Does a 2.5 on a twin tank skater need a slosh tank?

**Stealth Assassin** · 06-12-2007, 03:58 PM

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**RONNIE** · 06-12-2007, 05:44 PM

yes it should have it

**Alan Power** · 06-12-2007, 06:54 PM

Ronnie, hope I'm not asking a dumb ass question, but why?

**beer30** · 06-12-2007, 07:42 PM

2.5 need to have a supply and return, it is true EFI. Feeds the engine and the extra fuel goes back to the slosh tank. Chuck

**Alan Power** · 06-12-2007, 08:12 PM

Originally Posted by beer30

2.5 need to have a supply and return, it is true EFI. Feeds the engine and the extra fuel goes back to the slosh tank. Chuck

Ok, thanks for that

Was just curious!

Alan

**BUZZIN' DOZEN** · 06-12-2007, 08:17 PM

Bypassed mine never had a lick of trouble, and I run in some pretty sloppy water.

Save some voltage and just run 1 tank/fuel pump.

Jeff

**Redneck** · 06-12-2007, 08:18 PM

Is it an EFI motor? He he askes about a 2.5, but says nothing about an EFI. When I get my 280 on my boat, Im not going to run a slosh tank, just a return line to the front of the tank. Going to have a sump in the bottom rear for the pick-up, and just run the return to the front on the tank.

**BUZZIN' DOZEN** · 06-12-2007, 08:27 PM

In rethinking this, w/one motor, slosh tank might be the way to go to keep fuel load balanced without having to have pickup and return manifolds to split between the twin tanks, but thats the only reason I'd run it.

Jeff

**zx14** · 06-12-2007, 08:38 PM

I have a 300x and it has no return line.

**beer30** · 06-12-2007, 09:13 PM

Originally Posted by zx14

I have a 300x and it has no return line.

The 300X is not true EFI, it has a throttle body. The way I understand it, it has a tank on the engine that holds the fuel it doesn't burn. Chuck

**pyro** · 06-12-2007, 09:33 PM

The "Laser" and 2.4/2.5 200 EFI's, as well as the 3.0 EFI motors, have their own vapor separator on board, which serves as the slosh tank for the EFI loop.

**1BadAction** · 06-12-2007, 10:07 PM

for a twin tank, yes, for a single tank boat used in mainly calm water its overkill. K.I.S.S.

http://www.diamondmarine.com/web_pag...l%20System.htm

**Propster** · 06-12-2007, 11:50 PM

I disconnected the slosh tank on my 21 Skater. Had a bad experiance when one tank went dry and I could not get it to re-prime. 3 hours dead in the water on a windy day keeping it off the rocks with 20 gallons of fuel that I could not get to the motor. I figured out what I did wrong later, but I never hooked it back up.

**Hottrucks** · 06-13-2007, 06:17 AM

Are you going to tell us so we're not stuck???

**Shaun Torrente** · 06-13-2007, 07:07 AM

You should put a slosh tank in only because you can not comfortably run the boat under a 1/3 tank on both sides... Since the tanks are not baffled ina skater and there is no sump it will suck air into the system and cause the engine to surge... I have not put one in my 21 yet but i feel it is the right thing to do

Shaun

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