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Just for clarification, I am still running the filter at the gas tank. But now that the tank is clean, I am not have the issue with the sediment overwhelming the filter. Also I am using "The Mother of all Filters" which has a huge pleated surface area compared to those normal small pleated filters. I believe this was off an aviation application, and is about the size of a soup can.

Thanks Big Kev! That was my next question, shall I insert one just in front of the tank? The type that has a line in out the top, and line out the bottom, lying on it's side? Do you have a pic of your set up?

The float looks good, but am curious about filters....figger I'll have to run a while and get around to going through the carb soon.....

There is a lot in my project blog that would apply to your car as well as mechanically they are very similar.


But here is a picture of my setup, now I also have a backup electric pump by the tank as well for priming and vapor lock situations. But 99% of the time, I am just running off of the original mechanical pump.

This first picture shows the difference between a typical standard fuel filter that you can at most auto parts stores and the one I am running, that Jim was kind enough to provide to me.

The second picture shows the previous filter and the electric pump installed inside the frame rail. This is basically how my setup looks now, but with the larger filter in it's place. The small screen filter worked well when the car was in the garage, but as soon as I started moving and the gas sloshed around in the tank and broke loose rust, that filter would leave me stranded because of the small surface area it had. But now since I have had the tank media blasted inside and out and the coating baked on, I don't have any issues. Plus that large pleated filter provides an enormous about of surface area for anything that does get in the tank in the future.

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Looks great! Thanks again! Where does one find the big filters?

If you have a clean, coated tank, then I think the Fram G3 will serve you for many years with no issues. The large filter came from Jim in AZ, and his buddy sources them for some type of aviation application. Thats about all I know.

Though perhaps not as large as the one BigKev has, Jeep Cherokees (in some or perhaps all years) used an extra large size gas filter. Have your auto parts store show you one and decide.

Jim in AZ? I am in AZ too! But for the time I will check on the Jeep ones, and I might have one (Fram G3) in the back of the Barracuda? Will look....