how are you all mounting your inline fuel filter? where do you have it located? I'm thinking about placing it inside the frame rail near the back.
CK5
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inline fuel filter
- Thread starter wazzabie
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What year truck, i.e. carbed, TBI, etc?
On my carbed truck I just moved it from the carb to the vacuum side of the fuel pump, but of course y'all TBI people have the fuel pump in the tank.
-- A
78 k5- it is carb
jonathon
1/2 ton status
The filter on my K5 is in a crappy place for the time being.. right passed the pump off the hard line. Not sure how I'm going to change once I replace my fuel lines but I'm going to keep it in the engine bay where it's easy to get too... I absolutely hate dealing with crawling underneath vehicles to do the fuel filter, always get gas all over myself 
It's even worse then it gets passed your belt.. gas on the hootus is not a good feeling
It's even worse then it gets passed your belt.. gas on the hootus is not a good feeling
I had the fuel link leak from the line to the pump. It was spitting fuel out onto the block. So I'm very weary about where I place the fuel fillter. The inline filter on the carb is not all that great.
Yeah, though some people seem to have had them work, I've found the one on the carb inlet to be nothing but trouble. I leave them and their spring out and go with an external one.
I was running hard line from the fuel pump to about halfway up the block, and then rubber line to the carb, with the filter plumbed in there, but my carb guy pointed out that the rubber line was decaying quickly from the heat. It was less than a year old and was already starting to bulge and crack ... scary!
His advice, which worked out nicely, was to do two hardlines from the fuel pump up to the carb, and put a coupler in the middle to allow for some flex. He also said to put the filter on the vacuum side of the pump right there up front. The hardline also keeps the fuel cooler, which is apparently a good thing.
So far, I've not had any leaks and I'd almost claim a slight seats-of-the-pants improvement in throttle, but that could be phase of the moon =))
I figgered that having the filter up front in the frame rail would be mildly annoying to change, but even with that giant 2WD crossmember in the way, it was fairly easy to get to. I just put a rag to soak up the gas that spilled, which wasn't much.
I s'pose another option would be to go to an electric fuel pump,
-- A
I was running hard line from the fuel pump to about halfway up the block, and then rubber line to the carb, with the filter plumbed in there, but my carb guy pointed out that the rubber line was decaying quickly from the heat. It was less than a year old and was already starting to bulge and crack ... scary!
His advice, which worked out nicely, was to do two hardlines from the fuel pump up to the carb, and put a coupler in the middle to allow for some flex. He also said to put the filter on the vacuum side of the pump right there up front. The hardline also keeps the fuel cooler, which is apparently a good thing.
So far, I've not had any leaks and I'd almost claim a slight seats-of-the-pants improvement in throttle, but that could be phase of the moon =))
I figgered that having the filter up front in the frame rail would be mildly annoying to change, but even with that giant 2WD crossmember in the way, it was fairly easy to get to. I just put a rag to soak up the gas that spilled, which wasn't much.
I s'pose another option would be to go to an electric fuel pump,
-- A
Ideal would be to have the mechanical fuel pump used as is, some how get a fuel line filter placed in a safe spot and have an electric pump as back-up. My tank is rusted and I think I was destorying my fuel pumps from some of this rust. Anyways I've replacing all the fuel system, carb, tank, fuel lines and am going to do this right. But having a back up electric pump would be a really cool setup.
