In-Line Fuel Filters. What do you use?

[natemoen]

What kind of fuel filters do you use. I cant seem to find any small enough to fit in between the petcocks and the car T without putting tight bends in the fuel lines.

Nathan

[XSokieSPECIAL]

I use a couple of these......



Lawn mower filters..............

Right up a couple inches from the octy. If your not running the octy they will fit pretty easily if you run the lines from the left petcock to the right carbs (3 4) and the right petcock to the left carbs (1 2)

[MaximPhil]

Hi Natemoen,
There you go. Complete answer in one post within 15 minutes What a site!
Thanks XSOKieSpecial
Maxim Phil

[Ivan]

Nothing. There are screens in the towers of the petcocks. Unless they fell out, in which case, you probably don't have reserve. Anything that makes it through the float valve in the carbs will most likely settle to to bottom of the bowl.

I think the PO put screens on my 79, which I haven't removed yet, since they haven't caused a problem. But if I ever replace the lines, they are gone.

Usually the first contaminate based failure on these is the idle jets getting plugged. From the dozen or so sets I have seen its usually that brown gunk from the gas drying out over time that builds up and causes them to plug. On one of the bikes we were working on in KC last weekend, the gunk had gotten all the way into the needle seats. Kinda looked like sand, but was more like paraffin wax when rubbed between the fingers. So, long story short, its usually the dissolved solids in the gasoline that gunk up the carbs from my experience. No filter is going to catch that.

[XSokieSPECIAL]

Well Ivan......

You'll either blow the engine or crash the bike before a problem arises anyway.

NOPE......we aren't gonna let up.

[Ivan]

Well, Greg, that's cause I don't ride like grandma.

Still amazes me that we have thirty year old bikes that we can thrash around mercilessly and they just keep going. Still nothing like them on the road.

[XSokieSPECIAL]

Well, Greg, that's cause I don't ride like grandma.

Still amazes me that we have thirty year old bikes that we can thrash around mercilessly and they just keep going. Still nothing like them on the road.

Agreed Bro'

[XSokieSPECIAL]

Hi Natemoen,
There you go. Complete answer in one post within 15 minutes What a site!
Thanks XSOKieSpecial
Maxim Phil

Ok.....now that's taken care of it's HIJACK TIME.............


What have you wrecked THIS week Ivan?

[trbig]

I cant seem to find any small enough to fit in between the petcocks and the car T without putting tight bends in the fuel lines.

Not sure about the routing if you're still using that spaghetti looking mess with the octo, but either way, you may be able to run the lines from one petcock side to the opposite carb T. This puts a much more gradual loop into the line and may give you the room you're looking for to get a filter in there.

Don't listen to Ivan about no filters. When you have to take carbs off every other week due to blowing up a motor or crashing, there's not time to gunk a set up.

I don't know which is worse though.. having to remove them for his reasons, or having to remove them because you tried to BURN that crud out of them..


Tod

[Elevener]

I have been using none also, but just ordered these from mikes

[trbig]

Elevener, those look like a good option. A lot of times, thos filters need to be either between the intake boots, or pod filters, and being flat, they'd fit a lot better than the round filters.


Tod

[XSokieSPECIAL]

I like the looks of those also. How much $ did they cost?

[tinman905]

I have been using none also, but just ordered these from mikes

There's a thread about those filters . There wasn't anything much good said about them. Many experienced them leaking shortly after using them. Be careful using those filters.

[dbeardslee]

I run the Napa FL 3027's on my '79 standard. Fuel lines are crossed under the tank, and I have found that the metal filters hold up better than plastic. I had two different type of plastic filters that I tried - both types were deformed by the heat. They still worked, I just didn't like the way they looked. Also, the napas use a metal screen element as opposed to paper. Paper elements do not like water, and if they absorb water from the gas they'll plug up pretty quick. Here's what the napas (made by wix) look like -

[Guy_b_g]

Originally Posted by Elevener
I have been using none also, but just ordered these from mikes

They melt...not from the heat either...from the gas (or the ethanol in it).

I nearly burnt up my riding mower using one.