The Ford Barn

Jack '29 Sport Coupe · 10-26-2010, 08:04 AM

I was over at my friend's house the other day and watched as he installed his carburator after cleaning out the mesh micro filter that disolved as a result of todays fuels. What a mess. He told me that he was going to put
in an inline filter instead. Soooooo, I opened the rumble lid on my coupe and
pulled out my spare filter and told him to try it instead----no need for clamps, no need for hoses to splice into the fuel line, no need to cut the line, etc., etc.... A lot of guys on the barn know the filter I'm talking about, but for you newbies it's the NAPA filter P/N 3039 that sits in the glass sediment bowl. Of course it doesn't work for you guys with the sediment bulb, lol. What I like about this filter is that once it is installed
there is about an inch of space between the bottom of the filter and the
glass bowl-----plenty of room to place a small magnet to pick up any rust
particles that the filter might miss. I use a 1/4" X 1: industrial magnet that
grabs onto the bottom of the filter on the metal rim. Pretty neat. My
friend is as "happy as a clam." JMHO

Jack

10-26-2010, 08:04 AM	#1
Jack '29 Sport Coupe Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Cincinnati, Ohio Posts: 798	Fuel Filter I was over at my friend's house the other day and watched as he installed his carburator after cleaning out the mesh micro filter that disolved as a result of todays fuels. What a mess. He told me that he was going to put in an inline filter instead. Soooooo, I opened the rumble lid on my coupe and pulled out my spare filter and told him to try it instead----no need for clamps, no need for hoses to splice into the fuel line, no need to cut the line, etc., etc.... A lot of guys on the barn know the filter I'm talking about, but for you newbies it's the NAPA filter P/N 3039 that sits in the glass sediment bowl. Of course it doesn't work for you guys with the sediment bulb, lol. What I like about this filter is that once it is installed there is about an inch of space between the bottom of the filter and the glass bowl-----plenty of room to place a small magnet to pick up any rust particles that the filter might miss. I use a 1/4" X 1: industrial magnet that grabs onto the bottom of the filter on the metal rim. Pretty neat. My friend is as "happy as a clam." JMHO Jack __________________ Cincinnati, Ohio Last edited by Jack '29 Sport Coupe; 10-26-2010 at 09:25 AM.