<VV> Fuel filters, the other point of view

[tkalp at cox.net]

Having seen way to many old VW bugs with a burned engine cover, I too would recommend no hoses on fuel lines in the hot Corvair engine compartment.  However there are several replacement fuel filters out there that use flared fittings . . . like the Turbos used only without the return line.  To me that would be the best of both worlds.

Terry Kalp

---- Clark Hartzel <chartzel at comcast.net> wrote: 
> On my way home from the CORSA convention in Buffalo, I had a fuel filter
> plug up with crap I probably shook loose by running in the autocross.
> Fortunately a previous owner had installed the filter just inside the
> firewall in the engine compartment with spring clip clamps.  It was a 2
> minute job with a pair of pliers to remove the old one and install a new
> metal filter and I was on my way again.  If the filter was under the car
> behind the gas tank, I would have had to jack the car up and crawl under it
> to change the filter.  Of course the filter being the lowest point of the
> system would have leaked fuel out until I could wrestle the new one onto the
> hoses.  Call me a new convert to filters in the engine compartment.  Much
> easier!
> Clark Hartzel
> 
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