To me it just creates more opportunity to **** air and just creates a weak link in genral. I could be wrong but I dont ever recall seeing a filter being between the tank and pump on any vehicle from the factory.
I always run a filter between the tank and pump to keep trash out of the pump. Never had anything **** air because of it and don't see how that's even possible. All it takes a flake of rust or something to get stuck in the wrong spot and the pump is junk. Unless it is one of the bolt-together jobs that can be taken apart and cleaned.
My work truck was doing the same thing.Number 6 plug was bad all new plugs runs fine now..............
maybe if you take the white trash motor and trans out and make it ford these problems would solve themselves
It shouldnt **** air (meaning it wont **** gas with the smallest leak)as long as you keep your (extra) connections tight. If you have that much trash coming out of your tank you will be changing a lot of filters until you get that tank cleaned or changed anyway. I do like the sock on the pickup inside the tank idea tho.
Ethanol also causes aluminum to corrode. It will degrade older mechanical fuel pump diaphragms too. I ***ume they have different material for the diaphragms in new pumps. As has been said, it is a very good idea to put a filter before the pump. The factory puts a sock type nylon screen on the pickup tube in the gas tank. When gasoline was changed to unleaded, the material in those screens swelled and blocked flow. Instead of pulling the tank, we usually removed the line at the pump and blew air back into the tank to blow the filter off. Then we installed an inline filter in the line before the pump. Mechanical pumps can produce a good vacuum to pull fuel through a filter. Almost every piece of equipment I've worked on, has a primary filter before the pump and a secondary filter after the pump.
I had never heard that before,If that is true I can see where that issue has caused a lot of headaches over the years.
damm rob a "white trash motor"? that is some real **** talk from a new guy, sounds like it's time for him to post some pic's of his stuff because i can say your stuff is far from being "white trash"! sounds like you were having some issues related to filters and that ****ing fuel does all kinds of **** to the fuel lines and what a pain.
Well , I looked closer at the filter that was in line before the pump. Looks like the plastic/metal screen wasn't coming a parts as I thought. I'm wondering if it's comming from whats in the tank.
THERE'S Your problem, I would check upstream as well, some of that gunk/filter may be in your carb too. MrC
sounds to me like you may have an air leak somewhere, not enough fuel pressure to keep the carb primed...oh and ford's don't like cheby stuff, its like oil and water
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