Re: Fuel filter element

Posted by Mr.Pushbutton  On 2007/4/23 6:18:32

PV-8, I have cleaned those ceramic fuel filter elements by blowing compressed air in the opposite direction of the fuel flow (from the inside out) and gotten them quite clean. I used to work at an electronics manufacturing company that had an ultrasonic parts cleaner, for removing flux from circuit boards. I used to clean my ceramic filter element in that cleaner and they came out looking like new!
At that time I had a situation on my hands where my gas tank was quite rusty inside. I was getting a lot of fine rust particles in the pores of the filter element, which was doing its job nicely. What I didn't know was that my lower chamber of my fuel pump was filling up with the BIG rust particles, so much so that one day I couldn't get the car to go more than a mile without conking for lack of fuel. I took the fuel pump apart and the bottom chamber of the pump was filled with brown rust chunks, it looked just like the basket of a coffee maker before you dump it out. I took this to mean that I also had to do something with the tank. After having the tank re-nu process everything got better in a hurry, no more conking out and I didn't have to clean the filter elements as often.