I had a radiator/fuel tank shop cut it open and take the line and filter
out-----left the filter off and re-welded (they did) the tank.
tom
> [Original Message]
> From: <Awgertoo@aol.com>
> To: <ronfineesq@earthlink.net>; <Healeys@autox.team.net>
> Date: 7/25/04 4:58:06 PM
> Subject: Re: fuel tank filter
>
> In a message dated 7/25/2004 4:50:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> ronfineesq@earthlink.net writes:
> Just a question. How does one remove the fuel tank filter at the end of
the
> pickup without cutting open the tank? The fitting at the outside of the
> tank is a right angle fitting so you can't just push something stiff down
it
> to punch a hole in the filter so is there some other way to open up the
> filter without opening up the tank?
> Ron--
>
> Since I had already determined that I was going to install a filter
between
> the tank and the pump I cut the hard fuel line at approximately the apex
of the
> wheel arch. This allowed me to unfasten the fitting at the tank and
withdraw
> the pickup for removal of the screen.
>
> I did all this as part of installing a back-up NAPA fuel pump upstream of
the
> SU so I have flex hose going from the filter to the NAPA to the SU. It
is a
> neat installation and easily accessed by removing the left rear wheel.
>
> BTW, the filter built into the SU pump needs also to be checked for crud
as
> it does not have that great a junk capacity.
>
> Best--Michael Oritt
>
>!
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