5 Fuel Filters are not necessary!
Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2023 7:07 am
Well, when you think of it, first, the mesh in the tank filler tube, for things like corn cobs and peanut husks. Then the mesh filter in the tank, perhaps a typical 100 Micron filter. Then to my Facet, which has a small 74 micron mesh inside the actual pump, then to a small canister just after the fuel pump, and finally to another metal canister just before the carb.
I have since considered this "overKill", and removed the one just before the carb, and installed a new nylon/plastic Wix in-line filter just after the fuel pump, which, looking at it yesterday, is full and clean after about a 3 mile test drive.
I have spent hours thinking about this fuel filter thing, looking over sites with different ways to do so. I have decided that mounting a screw on or canister filter back low under or by the frame rails would make it susceptible to damage by rocks and things thrown up by the front tire. And on the unlikely time I am off road, damaging such with an off-road mishap. I doubt I will venture Far off road nowadays anyway. Been there, winched out of that in the past.
So for now, just going with my clear Wix and keeping several in my truck, and hopefully that will fix my recent stumble and hesitation because I could not see how fouled and clogged the former metal canister was.
Oh, by the way, I have just about completed a different filtering system for the big parts washer we got from the nearby US property disposal yard for our trucks we keep at the airport hanger. The military grade filters for our "Heavy Weapon's Cleaner" are about $600 a set, typical and not necessary for us and our grimy truck parts.
hal
I have since considered this "overKill", and removed the one just before the carb, and installed a new nylon/plastic Wix in-line filter just after the fuel pump, which, looking at it yesterday, is full and clean after about a 3 mile test drive.
I have spent hours thinking about this fuel filter thing, looking over sites with different ways to do so. I have decided that mounting a screw on or canister filter back low under or by the frame rails would make it susceptible to damage by rocks and things thrown up by the front tire. And on the unlikely time I am off road, damaging such with an off-road mishap. I doubt I will venture Far off road nowadays anyway. Been there, winched out of that in the past.
So for now, just going with my clear Wix and keeping several in my truck, and hopefully that will fix my recent stumble and hesitation because I could not see how fouled and clogged the former metal canister was.
Oh, by the way, I have just about completed a different filtering system for the big parts washer we got from the nearby US property disposal yard for our trucks we keep at the airport hanger. The military grade filters for our "Heavy Weapon's Cleaner" are about $600 a set, typical and not necessary for us and our grimy truck parts.
hal