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Re: Rust, gas, carbs, trouble...and oil filter

To: Blake Wylie <bwylie@hiwaay.net>
Subject: Re: Rust, gas, carbs, trouble...and oil filter
From: mmcewen@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca (John McEwen)
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 23:24:02 -0500
Hi Blake:

Put the filter where your friend suggested.  It's easy to install and to
service.  Then buy a bunch of filters and be prepared to change them
frequently.  I have the exact setup on my B and it works well.

John McEwen



>Ok...I've got rust in the fuel tank.  It's going through the lines up to the
>float bowls in my SUs where it is causing my car trouble.  It will run fine
>for a while then cut out.  All I usually do when it cuts out is to restart
>it.  It will run fine for a while longer until it does it again.  I believe
>that the rust is causing it.
>
>Now...possible solutions:  Add a fuel filter.  I don't have a fuel filter on
>my car.  It is a 1970 model car.  Can I add one?  Where?  A non-lbc guy
>looked at my engine (just a friend), and he thought I could put it on the
>line that runs into the first float.  He said I could get a plastic 5/16ths
>filter and cut the line, and put it on.  I will probably need to drain my
>tank, and filter the gas back in, and keep doing that until the gas clears
>up also.
>
>Now...is that an alright place to put the filter on?  Can it be done (I know
>it can...but what do you think?).  Can I add it now and replace that line
>later to get the filter off?
>
>Any options and opinions are welcome.
>
>Also...I have the hanging oil filter.  I picked up an inverted style filter
>thing for only $15 from a guy who works on LBCs.  Should I replace the
>hanging adapter and put the inverted one on there?  I was going to anyway
>(for convenience, and to go ahead and plug up a leak down there...killing
>two birds with one stone), but I read one of those tips in Moss, and they
>said that the inverted adapters are bad on the engine.  Should I worry about
>this?  Or should I go ahead and replace it?
>
>Well...options and opinions are wanted here also.
>
>Thanks in advance.  :)
>
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