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    Orange fuel/Water?

    Dump the filters, put clean fuel in and try again. Hopefully injectors not messed up. Run it! But don't let primary fill up and get to secondaries on engine before dumping again. Your wallet would know if the fuel is ethanol free. In Florida it's called Rec 90 at about $6.00/gallon last winter...
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    Do you fill the tanks for the winter?

    It was Startron that I added. Most likely ethanol had adsorbed water but not to the point of separation. The Startron pushed it over the top and it separated out.
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    phase separation

    Water Alarms I'm not sure what the water alarms "see" when the water is mixed with a significant about of ethanol. The density or conductivity may be more like fuel than water and not trigger an alarm. I know on my boat I didn't get an alarm - the engines started running like crap and...
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    phase separation

    There are several problems with the ethanol / gasoline combo if enough water gets in. The image on the right is what my fuel looked like when I dumped the filters. Fuel was cloudy - an emulsion of gasoline and the separated out ethanol / water. If allowed to sit a minuite you could...