must have got a bad load of fuel b/c it happened twice in 50 miles.

 

[JMetzger]

Have had two Dodge's, 1st & 2nd Gen and have never had the WIF light come on except on bulb check.

 

[2Rowdy]

Fuel up all over. Had 1 duramax(2002) 100,000 miles no light. 2004 ctd 120,000 miles no light. 2007. 5 26000 miles no light

 

[KKohagen]

105K on my truck. I fill up in 2-3 different stations. I have only seen the WIF light on the bulb check after starting. I have not even seen water when draining the housing for a fuel filter change.

 

[steved]

I just got done draining my home-built water knock-out on my auxiliary tank... some interesting findings (keep in mind the knockout hasn't been serviced since its install nearly a year ago, which is nearly 40k ago):



First, there was nearly 0. 5 gallon (yes, gallon) of water in the knock-out... just shy of reaching my home-built WIF sensor, so it never illuminated. I can still see beads of water rolling around on the bottom of the aux tank... I'm pretty careful about not getting stuff in there when fueling (and it is fully enclosed in my toolbox when the lid is shut).



Second, there were metal shavings in the knockout? Keep in mind, this thing is upstream of the pump and the tank is plastic. I also found what I think might have been a really small ball bearing (1/16" diameter) rolling around in the pan. I can only attribute this to garbage acquired from the different stations I have used... and this was not a small amount, probably enough to fill a pop bottle lid. The shavings were mixed in with a bunch of dirt... again, not an insignificant amount of dirt either.



The filter is downstream of my pump, so hopefully the really nasty stuff has been dropping out in the water knock-out and not getting run through my pump. The filter (a 10-ish micron Donaldson P550587) did not have any water in it.



I am continually amazed at how much water I see in this setup and the FASS, yet I never once saw water in the fuel bowl during a filter change in the OE setup (let alone the WIF light illuminate).



Makes you wonder how I can see all this water, yet no one else does...



steved

 

[amsoilman]

MY old second gen had water in the fuel only 5 miles away after filling up at a "Flying J" in Wyoming. Took 3 changes of filters and then a complete drain of the fuel tank to get it out! "Flying J" bought me a tank of fuel and also 2 dinners for the inconvenience.



Wayne

 

[jwgary]

185,000 miles and never have seen the light. I don't drain the filter housing often either and can't say that I have ever see water when it was emptied. Usually fill up at 2-3 stations.

 

[2broke2smoke]

never with my four ... father in laws 2 ... freinds 5

 

[rbattelle]

75k, never had a WIF light.

Always fuel at the same station (same pump, too). 10% biodiesel.

I have 2 water collection bowls (factory and Stanadyne). Drain both about every 3rd or 4th fillup. Never see any water come out.

Ryan

 

[PToombs]

208k miles, usually fill up at 2-3 places. Never seen the light on, never had water at a filter change. Don't hardly drain the water seperator.



Just jinxed myself, huh? :-laf

 

[GaryOwen]

Almost 500k on two trucks and never had WIF light.



Have aux tanks in both. Have F/W separator on 03 (3 micron) followed by an additional filter (2 micron). Cut both apart last time I changed them (about 40k miles on them) and found the F/W separator to be very dirty, but no signs of water. Filter was relatively clean.



Did have some gelling or icing problems last winter (ULSD) and noticed some cloudiness in fuel sample once. Had to add some PowerService 911 once and it seemed to clear the fuel up. Don't know if 911 contains alcohol or not, but was desperate at the time.



Recently added Arctic Fox Inline Fuel Heater to 03 and hope this will keep the gelling/icing problems at bay this winter.



Gary

 

[juicedcummins]

Had water so bad twice the truck would hardly run. Drained the water out couple of times and no more problems. These were right after a fill on a remote bush location both times and less than a 100yds from the pump. The water in fuel light just doesn't work PERIOD!

 

[Cattletrkr]

329K between my two CTD's and never a light.

 

[steved]

Hmmm, I would wonder if my assumption of the OE fuel system on the 2nd and 3rd gen trucks is correct??

steved