The Fix.........A Self-inflicted problem as I thought
While on the road I purchased a new Racor water separator filter while in Billings Montana but I waited to install it until I got back home or would do so if I had performance problems such as low / no power pulling log steep grades because we were running the Mountains for 6-7 weeks from Glacier to Santa Fe at the time.
We had no such performance problems on the road, so when I arrived back home and I addressed this very long cranking situation and installed the new Racor water separator filter ..... and did it CORRECTLY this time.
This video pretty much sums what I did in my haste changing the filter
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I think that if you don't install the square cut seal on the stem on the bottom it won't cause a losing prime long crank starting issue it's when you get creative like I did and install the seal on the top as described in this video where it's not supposed to be that cause the losing it's prime issue.
Anywho I installed the new Racor filter as described and correctly and it now fires right up, be it cold 37 deg or hot 86 deg
( you get that weather all in one week here in the midwest right now LOL) and also tested sitting for days...in 3-5 seconds cranking time it's running.
Thanks to all that contributed to this thread and other threads also.
Happy Trails