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Re: Fuel filter and spillage

To: MKatzHOPE@aol.com
Subject: Re: Fuel filter and spillage
From: Brian Sanborn <sanborn@net1plus.com>
Date: Mon, Feb 14 2000 10:23:16 GMT-0500
Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net

>What, if any spillage will occur during the removal and cleaning of the glass 
>fuel filter on a 1959 TR#?
>

You will get a bunch of gravity feed spillage if you are not prepared with 
something of the right diameter.. I think it's 5/16.  Ask me hoe I know?

I would recommend that you install a fuel shut off valve in the rubber tubing 
just before the short input pipe to the fuel pump.  cut the tubing and shove in 
the valve in the off osition.  You will be doing this again and it makes it 
easier next time.

I used the plactic valve (black body and magenta knob) that is used on garden 
tracters and snowblwers

I also shut off this valve when the car is left for a while.  It cuts down on 
the gasoline smell that you get from the fuel pump because there isn't the 
weight of 10 gallans of gas on the fuel pump diaphram.  It is also a mild 
security deterent when parking the car in a strange place.  It only runs for 
about 100 feet before quiting.

Brian Sanborn
'62 TR4 CT16260  Groton,MA
TR4 Website www.net1plus.com/users/sanborn/home.html


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