I had to look up K cup, I live under a rock. We just have a Mr coffee and I grind the beans in the morning and I figure that is about as fresh as you get if you like the taste of fresh ground..
Probably would come into play if the filter were mounted 10 feet higher than the engine. That bit of sarcasm is not meant to be hateful. I think your okay without swapping the valve, that said you'd be fine to swap it because you change your filter regularly..
What usually happens is a PO has tied wires to it. As you know it's stiff so get the correct replacement and work it up to the helm.. clear All things that might be connected to it or you will have additional problems.
I feel your pain, we had a steel bridge very similar here in spring city, problem was US 27 was 4 lanes and the old bridge over piney River could not accommodate. It's been gone a good while and I miss it.
Never had one but I guess you had a bad experience. My neighbor liked his, I almost bought it and probably should have, it was old and had a good merc 6 on it, he traded it for a pontoon since he has grandkids..
Yea, I had to Google it too, I see a fundamental problem with keeping the nozzles from clogging.
The concept is good but distilled water would be the only way for it to be useful for any length of time.