In line fuel filters?

[fields_mj]

Can somone tell me where where I can get some cheap in-line fuel filters? I'm going to try to clean out my tanks, and I want to add an inline filter so that I don't plug up the one under the hood. A part number, or a really good description would help because I'm not sure what size hose barbs I need either.

Thanks,
Mark

 

[Simp5782]

Wix number is a 33971. I have one mounted just as soon as the line comes off the frame into the pump. Its a 1/4" fittings on the filter but the 3/8 hose on the truck will clamp down on it. Just add a small piece of 3/8 to the frame side and go directly into the pump with no bend.

 

[BioFarmer93]

NAPA, 5/16", get two. In order from the selector valve will be a 30micron, then a 10 micron. Do you run an electric fuel pump? If so then place the 30 between the valve and the pump, and the 10 after the pump. If using the OEM lift pump then replace the vertical hard line between the lift pump and filter head with fuel hose and splice in the filters with the one with the larger micron rating closest to the pump. You will have to purchase a couple fittings from the hardware store for this method.

 

[MIDNIGHT RIDER]

I thought the DRAW-lines on these trucks are 3/8"; at least the ones on my truck are.

If you are meaning the simple see-thru plastic filters, I use them immediately ahead of the lift-pump.

They are available everywhere, even WALMART, for about three-bucks apiece if you shop around.

I buy them in bulk at swap meets for 3-for-$5.


I also highly recommend you add a GoldenRod unit ahead of everythingelse in the system.

You can see through a GoldenRod, drain it, remove the bowl and rinse it out, all without spending a penny.

A GoldenRod will pay for itself in less than a year from money saved on replacing the main filter.

 

[fields_mj]

I'm still running the original stock lift pump. I may go to an electric lift pump next year though. I've heard that they work a little better for running WVO blends.

I thought they were 3/8 also, but I can't remember. My original thought was to just do a golden rod and I may still do that. I haven't had a chance to climb under the truck lately and look around to see what it will take to add one before the lift pump. I'm thinking that it would be a lot simpler to add it between the lift pump and the fuel filter, but like I said, I haven't looked yet. If that's the case, then I'll probably add the golden rod, and put the in-line filter just before the LP. Just trying to make a plan right now. Sounds like I really need to look under the hood and under the truck to see what I really want to do.

Thanks,
Mark

 

[jonathan]

I thought the DRAW-lines on these trucks are 3/8"; at least the ones on my truck are.

If you are meaning the simple see-thru plastic filters, I use them immediately ahead of the lift-pump.

They are available everywhere, even WALMART, for about three-bucks apiece if you shop around.

I buy them in bulk at swap meets for 3-for-$5.


I also highly recommend you add a GoldenRod unit ahead of everythingelse in the system.

You can see through a GoldenRod, drain it, remove the bowl and rinse it out, all without spending a penny.

A GoldenRod will pay for itself in less than a year from money saved on replacing the main filter.

whats the part number for a godlenrod

 

[leftcoastjeff]

Diesel filter

This may be overkill but it looks like a great value.

http://www.jmesales.com/item/110124/Cim-Tek-3-4-Pump-Filter-Kits.aspx

LCjeff

OBTW Biodiesel will clean the tank (and everything else), or so I have read.

 

[fields_mj]

whats the part number for a godlenrod

Goldenrod is a brand name, so the part number will depend on what model you get. 1" or 3/4" pipe threads, and what kind of filter element you want in it, it all effects that mfg part number. You can get them at most auto parts shops, as well as most farm supply shops and Amazon and Ebay. Just do a search for Goldenrod.

 

[fields_mj]

OBTW Biodiesel will clean the tank (and everything else), or so I have read.

Exactly. Thus the need for a cheaper additional filter.

 

[leftcoastjeff]

This?

Goldenrod

http://www.jmesales.com/item/134158/Goldenrod-Fuel-Filters.aspx

Both are 10 Micron. The other one is a little bigger and a little less $$,

http://www.jmesales.com/item/110124/Cim-Tek-3-4-Pump-Filter-Kits.aspx

LCjeff

 

[jonathan]

do you guys think it would be ok to weld a mounting point to the top

 

[Exekiel69]

The clear shell goldenrod is great and comes both with or with out water separator. You need a pressure gauge on the fuel bc the filter will starve the system if You don't change the element when it got enough water.

 

[MIDNIGHT RIDER]

do you guys think it would be ok to weld a mounting point to the top

Lack of a mounting bracket is about the only draw-back to a GoldenRod.

What I do is to take a length of +/- 3/16 flat bar, maybe 1-1/2 wide, I bend mounting "ears" at each end and bore holes through them, such that the 3/4-NPT fittings just barely pass through the holes.

Electrical lock-nut thingies threaded onto the fittings, one each side of the bracket, lock the GoldenRod onto the bracket at the desired position.

Of course, I drill screw-holes in the flat stock wherever needed for mounting to whatever surface.


I like a ball-shut-off valve on both sides of the filter so that I can cut-off the flow of fuel when messing with the filter.

The valves can also be employed as an anti-theft device.

 

[leftcoastjeff]

me thinks not

do you guys think it would be ok to weld a mounting point to the top

"Zinc die-cast top cap"for the goldenrod or cast iron or aluminum for this"

http://www.jmesales.com/item/36196/Cim-Tek-Fuel-Filter-Adapters.aspx

perhaps 2 brackets on the pluming out both ends, kinda like the hands in this smiley

Don't like the idea of something plastic hanging, rattling, cracking instead of denting.

I'm having considerable trouble finding a premade bracket, this may be an opportunity for some clever person to make a buck.

LCjeff

 

[MIDNIGHT RIDER]

Another mounting option is to weld a mounting bracket onto one of the steel NPT components that will get screwed into the GoldenRod.


The reason GoldenRods don't have an integral mounting bracket is that their original intention was to be connected into rigid plumbing coming out of industrial/agricultural storage tanks.

I bet if they knew how many of us were actually using them in trucks, they would make a mount-base that had integral mounting ears, or include a simple pre-made bracket such as I already described.

I have been using them on trucks for years and am highly confident in them.