"it might be that the high pressure of the 'high side' is very high" might be.... can you say 1668-1740 psi ? so your advice is to put a filter on the high pressure side of the pump, unless that pressure is too high for the filter. Have you actually done this? alistair On 9-Jun-10, at 4:44 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote: > here's what I think might be a very good idea ... > and inline filter on the pressure side of the PS pump going to the > rack. > There is a filter screen in the bottom of the res.. > but that only filters ATF coming back from the rack. ( so it > protects the > pump from the rack failing ) > but there is no protection against the pump failing and pumping > junk into > the rack. > > check out a FLAPS, or truck places .. > an inline ATF filter is a common add-on for Automatic Transmissions. > that way you could pump some juice into your rack , and be sure the > pump was > not pumping metal into it or whatever. > > it might be that the high pressure of the 'high side' is very high, > or too > high for an inline filter , so consider that for sure. > |
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