A couple or three months ago, I took my gas tank to the local radiator shop who,
in turn, sent it out to a place in Canada that sealed the inside and outside of
the tank, with a silvery-grey coating. It's now guaranteed for the life of the
car
not to rust. I still could get sediment in the tank, no doubt, but hopefully, my
days of getting stuck 38 miles from nowhere because of a rust-choked fuel filter
are over.
Dave Friedlander
'74 TR6
"Robert M. Lang" wrote:
> On Tue, 20 May 2003, R. Ashford Little II wrote:
>
> > The AMA, American Moron's Assoc., has found that changing your fuel
> > filter makes your car run better. Apparently, funk & gunk in the
> > aforementioned filter make the can run "not good." So, for those
> > occasionally challenged folks out there - like me, who might even have
> > the clear fuel filters that "look" clean, you may want to change your
> > fuel filter as part of the springtime ritual.
> >
> > Car run good now.
> >
> > R. Ashford Little II
> > www.geocities.com/ralittle2
>
> This reminds me of a situation I had a few years back. I replaced the
> mechanical fuel pump in the street car with a small Facet "solid state"
> unit. The Facet unit has 1/8 NPT inlet/outlet ports, so I used a 1/4
> nipple to 1/8 NPT in-line fuel filter. It worked great for about 4 years.
>
> I had a couple of guys drive my car at an autocross toward the end of the
> year. They were all Spitfire drivers, so the idea of driving a TR6 was
> appealing even if just out of curiosity. They all had a blast and were
> quite happy driving a car with so much grunt (compared to a Spitfire).
>
> A few days later, I drove the car to a friend's house about 40 miles away.
> The car was way down on power. SO, when I got home I started doing all the
> usual stuff, checking the timing, dwell angle, looking at the spark.
> Everything seemed in order.
>
> Then I decided to check the fuel flow. I pulled the line from the front
> carb and turned on the fuel pump. It was trickling out. Hmmmm. I pulled
> the stock filter out and checked the flow there. Hmmmmm. So I decided to
> check the flow at the electric fuel pump. Dribble... I pulled the line off
> the inlet to the fuel pump - lots of flow (this was gravity at this
> point). Aha! I pulled the inline filter and replaced it (it's a $1 or $2
> part). Bingo - plenty of fuel to the carbs.
>
> Just for the heck of it, I tapped the filter on the work bench to see what
> might come out. I literally got about a tablespoon of flakey rust bits out
> of that sucker. Considering how small the filter is, I was quite amazed
> that the car ran at all. Amazing.
>
> I took the car out for a test ride. The power difference was enough that I
> nearly spun the car out on an entrance ramp to a highway. Yee-ha!
>
> I'd love to get those guys that drove the car back to try it again. I'll
> bet thier autocross times would drop significantly. Or they'll find out
> that this car has taillights that are faster than the headlights.
>
> Now back to the usual stuff.
> rml
> AMA Lifetime Member :-)
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