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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

if the arrow is pointing towards the carb then yes

arrow is pointing back towards the fuel pump -

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.

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?

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

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

edoh wrote: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.

Oh, its beggered up me diagram

It was over engineered anyway!



TANK

FILTER ↓

PUMP

(on mine)

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.

Thats the one - cheers!

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

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

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

edoh wrote: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 (?)

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?') -

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