Heres how I added an additional fuel filter that reuses the engine oil filter.

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Ok you feed your close to $1500 i.p. and injectors with a used oil filter.
You do you bro.
I'm good.

Just figure I'm the uneducated person who is not taking your advice.

Yea a $1000 truck will allways eat raw fuel, anything you feed it.
Yes you can slave lake an idi.
Yes you're right.

Sorry to have tried to enlighten you.

Remember indadesert...
He was helpful too..
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Any mod that thinks this is harsh, please axe it....
Who said anything about raw fuel? Its being filtered multiple times. Obviously its not cleaning as well as a centrifuge would, as evidenced by the stock filter clogging so easily, but i dont have the space to set up a centrifuge. So I have to use other methods for now. Do you not understand that I am adding this filter in front of the lift pump as an additional filter capacity so that the stock filter doesn't clogg so quickly? Also I dont even have to reuse the engine oil filter after an oil change if i dont want to, I can just buy a brand new filter from the store. After all the primary purpose of adding this filter head was to use a cheaper filter than the stock ones which run about 30-40$ for a motorcraft fd3375.
 

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would like to upgrade to the holley red lift pump that I have read about.
You might want to rethink the Holley. They are made in China. The Reds have been known to be having problems for a couple of years now. I just replaced my blue that quit working after only a year. After that, I gave away my brand, new Black and warned the guy to not trust it for long.
 

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No. I first filter through 3 polyester paint filter bags in a 5gal bucket directly into a 55gal barrel, 10->1->.5 micron. That barrel has a pump with a 10 micron filter on it which i then pump into the auxiliary tank in my truck bed. The auxiliary tank pump also has a 10 micron filter on it which then gets pumped into the truck. So it goes through 5 filters before ending up in the trucks tank.
Ok, so how have you been plugging the factory 12? micron fuel filter?
I am not against using wmo, just needs to be filtered as good as you are capable of, maybe this is it?
I have seen wmo used at every filtration level, and the consequences from doing so. A good multi-stage process (before adding it to the truck tank) will minimize pump problems....but wont prevent them. Advance piston sticking is the first problem most people have, then wont start hot (on clear diesel), injectors do all kinds of cool stuff, but can almost always be pulled apart and be cleaned. Then comes the engine oil consumption and hard starts.
like I said, I have nothing against folks burning wmo, and it is totally worth it if you put in the effort in filtering, and are capable of working on the truck (pump and injectors as well) yourself.
Just dont fool yourself or tell anybody else its free, cause it isnt. Thats all I will say about that,
 
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You might want to rethink the Holley. They are made in China. The Reds have been known to be having problems for a couple of years now. I just replaced my blue that quit working after only a year. After that, I gave away my brand, new Black and warned the guy to not trust it for long.
Yes as I'm understanding the newer Hollys mfg in last few yrs don't last.
I got a Holly Red on now that was EBay bought about 12-13-14 yrs ago & installed & still runs, luckly. Also have a Holly Blue thats been installed for several yrs on another rig & it still good.
When they finally go out I don't know what to do.........Maybe that'll be in about 2035 or 2040 & I'll just finally give in & go buy a NEW Ford truck...........

Wait a minute,,,,,, What was I thinking? MAGIC CARPETS!!!!! With all this new AI cr@pp everyone be driving Magic Carpets in another yr or so!!!!
Actually up town about 3 blocks before Safeway they building a new Dealership Sales Lot that my neighbor told me is supposed to be new Magic Carpet Dealership, but he didn't know what Name it be called....????? LOL LOL
 

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Ok, so how have you been plugging the factory 12? micron fuel filter?
I dont know. That's why im adding this extra filter in front of the stock filter. I've been using the motorcraft fd3375 which is 10 micron. I ordered some wix equivalent filters to try those out, 2 for the price of one motorcraft. Its part of the experimentation
 

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Just dont fool yourself or tell anybody else its free, cause it isnt. Thats all I will say about that,
I know its not free for everyone, but it essentially is for me. People are willing to pay for pickup of large quantities of used oils around where I live. That money I use to buy RUG for the dilution. As well as there are also people selling super cheap and giving away free "contaminated" gasoline and diesel (ie someone putting diesel in there gas vehicle or vice versa). Even if what im doing burns up the injection pump and injectors every 50k miles as that guy is so concerned about, the math proves that it so much cheaper. Ive already driven this truck on 5k miles and other than the filters clogging it hasn't skipped a beat.
 

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Davco 382 w/heat (coolant)and a 2 micron fleetguard filter this is what works for me 2000 7.3 50% WMO 50% diesel 85,000 miles so far
 

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Davco 382 w/heat (coolant)and a 2 micron fleetguard filter this is what works for me 2000 7.3 50% WMO 50% diesel 85,000 miles so far
I had considered that filter, primarily for the heating aspect, but then I saw the price tag and said "ouch". If i find cheap used one I might try it out also. BTW im running 85-90% wmo though
 

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