This is a new one...

[earlbrown]

It wasn't even restricting my flow. I only lost 1 pound at idle (as read by my sealed liquid rail gauge, so it's within the SWAG)

I do believe I have my supra pump/hanger mods/ground mods sorted out!

Needless to say I still have some fine rust in my tank and now my fuel filter has a couple super magnets on the outside

[SuperSix]

Eek.. What brand is that? Does that matter? :p

[84 BuickGNYorkPA]

Hmm, I never cut my fuel filters open.... how did you manage not to create a spark? Look at that filter, there's got to be a better product on the market, no? Thanks for sharing!


Chuck

[Scott87]

Could probably cut it with a can opener...  Or a pipe / tubing cutter...

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[earlbrown]

I cut it open with tin snips. You can't use an abrasive to open up a filter as it defeats the purpose.

Not sure on the brand. It was a micro-guard or some house brand.

I have to give that filter credit. It started to collapse, didn't pass any unfiltered fuel and didn't choke off my fuel supply.

[daveismissing]

On a lathe Chuck! C'mon
I like the pipe cutter- most safe

[Old Buzzard]

I use the Powerhouse filter cutter....

[Steve Wood]

I am glad you are older than me...when I wake up in the morning and my legs don't wanta work and it hurts to straighten up, I think of Chuck and elevate my aspirations to survive!   Everyone should have a filter cutter...more useful than a cigar cutter

[84 BuickGNYorkPA]

I think I should change the filter out now that I saw this thread, it's been a couple yrs already.


Chuck

[Steve Wood]

I would guess that most of us should

[Scott87]

Did mine last summer when I installed my detchwerks fuel pump..  Figure only have about 6 to 7 k on the filter..

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[earlbrown]

Dropped the tank a few days ago to replace/inspect my pickup sock...


Turns out I had a SHITLOAD of rust sediment in the bottom, the pickup sock has to be clocked to clear the factory baffle, gas with rust flakes taste like shit AND has the benefit of being crunchy.


This expidetion started as my car was running out of gas way to early and I was having a hard time maintaining solid A/F ratios. Turns out my pump was installed so the pickup sock was hitting the plastic baffle and curling up. Damn thing could suck air with the tank 1/2 full.

Dremeled off the tit from the float level and reclocked the pump...     Right as I was about to put everything together I grabbed a paint stirring stick and did a depth measurement of the tank.

I transferred the paintstick to my pump hanger and was very surprised to find over 1/2" clearance from the bottom of the sock to the bottom of the tank(top of the baffle). How is it 2012 and I'm just now learning that GM handicapped my fuel system in this way? Surely to dog I'm not the first person to figure this out 26 years later???

  Granted I have a Supra pump, but I used the hangers factory stop location assUming it was in the right place. Boy was I wrong. Loosened off the clamps and lowered the pump so it just barely doesn't touch the tank and WOW what a difference!  Based on the tank dimensions that 1/2" of clearance is 1.82 gallons of gas I just couldn't reach.

When I dropped the tank my car was sputtering in the driveway running out of gas. While I had the tank out I siphoned 1.5 gallons out. I reinstalled the tank without the 1.5 gallons and had rock solid fuel pressure. (not to mention my pump is going to run cooler being submerged an extra 1/2")



How to cut the filter open with tin snips...   This time the media wasn't collapsed.

[$1987 GN$]

Just as a note the reason the pickup is not at the bottom of the tank was to stop from picking up water/moisture and sediment from there which used to be quite common in fuel sad to say. Which in return would cause other issues.

All the new pumps I have seen have filter systems now.

How many times when you were filling up have you seen someone drop the pump nozzle on the ground? 

Mind you this was when these cars were dd.


AJ___