fuel filter direction?

[edoh]

if you had a fuel filter in your engine bay (i know i know -) - (i 'inherited ' mine )-

in the picture below - is the fuel filter arrow - pointing the right way?

the hose behind the filter is the one from the fuel pump -
and presumably it would need a 'fuel jubilee clip'?



all info - always useful -

edoh

[jason k]

if the arrow is pointing towards the carb then yes

[edoh]

arrow is pointing back towards the fuel pump -

[tinman]

You don't need a filter there?
There should be one like that under the van just after the tank.If you insist on having it then the arrow indicates the direction of flow.

[edoh]

thanks -
i was aware of the engine bay filter arguement - i just wanted to know whether the one in the photo was pointing the right way? - the filter has an arrow on it - the arrow is pointing backwards towards a mechanical fuel pump - the black hose behind it is going from the pump to the filter - is filter pointing the right way?

[CovKid]

You running yours on milk or is the filter that colour. If so, gold top or semi-skimmed?

[tinman]

Gold-top silly it'd pink on semi-skimmed

[very_bland]

thanks -
i was aware of the engine bay filter arguement - i just wanted to know whether the one in the photo was pointing the right way? - the filter has an arrow on it - the arrow is pointing backwards towards a mechanical fuel pump - the black hose behind it is going from the pump to the filter - is filter pointing the right way?

As far as I'm aware the arrow goes with the fuel flow, so on mine I have the filter between the tank and the pump, the arrow points to the pump :


------------------------ Front of van

---------
I I Fuel tank
........


o ↓ Fuel filter


[] Fuel Pump


......................... Rear of van


So if your filter is after your pump, then it's arrow should not be pointing towards the pump.

[very_bland]

Oh, its beggered up me diagram

It was over engineered anyway!



TANK

FILTER ↓

PUMP

(on mine)

[Damien]

Fuel pipe comes from tank into RH of engine bay into filter, then onto pump at front of engine, then out of pump and up to carb.

[edoh]

Thats the one - cheers!

as for running on milk! if only! what with the price of petrol these days...

[T'Onion]

go and get 8 metres of good quality fuel line and a new filter and 5 s/s jubilee clips ,rip out that filter and all the old fuel lines right back to the tank ,

job done

brickyard sell the fuel line
HERE

[edoh]

hey up - thanks for the big picture -
thats gone to the top of the 'to be sorted' list -

[very_bland]

hey up - thanks for the big picture -
thats gone to the top of the 'to be sorted' list -

I'm doing exactly the same tomorrow! Got all the bits today! Hopefully she'll run a bit better then!


Make sure you put the filter in the right place (before the pump).

Might be worth swilling the pump out in some fuel too (?)

[edoh]

sounds good -
hope your work goes well -

any chance of the odd photo or step by step procedure as you go along? - be ruddy useful for the rest of us queuing up behind the same job -

just in case you missed another wiki gem ('wicked gem?') -

https://club8090.co.uk/wiki/Fu ... Fuel_hoses" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;