Hi Blake,
My $.02 is that you should buy a bunch of the plastic, semi transparent
fuel filters. Put one in the rubber hose where it loops forward then
backward to the front carb. Set it forward, away from the manifold as far
as possible. By watching the solids accumulate, you will have some idea
what sort of metal flake is loose in the tank. It's also easy to change
there.
To protect the pump, a filter would need to be installed on the suction
line between pump and tank. It protects the pump, but is hard to get at
when it plugs up, so if that happens on a busy route you may not want to
slide under the car to change it. There is supposed to be a filter in
the line entering the pump, but the screen is often missing.
The objection to the inverted oil filter is that the oil drains from it
when the engine is stopped, so the filter must fill before pressurised
oil gets to rotating parts. The hanging filters did not have this
disadvantage. If I had the hanging filter, I would not change to the
inverted type.
Bob
On Tue, 16 Dec 1997 20:26:06 -0600 (CST) Blake Wylie <bwylie@hiwaay.net>
writes:
>
>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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