I went retro on my 90 GL wit ha mostly stock engine. I wanted the fuel pump to never see any rust from the tank or grunge from bad gas or vandals putting something in the tank that wasn't spozed to be in thee. I found a Wix metal(part number escapes me right now) filter at my local parts place and it works fine as a prefilter. Obviously I use the factory metal filter after the pump as well. I added a "gas shut off valve" upstream of the Wix filter in the line to make the filte chaning a lot less"fluid". It also doubles as a interesting theft deterrent should I park in a dicey neighborhood on occasion. I simply turn off the gas valve and if the would be theif runs off with my van, he or she will get maybe a 1/2 mile or less before the engine staves itself of fuel and dies for no apparent reason. Yeah prolly a bit extreme, but effective. DM&FS
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Bill Witz <pbwitz@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > My 84 never had a small filter in front of the fuel pump, just the large > round > one after the fuel pump. I have not had any problems with this set up in > 280,000 miles. The original fuel never did fail I gave it to my Dad and he > installed it on a wood splitter it still works as well. So I guess the > fuel > pumps are pretty tough. > > Bill Witz 84 Tiico > |
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