Water in fuel

calidies · Aug 13, 2016

Let me start of by saying I'm new to all this. 97 7.3 powerstroke xlt. When I start the truck up the water in fuel light comes on and stays on for 5ish minutes or so.. but then it goes off. It's probably fine but I just wanted some other opinions

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purpleheart350 · Aug 13, 2016

Drain the fuel bowl. Yellow nob on back of bowl. If it does it again change fuel filter. If it still does it, change fueling stations.

Justin@DP-Tuner · Aug 15, 2016

purpleheart350 said:
Drain the fuel bowl. Yellow nob on back of bowl. If it does it again change fuel filter. If it still does it, change fueling stations.

This..

Does it do it every time you drive the truck?

calidies · Aug 18, 2016

Justin@DP-Tuner said:
This..

Does it do it every time you drive the truck?

No it does not. My buddy told me to put some seafoam in the tank so I tried that out and I haven't seen the light since

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Justin@DP-Tuner · Aug 18, 2016

calidies said:
No it does not. My buddy told me to put some seafoam in the tank so I tried that out and I haven't seen the light since

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Probably just got some bad fuel then.

calidies · Aug 18, 2016

It was chevron though that's why it confused me

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TyCorr · Aug 18, 2016

That doesn't preclude them from an idiot truck driver, bad tanks, or someone leaving the cap off and water getting in their ground tanks.

purpleheart350 · Aug 18, 2016

I was down under 1/4 tank so I went to a shell station where I had always filled up all my diesle vehicles. Well I was filling up my fuel cans first (heading out to our deer lease, always have extra) I noticed that it waset the normal diesle green. Well after the diesle foam cleared out I noticed a lot of sediment floating around and starting to collect at the bottom. Thankfully I didn't stick that in my truck first. Come to find out the holding tank had dirt in it. They ended up having to replace the tank.