EMD_DRIVER
Say what?!?!
Since I now get to work in our locomotive shop a couple times a week, I'm taking the opportunity to make-up a second fuel filter mount for my 7.3. I got a filter head out of a junkyard early 6.9 and plan to use the less expensive 6.9 spin-on filters in my 7.3.
I'm leaving the factory filter head in the truck and mounting this one somewhere else (Yet to be determined) I have no idea what year the 6.9 was, but it's mount was aluminum. It had been broken off at the base, but it will still work just fine. I cut about 5 inches off the original mount, to make it only about two inches tall. I also took a scrap piece of 2 inch steel and made a mount for the head itself. It is nice to have access to grinders, a chop saw and a drill press! I drilled two holes in the filter head and two more in the steel. Since where I drilled the holes in the filter head was rounded, I drilled the holes in the steel slightly larger apart. I didn't want to break the aluminum, when I tightened the bolts.
I need to find a place to mount this thing. I've been considering putting it near the electric fuel pump, which is just ahead of the FSV. I haven't decided yet. I still have to get the ball joints, u-joints, door handle cable and driver's side window fixed first!
I'm leaving the factory filter head in the truck and mounting this one somewhere else (Yet to be determined) I have no idea what year the 6.9 was, but it's mount was aluminum. It had been broken off at the base, but it will still work just fine. I cut about 5 inches off the original mount, to make it only about two inches tall. I also took a scrap piece of 2 inch steel and made a mount for the head itself. It is nice to have access to grinders, a chop saw and a drill press! I drilled two holes in the filter head and two more in the steel. Since where I drilled the holes in the filter head was rounded, I drilled the holes in the steel slightly larger apart. I didn't want to break the aluminum, when I tightened the bolts.
I need to find a place to mount this thing. I've been considering putting it near the electric fuel pump, which is just ahead of the FSV. I haven't decided yet. I still have to get the ball joints, u-joints, door handle cable and driver's side window fixed first!