Best and safest fuel filter to use?

[33 IMP]

O.p. hasnt been seen in a month and a half, and we still dont know what kind of fuel system he wants a filter for. I guess he didnt need help real bad.

 

[ckessel]

Just an FYI. No matter how good the filter is that you end up using, rust WILL get by the media and cause all sorts of carb issues. However, if you use a steel filer you can put one or more small magnets on it to capture the rust. The trans pan magnets that were used in the 413/604/606/500/518 etc trannies is about the outer diameter of the filter plus there is a hole in the center that the fitting can poke through. Another thing to do at the opposite end, the tank, is to drop in one or more cow magnets in the tank. Pull the filler neck out, use like a 3/4" or larger diameter hose for the magnet to slide through and drop a couple in the tank at different areas. This will grab more of it before the fuel and rust combo head down stream. I did this too on my 29 Chrysler to catch the crud in the tank. Cow magnets can be had at feed stores. They are about the size of your pinkie.

 

[RJRENTON]

Just an FYI. No matter how good the filter is that you end up using, rust WILL get by the media and cause all sorts of carb issues. However, if you use a steel filer you can put one or more small magnets on it to capture the rust. The trans pan magnets that were used in the 413/604/606/500/518 etc trannies is about the outer diameter of the filter plus there is a hole in the center that the fitting can poke through. Another thing to do at the opposite end, the tank, is to drop in one or more cow magnets in the tank. Pull the filler neck out, use like a 3/4" or larger diameter hose for the magnet to slide through and drop a couple in the tank at different areas. This will grab more of it before the fuel and rust combo head down stream. I did this too on my 29 Chrysler to catch the crud in the tank. Cow magnets can be had at feed stores. They are about the size of your pinkie.

For those of us that live in the city/suburbia, what is a COW MAGNET???.....never heard of such a thing. I've heard of RARE EARTH MAGNETS, ALNICO MAGNETS, ELECTRO MAGNETS....but not cow magnets. And once these magnets are installed, how they are removed for cleaning?
BOB RENTON

 

[toolmanmike]

A cow magnet. It looks like a big medicine capsule and is swallowed by the cow. It attracts metal objects like nails and such so the cow doesn't get sick or injured from the foreign objects.

 

[RJRENTON]

A cow magnet. It looks like a big medicine capsule and is swallowed by the cow. It attracts metal objects like nails and such so the cow doesn't get sick or injured from the foreign objects.

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Interesting......isn't something like this a "self cleaning" device and apparently "reusable". If the cow injests sharp metallic objects, which are attracted to magnet, wouldn't this cause problems upon exiting the cow? But....if several are added to the fuel system, how they re-covered? Since most automotive fuel tanks are terne coated (Terne metal, an alloy of lead and typically 10 to 15 percent tin, is used to coat steel sheet in order to produce a strong, corrosion-resistant product that is widely used for automobile gasoline tanks, packaging, roofing, and other uses where lead's favourable properties exist) although many now are non metallic (polycarbonate?) that does not rust. Anyway, thanks for the education.....
BOB RENTON

 

[Fran Blacker]

Interesting......isn't something like this a "self cleaning" device and apparently "reusable". If the cow injests sharp metallic objects, which are attracted to magnet, wouldn't this cause problems upon exiting the cow? But....if several are added to the fuel system, how they re-covered? Since most automotive fuel tanks are terne coated (Terne metal, an alloy of lead and typically 10 to 15 percent tin, is used to coat steel sheet in order to produce a strong, corrosion-resistant product that is widely used for automobile gasoline tanks, packaging, roofing, and other uses where lead's favourable properties exist) although many now are non metallic (polycarbonate?) that does not rust. Anyway, thanks for the education.....
BOB RENTON

Probably magnet is long so a nail or a long ferrous metal object would end up parallel to the magnet upon exit. Wonder if they retrieved them, not me.

 

[toolmanmike]

Interesting......isn't something like this a "self cleaning" device and apparently "reusable". If the cow injests sharp metallic objects, which are attracted to magnet, wouldn't this cause problems upon exiting the cow? But....if several are added to the fuel system, how they re-covered? Since most automotive fuel tanks are terne coated (Terne metal, an alloy of lead and typically 10 to 15 percent tin, is used to coat steel sheet in order to produce a strong, corrosion-resistant product that is widely used for automobile gasoline tanks, packaging, roofing, and other uses where lead's favourable properties exist) although many now are non metallic (polycarbonate?) that does not rust. Anyway, thanks for the education.....
BOB RENTON

The magnet and metal stays in the cow.

 

[ckessel]

They are quite strong. Drop them in at least two areas of the tank and away from the float/pickup.

 

[RJRENTON]

The magnet and metal stays in the cow.

Having zero bovine experience, other buying steaks, rib roasts, milk and other dairy products, etc, what prevents the magnet and any collected materials from passing thru? As what appears to be copious amounts of "biodegradable agricultural slag" produced, there appears to be no conscious selection on what gets "emitted" or retained......sort of "what goes in must come out, less losses" (to paraphrase the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics).......
BOB RENTON