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So you want a fuel filter?

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Check out my fuel filter.:eek: Bought from Z1 less than a year ago and only used about 700 miles - check out the before and after photos. No more fuel filters for me.:hand:

http://z1enterprises.com/detail.aspx?ID=293

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I'm with Chef, what's wrong with it? Is it bent a little from the engine heat?

I use a fuel filter, but I don't use those "little" stone ones. I use a larger paper filter bowl one that's made for lawn mowers I think.

Works well, and doesn't starve the carbs..
 
Knowing you Ed the tank is as clean as the bike and you don't even need one. :D
 
hmmm sits under the tank and gets hot. Heat shapes plastic. Looks normal to me. I would be scared if it was metal . Did it keep the junk out of your carbs?
 
Sorry Ed. I was trying to be funny. Didn't mean to start a rally.
 
hikermikem said:
I'm with Chef, what's wrong with it? Is it bent a little from the engine heat?

I use a fuel filter, but I don't use those "little" stone ones. I use a larger paper filter bowl one that's made for lawn mowers I think.

Works well, and doesn't starve the carbs..
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Does it look like this?
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I had one of those small ones on my CB750 and I did a real hack job re-running the fuel line so the filter was too close to the engine-block. Wondered why I wasn't getting fuel to the carbs one day while I was driving and when I reached down and pinched the filter it pulled apart like silly-putty..hah...live and learn.
 
You guys are more trusting than me; heat caused the body to bend like silly putty and the plastic is degrading as evidence by the color change.

Gas scares me so not interesting in having this cheesy filter routing fuel on my bike.:hand:
 
I had one of those for just about 150 miles and it deformed just like Ed's. I replaced it with a 5/16" paper type filter from z1 (because the original started leaking being only 1/4") and this one didn't deform after 1500 miles. no idea why ???
 
That's the same filter I run. They will deform like that over time, and I've had one pull apart, the nipple break off, when taking the fuel line off before.
 
i was using one of the paper ones last summer. it fit on all snug. was out riding the bike when all of a sudden flames were every where.but im still using one , once i get her running again that is.
 
The little crack forming on the outlet side is also quite worrisome.

Also note that there is not one speck of mung actually caught in the filter. The petcock screen is actually a very good filter.
 
I'm embarrassed to admit, but I will anyway, that I can remember installing an additional filter on only 1 of the 45 bikes I've had during my 35+ yrs of riding. I guess I've been pretty lucky. None the less, I do believe in their importance. I've just been too lazy to deal with one.
 
bwringer said:
The little crack forming on the outlet side is also quite worrisome.

Also note that there is not one speck of mung actually caught in the filter. The petcock screen is actually a very good filter.
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Mine actually does have some flakes of crud in it, but probably only because I don't have a screen on my petcock. When I bought it I got the right bolt spacing, but the screen was too big to fit into the slot in the tank so I just pulled the screen off and run an inline filter. To be dealt with at some future point.
 
As Brian alluded, the petcock has a screen filter already. It doesn't filter out the super fine particles but then again, the brass stone filters don't either. Guess that's the thing, a filter that will really keep the crap out is going to be restrictive in the line, which is not a good thing for a gravity feed system. I'm going sans additional filter from now on.
 
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