Ok everybody, the babes look great, fantastic, but, as my wife tells her students who flake off subject, lets get back on task.
I went to the dark side two years ago and bought a couple Kawi 1100 STX's. (I did so because Kawi's usually use Doo's for trailers. lol) Back to task Joey!
In my case, Kawi's have a stock in-line 3" clear, plastic barrel type fuel filter installed adjacent to the carbs.
On my first trip to the River this year one of my STX's had a slight hesitation problem. At WOT, in calm water, it would not get above 30 mph, however, when the water was turbulent it would easily get past 40+.
Anyway, I figured the problem lie in the fact that I had stale gas by forgetting to put gas stabilizer in the tank last October, so, to facilitate correcting the problem. I dropped a can of Sea Foam in the gas tank. Since I only had a few hours left on the River I don't think the Sea Foam had time to cure the problem, so I figured when I get home I will change the in-line fuel filter.
My thinking is that my in line fuel filter is bad, so, since that is an easy task to perform I called my local Kawi dealer to get one. When he told me the price was $38 and I replied the price was outrageous, he retorted: "the filter is also a water separator," thus the reason for the high price."
That sounds like baloney to me. IMO, wouldn't all filters act as "water separators?"
Does anyone know?
As pointed out in the first post on this Thread, Dr. Honda related that Sea Doo's have a "water separator," but not a in-line fuel filter which is the subject of Dr. H's Thread. Maybe Kawi is right and Marine filters are built to perform both tasks?