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Originally Posted by Ernie Vitucci
Good Evening and welcome...Regarding the pencil filter...Model A's don't like them as pointed out above. What an 'Old Guy' taught me 50 years ago was to put a good strong magnet in your glass filter bowl on the firewall...not to use the cast iron filter bowl. The magnet should be about the size of a quarter dollar six or seven times as thick. It will attract what is coming out of the tank...and you will be able to see the build up on the magnet...that way you will know when to clean the fuel bowl and the magnet...very simple and old school...but damn it...it works! Ernie in Arizona
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Good tip. The only downside is with no pencil filter rust/grit can get into the shutoff valve (on As with the shutoff on the bottom of the tank)which scores/ruins the valve. I have heard of putting a strong magnet into the tank, with a removal chain attached to the magnet on one end and attached to the filler neck on the other end. One downside to this method is either attaching the chain to the spark arrestor or not using the arrestor.